Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about Bobby Brown are insane.

He was arrested in the middle of a live performance for violating a lewd act law.

His bad boy influence may have been the reason Mike Tyson dramatically lost his heavyweight title.

He lived in a haunted house in which he claims he had a sexual encounter with a ghost.

He was shot in the knee, watched his best friend get stabbed to death,

and discovered a secret of his mother's by mistakenly using cocaine as an ingredient while making chicken.

He thrust and gyrated his way to the top of the charts in the late 80s and early 90s,

married to fellow pop star Whitney Houston, and made great music.

Unlike that loop I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from

my Melotron called wristwatch overcoat MK2. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights

together forever by Rick Astley. And why would I play you that specific slice of Rickroll,

slight return cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on June 20th, 1988.

And that was the day that Bobby Brown released his second solo album, Don't Be Cruel,

an album that became the biggest in the world at the time.

A true sensation that changed music and Bobby Brown's life forever.

On this episode, Lude Axe, Horny Ghosts, Cocaine Chicken, Heavyweight Champs, Whitney Houston, and Bobby Brown.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. When Bobby Brown was a kid, his father, a construction worker, would tell Bobby and his siblings, a working man is everything. When you got work to do, you work hard, do your job, and go home. Years later,

in 1989, hard work paid for 20-year-old Bobby Brown's new home, a 14,000 square foot Tudor Mansion in Atlanta.

Some said it was the largest house in America

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