When 'Don't be Cruel' bum-rushed the pop charts in 1988, it looked as if Bobby Brown had single-handedly rewritten the rules of contemporary R&B. He certainly wasn't the first singer to take advantage of New Jack Swing's blend of hard hip-hop beats and smooth soul crooning – Keith Sweat had by then already cracked the R&B charts with "I Want Her" – but Brown turned the sound into a...

Brown, 35, was just released from a DeKalb County, Georgia, prison on Monday, where he served sixty days for a probation violation. He headed to Massachusetts where he told Judge Paula Carey...

Brown, 35, had previously been sentenced to sixty days in the DeKalb County Jail in Georgia for a probation violation that had...