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SOHH: You spoke about when Bobby left and Johnny Gill and Bell Biv Devoe's successes. Did you ever feel that their solo successes overshadowed yours?
Tresvant: To a degree. Bobby's whole campaign was pretty much the Living In A Dream album, the two dancers, Heart & Soul, I had Bizie B and Mizie Mo those was my kids, those were my boys. We was doing the same thing, the more upbeat clubby [records], what I was listening to everyday. And with the whole swing that it was on nobody was doing that yet, there was no [Janet Jackson's] Control. There was no Teddy Riley. There was nobody doing that so had I came with it I know I would have changed the game. And the group was falling apart at the time... They had went and got Johnny Gill like I said and at the label they said, 'We don't want a New Edition without Ralph Tresvant,' so what happened was I had a meeting. Everyone flew out to Boston and I saw the situation that everyone was going through just personally and I put [the album] on the shelf. I went and did the Heartbreak album. So it didn't overshadow me to the point where I was worried or it bothered me but I did see their success. I did two and a half million records and that's nothing to sneeze at. Bell Biv Devoe had a lot of success because they were doing something that was completely unique and different so was Bobby. So I didn't do the album I really wanted to do I did an album that I had to do.
SOHH: Have you watched "Being Bobby Brown"?
Tresvant: Yeah, I've watched it.
SOHH: What do you think about it?
Tresvant: I think the world is lucky he didn't do "Being Bobby Brown" ten years ago. [Laughs] He's more tame, he's real relaxed. I mean he's still wild, of course.
SOHH: That is relaxed?
Tresvant: That's what I mean by the world is lucky they didn't get to see that six or seven years ago. You know sometime back when he was really about being Bobby. He was a bad boy. He loved being that and he exuded that in everything he did. Don't get me wrong, I know Bobby. Bobby the guy that would stop his car and give a homeless man everything he has in his pocket or help him to a hotel room or something. I know that about Bobby and he has a lot of that to him, but he knows what he's doing. Don't get it twisted, he knows every move he's making. And it's all done purposely.
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