Bobby Browns “Don’t Be Cruel” turns 35 this month

[Ol’Otis]

Don't Be Cruel is the second studio album by American singer Bobby Brown. It was released in the United States on June 20, 1988, by MCA Records. MCA changed producers for this album and had Brown work with hit-making songwriting and production duo Babyface and L.A. Reid. Brown dedicated the album to his deceased best friend James "Jimbo" Flint who was stabbed to death when Brown was aged 11.Don't Be Cruel incorporates new jack swing, R&B, funk, dance and soul

New Jack Summer: In June ’88, Bobby Brown, Teddy Riley & New Edition Announced the Arrival of R&B’s New School

The summer of 1988 felt like the beginning of an era in R&B: New Jack Swing didn’t sound like the smooth soul or the digital funk of your aunties and uncles. It sounded like what the kids were…

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[@OffHalsted]

Non Skip Album /Perfection

 

[Ol’Otis]

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

The King of R&B before Jacquees

 

[Ol’Otis]

The King of R&B before Jacquees

It’s too early for ur shyt
I’ll deal with you in a few hours

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

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[murksiderock]

Absolute classic album!

 

[Sbp]

Album was a tour de force

 

[General Mills]

Non Skip Album /Perfection

Bobby had the airwaves on lock with that album. Non stop hit after hit

 

[Piff Tannen]

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Prelude and Reprise are underrated as far as what they bring to the album

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

EDIT: double post

 

[King Poetic]

Dude lived good off that album

Because his other shyt was trash

 

[Jean toomer]

Had the cultures on lock. I remember I saw a Chinese guy in greenwich village dressed like Bobby Brown doing the running man to ‘my prerogative’. I was literally

 

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Was just playing this. It’s crazy how back then, you’d have an album with 5 hits in a row. No filler. Even the tracks that weren’t singles, were great.