He added: “I don’t want to let them down, y’know, so they on this journey with me. And they give me a lot of encouragement, too, to keep it on the straight and narrow. I’ll get a message, they be like, ‘Man, you 117 days [sober]’ — I was getting messages like that where they counting the days […] shit like that keeps me motivated.”

This week, Brown kicked off his North America tour — featuring hits from his updated catalog — performing 24 shows in 34 days, in cities like Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, and Phoenix before wrapping in Nashville, Tennessee on April 14.