Twenty-five years ago today, New Edition alum and future domestic abuser Bobby Brown released his second solo album, Don't Be Cruel. Moving away from the bubble gum pop of New Edition and his debut solo album, Brown took the music world by force with Don't Be Cruel, racking up five Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 -- the title track (#8), "My Prerogative" (#1), "Roni" (#3), "Every Little Step" (#2), and "Rock Wit'cha" (#7). The album sat atop the Billboard album chart for six weeks in early 1989 and on top of the Billboard R&B albums chart for a total of eleven weeks at various times between September 1988 and April 1989, helping earn the album the #1 spot on Billboard's Year-End album chart for 1989. It has now sold over 7 million in the U.S. alone.
Don't Be Cruel also helped kickstart the new jack swing genre, and within a couple years, fellow New Edition alums Bell Biv DeVoe, Ralph Tresvant, and Johnny Gill would all post Top 5 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and multi-platinum-selling Top 20 albums on the Billboard album charts.
For the video I'm choosing, it was a tough decision between "My Prerogative" and "Every Little Step" because I like both songs. Since I already did a Retro Video of the Week with "My Prerogative" back in the year the world ended, I'm going with "Every Little Step." Enjoy. And don't do hard drugs.
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