During Chris Brown’s highly-anticipated sit-down with Drink Champs, the R&B superstar said that ghostwriting isn’t okay in Hip-Hop, but acknowledged it was acceptable in R&B.
“It depends on the artist,” Breezy admitted. “In the Hip Hop standpoint, if you stand on your business, you rapping and you doing your shit, we don’t wanna hear about somebody else’s robbery. So we not gonna respect it from a Hip Hop culture to be like, ‘Man that’s hard that n-gga wrote it for him.’ Like what’re we listening to you for then? We should be listening to this n-gga.”
He continued, “I always said it like this right cause I never discredit writers who write on my album. I got hella co-writers and we do certain shit, but it’s just like this. They can write it, who gon’ sing it like me? So at the end of the day you might write some beautiful shit that gets overlooked cause it don’t sound good.”
Elsewhere in his visit to Drink Champs, Chris reflected on his relationship with Drake, and how they squashed their notorious beef. According to the Breezy singer, it was a clear case of miscommunication on both sides.
“It was just a misunderstanding on both ends,” Chris Brown said. “I ain’t going into too many details. It’s funny now, but as far as that, blood, he good. He straight.”
Chris Brown Says Hip Hop's Dominance Has Made R&B 'Obsolete'
He added, “It was funny, and then when we actually sat and talked about it afterward, it was just like, man, what the fuck was we doing? Like bro, that shit funny as hell. But shit, I’m an R&B n-gga.”
Chris Brown just dropped off his tenth studio album Breezy on Friday (June 24), which featured appearances from Lil Durk, Lil Wayne, BLEU, H.E.R. and others.
Watch the full Drink Champs episode below.
It’s like someone else other than Da Vinci saying they created the Mona Lisa and taking credit for it without understanding the depth, meaning, and soul of the piece. It’s plagiarism at it’s core still.
It’s different and yet, his music would be stronger if it were reflective of his own life’s circumstances.
he has a point, but the main reason why its “ok” for singers to perform songs written by others, vs rappers- is with rappers, your lyrics are a major part of your skillset. along with your voice, cadence, rhythms, flow etc- all intertwined together but your lyrics are a very important part of that. with singers, its more about your vocal chops, range.. and WAY less lyrics per sung song compared to rapping a song
Couldn’t have sed it better. Simple. For singing, alotta ppl can write songs, but not everyone can sing. If you can rap, you can rap. If not, it sit down somewhere.