{"id":78382,"date":"2017-01-26T23:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T23:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2017\/01\/26\/clash-titans-new-edition-story-finale\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:42:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:42:16","slug":"clash-titans-new-edition-story-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/clash-titans-new-edition-story-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"CLASH OF THE TITANS: The New Edition Story Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CLASH OF THE TITANS: The New Edition Story Finale<\/strong>By Dominga Martin<\/p>\n<p>January 26, 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-New-Edition-Story-poster-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-93519\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-New-Edition-Story-poster-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 20, 1988. Two albums drop: NE Heartbreak and Bobby Brown\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Be Cruel.\u201d In hindsight, it seems like a cold move. However, at this time, New Edition is at the top of their game, and there\u2019s no other competition\u2014so if you\u2019re going to rule the charts, might as well be with your boys.<\/p>\n<p>When Night 2 of The New Edition Story left off, the new New Edition, which now includes Johnny Gill has just been informed that Bobby will join them on the tour. The group finally has the potential to make real money: $30 million dollars. Both N.E Heartbreak and Don\u2019t Be Cruel are multi-platinum, and Ricky Bell, Michael Bivens and Ronnie DeVoe are at the inception of becoming BBD. They would all gather for 80\u2019s hit video show: BET\u2019s Video Soul, for what will go down in history as the \u201ctension interview\u201d and the world would see they were unraveling. In public. Egoes were clashing. However, hey still tried to give NE one more run. 6 years later they would make \u201cHome Again\u201d a highly anticipated album with all 6 players: Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph and Johnny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BBD_Dominga_Word-to-the-Mutha-Video-Shoot_OP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-94416\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BBD_Dominga_Word-to-the-Mutha-Video-Shoot_OP-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During this time, my cousin Charlita Brown and I had formulated our dance duo, entitled Roxbury\u2014inspired by the neighborhood we grew up in. We had picked up the work ethic of New Edition and rehearsed everyday, for no reason at all, except an opportunity to finally join New Edition on Tour. We were just little girls inspired by New Edition. We thought their blueprint to success would be ours. The opportunity struck when Bobby\u2019s younger sister Carole (AKA Coupe) was working on her first album, and his older sister Tina would start her own music company: Big Sixx, in which she\u2019d have several artists launch on the Home Again Tour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Charlita_Dominga-Rehearse-HomeAgainTour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-94417\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Charlita_Dominga-Rehearse-HomeAgainTour-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Charlita and I, this was a long awaited dream\u2014growing up, we had followed in the footsteps of New Edition with our own group: Female Force. Performing at the Maurice Starr Hollywood Talent Nights. Winning 1st Place. Being invited to Maurice Starr\u2019s studio to record a demo. Being interviewed on local radio stations. However, it would be the Home Again Tour that would open my eyes to a glimpse of New Edition I had not seen. It seemed like the ending of an era. I would watch from the wings of the show and wonder why performance outfits were being recycled from years before [and] why if this was a brand new our had sets not changed? It wasn\u2019t until the tour bus dropped us off in Arizona, and told us to get all of our bags that I realized, this is over. There was no more money to pay our driver for our bus. Bobby had already taken over the payments, but it was not his responsibility any longer. New Edition continued on and I was flown home, back to Atlanta. Shortly after that, the tour ended abruptly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bobby-at-WOrd-To-The-Mutha-Shoot_OP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-94418\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 213 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bobby-at-WOrd-To-The-Mutha-Shoot_OP-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fight on stage with New Edition was never spoken of. It would not be until years later that I realized what happened VIA a New Edition interview \u201cBehind The Music\u201d. It would not be until BET would produce The New Edition Story that I would see what became of my beloved group.<\/p>\n<p>Newspaper interviews were circulating about tensions between Bobby and Johnny during the Home Again tour, which Johnny Gill disputes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what\u2019s crazy? Everyone always says there\u2019s tension between Bob and myself\u2014if there was tension between Bobby and myself, maybe I overlooked something. After the Heartbreak Tour, Bobby would come and stay at my house, I was a little baffled, but he would come hang out and we would just talk\u2026we just bonded,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Me-with-Ralph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-94419\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 216'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Me-with-Ralph-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat guy has a heart of gold,\u201d Johnny continues. \u201cA big, big, big heart [and] what I realized is that he was carrying the bad boy image which he carried for many, many, years. When he used to come to my house and sit down, I would see a guy in tears. I would see a guy who was so humble in a lot of ways\u2026he\u2019d talk about some of the things that he feared\u2014that\u2019s what bonded us. I recognized that when you see him up front and what was going on, some of the actions he was taking, I\u2019d always say: \u2018Who is that guy?!\u2019 We all go through the growing pains and try to figure things out, there\u2019s no blueprint for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the young actors who had to channel the New Edition, as triple threats: Singing, Dancing and acting, their blueprint was simply getting to know each member personally. Woody McClain who portrays Bobby Brown\u2019s duality with superb precision, shares:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Woody-McClain-The-New-Edition-Story.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-94420\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 216'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Woody-McClain-The-New-Edition-Story-300x216.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody thinks that he\u2019s this monster with all this ra-ra-ra, but it\u2019s not that. I was typical, thinking Bobby is just this wild and crazy guy, but he wasn\u2019t. To get to really know him, all his frustration came from the music industry, it wasn\u2019t New Edition.\u201d He continues: \u201cThey gave me a flash drive with everything Bobby. I locked myself in a dark room and watched everything\u2026 from his mannerisms, the way he talked\u2026just everything. That\u2019s what really got me involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Woody-McClain-The-New-Edition-Story-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-94421\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 216'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Woody-McClain-The-New-Edition-Story-1-300x216.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luke James, who learned about New Edition through the lens of Johnny Gill had this to say: \u201cI guess from the outside they were this great group when you saw them perform. They were absolutely excellent, but there was so much going on behind the scenes\u2026a lot of chaos. Honestly, I think this story, what I learned\u2026this story is not about New Edition vs. New Edition, but New Edition vs. the music industry and how they survived [and] all of it was [to just] reach their own goals [but] as young men coming up in this business you can be fighting each other, but really it\u2019s not about each other\u2014it\u2019s this business that makes things heavy, and they really love each other, \u2019til this day. To still be here 33 years later is a blessing in it\u2019s self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Algee-Smith-and-Ralph-Tresvant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-82740\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 202'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Algee-Smith-and-Ralph-Tresvant-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Algee Smith who captures Ralph Tresvant\u2019s charisma wanted a bit of reassurance that he was still fly in stirrups when filming the video \u201cIf It Isn\u2019t Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll day I couldn\u2019t breathe in those stir ups,\u201d he says with a laugh. \u201c\u201cI\u2019m already smooth but to embody Ralph smoothness was something I had to get\u2026Ralph told me to just be myself because I already had it naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Algee already had a connection to a few members of the group before getting the part. At the age of 13, his father played guitar for Bobby, Johnny and Ralph after they formed their group: \u201cHeads of State\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Algee-Smith-as-Ralph-Tresvant.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-94422\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 209'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Algee-Smith-as-Ralph-Tresvant-300x209.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Algee\u2019s biggest take-away in playing in the New Edition Story is: \u201cProfessionalism. Even after everything that was going on, after Ralph losing his baby, going through it with his mom, the pressure fighting with the guys everyday\u2014but every night they were back on that stage with a smile, doing this for the fans, no matter what was going on back stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New Edition Story came full circle for not just the group but also it\u2019s creative team. Director Chris Robinson who got his start in music videos, also directing the smash hit \u201cATL\u201d shared this story:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Algee-Smith-in-BETs-The-New-Edition-Story.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-94253\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 196 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Algee-Smith-in-BETs-The-New-Edition-Story-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIronically enough, my very first concert was when I was 15 years old. 1986. I drove from Maryland to Philly. I wasn\u2019t supposed to drive outside a certain radius, but me and my cousins got into the car and drove to Philadelphia so they (New Edition) were my first concert. Being a kid, going to see guys that kind of remind you of your boys and your crew\u2026is inspiring. I tell everybody I\u2019ve done 30 years of prep for this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Hill who is now the President of Programming at BET was in college radio in 1983. He recalls the first time he heard \u201cCandy Girl.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Urbanworld-New-Edition-Luke-James-Ricky-Bell-Elijah-Kelley-Brooke-Payne-Bryshere-Y.-Gray-Michael-Bivins-Jesse-Collins-Keith-Powers-Woody-McClain-and-Ronnie-DeVoe-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-89410\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 200'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Urbanworld-New-Edition-Luke-James-Ricky-Bell-Elijah-Kelley-Brooke-Payne-Bryshere-Y.-Gray-Michael-Bivins-Jesse-Collins-Keith-Powers-Woody-McClain-and-Ronnie-DeVoe-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is absolutely a dream come true,\u201d he says: \u201cFor someone who was in college radio in Providence Rhode Island, when Maurice Starr walked in with the white label\u2026I remember it so clearly: A 12 inch white label of \u201cCandy Girl\u201d\u2026I was such a Jackson 5 fan, so once we played it, I was like: \u2018Oh, I get exactly what this is.\u201d I never knew 33 years later we\u2019d be having this conversation about a group that has meant so much to so many\u2014so the feelings of bringing it back around\u2014it is one of the first things that I was able to green light when I came into this roll at BET, so it\u2019s just fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Executive Producer Jesse Collins was inspired to create the New Edition Story after witnessing them first hand in preparation for BET\u2019s 25th Anniversary: \u201cI saw the brotherhood: the function and the dysfunction. So I told Mike Bivens: \u2018This is a movie, and this is a movie that\u2019s going shock people.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Urbanworld-New-Edition-Michael-Bivins-and-Actor-Bryshere-Y.-Gray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-89411\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 214 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Urbanworld-New-Edition-Michael-Bivins-and-Actor-Bryshere-Y.-Gray-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most amazing story about brother hood, it\u2019s almost 40 years later, they are still together, they are still on tour, they still look good, they\u2019re still recognizing each other and taking care of each other still,\u201d says Chris Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>The New Edition Story is a full circle moment for a lot of us. For me. For my cousin Charlita who would never admit that she was Bobby\u2019s niece because she didn\u2019t want people to think she was bragging!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is for the world period\u2026for the universe to grab onto,\u201d She says, then offers her thoughts on the project: \u201cIt\u2019s real simple and it\u2019s real plain. Never judge a book by it\u2019s cover, unless you open that book and actually read that book and get every drop of that story, don\u2019t be so quick to judge because there might be something in that story that you missed which may be profound, and at the end of the day, Bob is in the midst of it all\u2026and if something needed to be brought to the light\u2014it may not have been brought to the light then, but it\u2019s being brought to light now that they are living legends and that their story matters and that it can be very instrumental to all our lives. Period. Something that we can all relate to. Period. It ain\u2019t just the hood in Roxbury. This is for all hoods. And I want to say I\u2019m very proud. There was a time when I used to shy away from saying I\u2019m Bobby\u2019s niece, but I will say it now: \u2018I am Bobby Brown\u2019s first niece and we love him.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94256\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Real-Orchard-Park.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-94256\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 203'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Real-Orchard-Park-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Real Orchard Park &#8211; Photo Credit includes Lawrence Dugan, SR and Brown Family Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For those of us who grew up in Orchard Park\u2014which was renamed \u201cOrchard Gardens\u201d over a decade ago\u2014\u201cOP\u201d will always be home [and] the guys have never forgotten where they\u2019ve come from. From shooting BBD\u2019s \u201cWord to the Mutha\u201d video in the projects to Michael Biven\u2019s basketball jersey hanging in The Neighborhood House gym. To Boston\u2019s current Mayor Marty Walsh proclaiming Sunday, January 8th 2017 as New Edition Day. This is a movie that is homemade, with the fans in mind, and it feels like they\u2019ve only just begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLASH OF THE TITANS: The New Edition Story FinaleBy Dominga Martin January 26, 2017 June 20, 1988. Two albums drop: NE Heartbreak and Bobby Brown\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Be Cruel.\u201d In hindsight, it seems like a cold move. 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