Bobby Brown wishes he had denied Britney Spears a chance to cover one of his classics.
The R&B and New Jack Swing veteran appears on the latest episode of Club Shay Shay and recalls hating Spears' 2004 version of his 1988 song, "My Prerogative." The single appeared on Brown's sophomore album, Don't Be Cruel.
Around the 17-minute mark of the video below, Sharpe asked whether Brown would "need to hear" a song that he's sampled on.
"Yes, I got to hear it. Gotta hear it," he said. "Because you don't know what these kids will say these days. These kids will say some shit that you know you don't want your song associated with."
Brown added that no artist who's sampled him has done his music any "justice," especially Spears.
"Britney Spears butchered 'Prerogative.' Teddy Riley produced it, but that was a butchering that, you know... I couldn't take it."
Brown added that he initially cleared the sample, believing that Spears would give "My Prerogative" its just due. "But I felt it was a butchering," Brown insisted.
In 2018, Spears released a perfume named 'Prerogative,' but Club Shay Shay wouldn't be the first time Brown expressed his dislike for the cover. In 2005, Brown told New York Magazine that he "loved" Spears' videos, but that's where it stopped.
"Why try to fix something that ain’t broke? That’s what I say," he said. "But I’m grateful someone covered a song of mine. The check wasn’t bad either."
