Chris Brown
Just as singer Chris Brown begins to get his life
and career back on track, trouble strikes again. Beleaguered Brown
recently hosted a party at a Los Angeles night club Supperclub and
things went wrong. A fight broke out between people in Brown’s
entourage and others in attendance, who came there looking for
trouble, leading to one man being stabbed. Police are investigating.
This incident occurred one month after witnesses in
another night club, 1OAK, reported Chris Brown was the intended
target of a drive by shooting, similar to the ones that killed
rappers Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. at the height of their fame.
Brown escaped last month’s night club shooting unharmed, as well as
the incident that transpired this past weekend.
However, former rap music mogul, Suge Knight, who
was in close proximity to Brown during the first club melee last
month, was sent to the hospital with six gunshot wounds, stemming
from the incident. Knight is expected to make a full recovery, but
is refusing to talk to police, refusing to ID the shooter that has
been caught on camera. No one that attended the club event Brown
hosted last month has been willing to identify the shooter to the
police or press.
Chris Brown
Brown recently pled guilty to a Washington, DC
assault charge, regarding local man, Parker Adams, in a bid at
avoiding returning to jail. Brown apologized to the court but did
not admit liability. Adams filed a $3,000,000 lawsuit against Brown
and his bodyguard Chris Hollosy.
Yesterday, Brown’s new CD “X” debuted at #2 on the
Billboard charts, with 143,000 copies sold in its first week of
release. The numbers are moderate and indicate the album will go
gold in America. "X" also debuted in the top ten of numerous world
charts. Brown's hit single released this past summer, entitled
“Loyal” has sold an estimated 2,000,000 copies worldwide.
The CD "X" had a number of scrapped release dates
over the past several months, due to Brown's legal problems and
issues with his former manager illegally withholding his master
recordings needed for the project. Brown also unfollowed a number of
his fans, some of whom vowed not to buy "X" as a result. These
issues definitely affected sales.
Case in point, in August 1994, Brown's label, Sony,
had a huge hit with the song "Here Comes The Hot Stepper" by Ini
Kamoze. However, Sony waited several months to put together a CD to
capitalize on the song's worldwide success. By the time they finally
released the accompanying album of the same name, it was January
1995. So much time had past, the lead single had already hit its
peak and the full length album did not sell well as a result. By
right, with the way sales works, that should not have happened.
Chris Brown (center) and his girlfriend, Karrueche Tran,
leaving court
Brown and his ex-girlfriend, Rihanna, who were
involved in a highly publicized domestic violence dispute in 2009,
have made peace with each other (yet her fans calling themselves
"The Rihanna Navy" keep attacking him, his girlfriend, Karrueche
Tran and anyone who writes anything remotely normal about the couple
on social networking). Brown stated of Rihanna, “Me and her are
friends. We have a great understanding, there's no issues. We've
been friends for almost 10 years and I don't think that's ever gonna
change.”
Brown has also made peace with former rival, Drake,
who also dated Rihanna, who initiated a club fight between the two
men, "I think for me it was more of a mature thing. What I portray
in my music is all positivity and who I am as an artist is all
positivity because in the world there is so much negativity on a day
to day basis. I just feel like it was necessary to put all the old
b******t behind us."
Things seem to be turning around for the
singer…then this latest stabbing at a night club involving members
of his crew occurred. Brown has made enemies in the music industry
for rebelling against the system. He also has enemies such as
nefarious rapper Jay Z, who does not mean him well. Rihanna's love
for Brown has caused this jealously from Jay Z, who she has been
having sex with for several years in exchange for career favors,
despite the fact he is married to singer Beyonce.
Rihanna attending a charity basketball game Chris Brown played
in last month
At the end of the day, Brown needs to stop hanging
out with gang members he went to for protection against certain
music industry criminals, as they have FBI files and so will he in
relation to them, if it continues. Brown also needs to stop hanging
out with certain music industry bigwigs, because it is attracting
trouble. Brown needs to lay low if he wants to survive.
At the end of the day, the music industry can be
quite negative. People have been killed in regrettably incidents
that should not have occurred. There is a criminal element running
through the industry that should not be there, as it has nothing to
do with entertainment and everything to do with greed for power,
fame and money not their own.
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