Bobby Brown’s Signature Haircut Was A Mistake

Bobby Brown recently revealed that his iconic haircut was the result of a mistake by

Appearing on an episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show, the “Don’t Be Cruel” singer shared that his slanted haircut, also known as “The Gumby,” was an accident.

“That was your swag,” Jennifer Hudson told Brown while showing him a picture of himself from back in the day.

That was a mistake,” the 46-year-old said. “It was a mistake that turned out to be great.”

“I was at the barbershop and I looked the wrong way while he was cutting my hair. I was looking at somebody, and I shouldn’t have been. But he cut my hair the wrong way and I left it,” he continued.

The one-of-a-kind look was seen in several music videos, such as “My Prerogative” and “Every Little Step.”

Although he thought it was an original style, Brown said  Quincy Jones informed him that he had seen the haircut before.

“But later on in life, I went to the late, great Quincy Jones’ house, and I saw a picture on his wall, and it was his great-grandfather, who had a haircut just like that,” Brown said. “And I’m like, ‘This old man trying to jack my style,’”

“[Quincy] was like, ‘Ain’t nobody trying to jack nothing,” he recalled. “That hairstyle has been in rotation, it’s been out for so long.’ [So] I stole his hairstyle.”

While a guest on Club Shay Shay,  Brown told his story about his haircut and Jones giving him the history on it.

“‘That picture is 40-something years old, and that’s my grandfather,’” he said, Jones told him. “And his grandfather had a Gumby. I was like, ‘Wow.”