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Full Force, New Edition and Brooke Payne (center with plaque)
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(This adventure was originally appear on December 22, 2015)
*What’s up everybody, Bowlegged Lou from Full Force here!! So this accomplished weekend was a admirable one.
The Holiday concert in New jersey at The Prudential Centermost was great. All of our accompany were there to bedrock the date & that they did. New Edition, Patti Labelle, Tyrese, Jaheim & Monica. Crazy line-up, huh?? Everybody dead it with abundant performances.
Me and my admired brother Paul Anthony & his admirable wife aka my sis in law, Michelle forth with my admirable gal pal Ashlee Baldwin & our baby acquaintance & above artisan Joe Jinx Ghaznavi were appropriate guests forth with Busta Rhymes, Eric Sermon, Judge.Mathis, The allegorical articulation of Blue Magic: Mr Ted Mills, Super Songwriters Jacky Affiliate Poindexter & The Poindexter Brothers of Robert & Richard who bound such allegorical hits as “Thin Line Amid Adulation & Hate” by The Persuaders & “Hypnotized” by Linda Jones while co-writing compositions for Tina Marie, Will Smith, Jay Z, Amy Winehouse and The Ojays, amidst others.
WBLS 107.5, the #1 burghal radio base in the country hosted the accident advance by PD Skip Dillard, Shaila, Fred “Bugsy” Buggs, Lenny “Quiet Storm” Green, Deja Vu & actor great, EarthQuake.
OK, let’s cut to the chase. As abundant as we capital to accumulate with Patti Labelle who we had not apparent in ages aback we wrote & produced on her Gold Album “Be Yourself” forth with Prince autograph & bearing as well, we abnormally capital to accumulate with our little brothers New Edition. (We did absolutely angle up with Patti in her bathrobe allowance & she was so blessed to see us afresh as we were blessed to see her too. Alas no Patti Pies backstage. We did see the man who fabricated the Patti Pie famous: Mr James Wright Chanel, admitting and he afterwards sang on date with Patti). Anyway, aback at the FF-NE Ranch >>> Full Force & New Edition’s accord & affiliation go aback 25 additional years back they aboriginal came to New York to comedy us in a basketball bold which never got completed because during bisected time they started to do an impromtu accessory ball & singing achievement on the abuse basketball cloister & admitting they were aloof foolin’ about … the admirers answerable the cloister and that was the end of that.
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Flash Forward years later: we had a rematch that BET sponsored in Washington DC. They exhausted us by luck 55-49 as you will see video highlights of that bold absorbed at the end of this story. What you won’t see is Donnie Simpson who played on our ancillary scoring in the amiss abuse basket. Jeeeez! Afterwards that bold we recruited Biv & Ronnie to comedy with the Full Force All Stars in a alternation of Celebrity Charity Games which we won best of them except back we played adjoin Arsenio Hall & his Police Force friends. They cheated. So Full Force’s affiliation with New Edition began as a basketball affiliation which advance to a abundant & admiring friendship.
All those years we additionally befriended New Edition’s adept choreographer, manager, aesthetic director, acquaintance & generally alleged the 7th affiliate of New Edition>Mr. Brooke Payne. Brooke is additionally the uncle of Ronnie Devoe. He has been with the accumulation aback the actual beginning. His over-seeing the fellas is additionally a airy & absolute one as well. I accept been in a few of those easily all-in adoration circles that Brooke would at times advance afore New Edition took the stage. New Edition in my assessment is 1 of the top 5 R&B vocal/dance-steppin’ groups of all time. Brooke’s finger-tips & foot-tips created the adapt of New Edition’s adept adorned foot-work of a date show. His afflatus has affected every affiliate aback they were little kids till now as developed men. Ralph, Mike, Ricky, Ronnie, Bobby & Johnny.
Brooke Payne
Out of all Brooke’s NE choreographed songs, in my assessment I say his signature gem to me is “If It Isn’t Love.” The attention timing & syncopated in & out movement of the fellas as they bound and braid in amid ceremony other, again basic according allocation calm is artlessly crazy & amazing. The accomplish to that song in my assessment is one of the best depictions of the Brooke Payne adjustment of choreography. (The video of “If It Isn’t love” is absorbed actuality as able-bodied afterwards this adventure additional in the video it is Brooke Payne who makes an actualization in the video as he opens up the video verbally giving a pep allocution & instructions to the fellas)
The day afore the concert, I called/texted Brooke and asked as accepted if we and our peeps can get backstage passes to say what’s up to him & the fellas. He texted back>Done! I additionally told him that Paul & i capital to abruptness & present article to the guys from us to them. From Aeon To Aeon & Brothers To Brothers.
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Hell, I apperceive New Edition has accustomed celebrated industry & fan awards which are great, but it’s not a lot of times, we as artists accord to one another. We accept what we alarm A Full Force Acknowledgment Applique which we present out of respect, adulation and support. So the abutting day, Friday at the concert while in our seats, Brooke texted me and told me that New Edition would be backstage at 10pm afore they hit the date abundant later. We saw Monica, Jaheim, Tyrese annihilate it on date with their performances. Brooke again texted me and said to appear backstage now.
So we went backstage with the hidden in a box Acknowledgment Applique in hand. We greeted the fellas as they were afraid to see us. Brooke again quieted bottomward anybody who was in the bathrobe allowance and he aggregate the fellas about & told them, “Okay guys, Full Force has article that they appetite to present to you.” I started talking by cogent the guys how abundant Full Force loves them. Full Force of advance are added than aloof me and Paul. We accept 6 associates in our accumulation absolute with B-Fine, Baby Gerry, Curt-t-t & Shy Shy rounding out the group.
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Anyhoo… I told the guys that we told Brooke that we capital to abruptness them with this presentation: from aeon to aeon and from brothers to brothers. The 5 of them were animated with acknowledgment as I took out the applique to apprehend the words…. again I said … “Guys back we account you, we additionally account Brooke and we told Brooke that we capital to present this to you all but instead we are presenting this acknowledgment applique to Brooke instead.” Anybody including New Edition started animated with acknowledgment themselves. Brooke was abashed and so bent out-there. (You should accept apparent his face. I beam every time I see the video of what we did.)
I apprehend the agitating and important accolade words on the applique (picture of the applique is beneath afterwards the story) and the words concluded with a P.S. to Brooke: “When are you gonna acquaint anybody that Bowlegged Lou and Paul Anthony accomplished you aggregate that y’all know?? Anybody bankrupt out bedlam and acclamation in Brooke’s honor. Brooke laughed too. Everybody hugged him & we all took pictures. He kept adage that we got him !! He was so beholden & we accepted giving it to him. New Edition has consistently accustomed backdrop to Brooke and acknowledgment him every day all day but we aloof capital to add our little Full Force allotment on the account tip additionally to a man that is absolutely a fable himself.
Ralph Tresvant told me that it’s a acceptable affair that we snuck it in on him because he z(Brooke) is so bashful that he ability of not capital annihilation accustomed to him like that if he knew about it beforehand. And that’s why my name is Bowlegged Sneaky Surprising Lou !!
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Props to you Brooke Payne and backdrop to our little brothers New Edition. We love, abutment and account all of you. May God absolve all of you and your families. Stay in the heights. (Video of the applique abruptness to Brooke is absorbed below. Enjoy. Oh, warning! The little white guy that after and apprehension all-overs in the pictures abreast the end of the video is our acquaintance & above artisan Joe Jinx Ghaznavi who loves Brooke Payne & New Edition as he grew up breakdancing and rapping while belief them. I fabricated his dream appear accurate by demography him backstage and introducing him to his heroes as well.)
Special bark out to Our admired Full Force brother Paul Anthony who celebrates his 3rd year ceremony of his cartilage bottom axis corpuscle displace he went through with me as his donor. Brooke & New Edition showed adulation & abutment back he was activity through his Cancer Champion journey. (PALiveLife.Org) Bark out & Acknowledgment additionally to David Rodriguez, Bill Stephney, Evan White & Kira Ruth of The NJ Pac Aggregation & Broad Market Media team. Enjoy the videos & pics below.
Watch as New Edition (and Brooke Payne) get afraid by Full Force:
New Edition assuming “If It Isn’t Love”:
New Edition vs Full Force Charity Basketball 1988:
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