Chris Brown has responded to Billboard’s exposé about his alleged addiction and anger issues, dismissing the reports before showing off his collection of luxury cars.
In a clip shared by Baller Alert, the 27-year-old singer frames the report of his “downward spiral” as being an attempt to keep him down when he’s trying to do something productive with his career.
“Y’all gotta stop with this angry shit going through drugs and all this other shit,” he says. “I’m tired of reading about some shit as soon as I got something popping. As soon as I wanna promote a tour, a party, a fuckin’ album, anything, y’all bring up something.”
He also complains about the media scrutiny over his romantic relationships.
“Y’all concerned with what girl I’m talking to or what person I’m dating, or who I’m seeing … I can be seen with whoever I want to be seen with … I am not hurting out here, trust me.”
The clip ends with him showing off his parking lot of sports cars.
[This story has been updated. The following was originally published March 2, 2017.]
Chris Brown will quite possibly go down as one of the most talented musical artists of this generation. He can dance and write and any song he lays his vocals on seems to be a hit as with his latest Hot 100 song “Party” featuring Usher and Gucci Mane. It’s a song that’s currently hard to escape much like the demons that allegedly follow Chris and appear hard for him to shake since his attack on his ex-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009.
Friends and former employees divulge these demons in an exposé published by Billboard today (March 2).
Among them include reports of the pop star snorting coke and popping Molly followed by sipping lean (a mixture of codeine and a fruity soda), popping Xanax or smoking weed to counter the effects of the aforementioned drugs. He’s previously admitted to sipping lean and abusing Xanax following his stint in jail back in 2014, which he also went to rehab for.
The 27-year-old musician also apparently makes stalking ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran’s social media a part of his day to keep up with who she’s with, where she’s at and what she’s doing. She’s since filed a restraining order on Brown, demanding him to stay away from her, her brother and mom. On Wednesday (March 1), her best friend Joseph Ryan La Cour followed suit, filing a restraining order of his own.
The exposé combs through what it’s like working with and being around Breezy. The allegations include him lashing out at his team and threatening them as he did in the case of his former manager Mike G, who he punched several times after locking himself in the room with him. Normally, these acts would happen when he’s reportedly going through withdrawal symptoms.
“He will cuss you out and say, ‘Hey, man, I’m functioning,” a current member of Brown’s crew tells Billboard. “‘I’m going to get the work out.’ And he does. But [he’s not] the first functional star who thinks they can handle those powerful drugs. I got to say with all my heart, he’s dancing with death.”
His team further admits they never know which side of Chris they will get when he wakes up in the morning. He reportedly deals with bipolar II and uses the drugs to self-medicate.
Nevertheless, his record label RCA stands behind their Grammy Award-winning artist as he readies to hit the road on The Party Tour with featured guests 50 Cent, Fabolous, O.T. Genasis and Kap G in a 33-city journey across America. He’s chosen to focus on the tour rather than fighting Soulja Boy in a boxing match.
His forthcoming album Heartbreak on a Full Moon is still being recorded, according to his label, and the project has yet to be given a release date. However, they’re gunning for a delivery that will land just in time for the summer.
The exposé also examines how drugs have affected CB in his everyday life from reportedly passing out in the bathroom for two hours during the video shoot for “The Grass Is Greener” to his security guards having to stay by his side to check his pulse to make sure he’s still alive and even calling himself the devil in a drug-fueled rage.
He’s currently free of a personal rep and management.
“You can talk to any drug addict or chemically imbalanced person, it doesn’t just go away,” a former friend of the R&B singer says. “It’s something you have to work on. You have to change your lifestyle. And he’s not doing the things he needs to do to get well, so he’s never going to be well. The kid is going to hit rock bottom.”
Read the full story via Billboard here.
I aint gonna feel sorry for a millionaire rich nigga. I know niggas that died trying to make it out the hood and this nigga throwing it all away. Fuck him.
overdose will put him in a coffin and a grave, that he is digging. lock him away now!
The grass ain’t greener on the other side than huh!? Boys gone learn the hard way one way or another. Get yo mind right foo
Those witout sin cast the first stone
Ppl always jugding chris faults but everybody sins im tired of ppl bashing chris all the time
But what bout 9/11 bush help kill all them ppl not getting bash like chris
Hilter killed a camp of ppl and women wit brown eyes he neva got bash this much
Bill cheated in the white house neva got bash this much
I cheated on women and did women wrong too so no one is prefect
If someone zans and smoke weed and still be angry then they have more than anger and bi polar issues. That chit put me to sleep. So do lean. Smh.
Chris black nonnono gud black stinks niiigger as bad black no HUDwhy black so stink why black so bad stink black just no gud
Police killing our teens for no reason not gettn bash more than chris something is really wrong wit america we actually seen wit our eyes teens get killed but neva seen chris beat rihanna or karrueche jus goin off hear say
Ur a moron
Yea ok u really dont kno me so u dont matter to me at all i can careless bout u are ur comment
Is that what your mommy told you to say? Must be nice to be stupid lol
They are bringing awareness to addiction. However, making a mockery of addiction just to promote this wack azz tour they’re doing. Goof azz niccas.
So, it’s okay to be pessimistic and point out all of the bad things about Chris Brown but not Beyonce? Taylor Swift? Drake? Bieber?
Dude just living the rock and roll lifestyle. People can’t glorify that shit and then get upset when dudes like him who obviously have some kind of fucked up childhood shit that led to all of these addiction problems choose to live it whole heartedly when they get in the limelight. He’s this generation’s Bobby Brown who also had some demons in his childhood, namely seeing one of his best freinds get murdered, lead them down that path. He just need to stop beating the women though. That shit is wack.
my name explains it all, but damn. who woulda thought one of the fruit town piru niggas woulda snitched on breezy
His young man with lots money a big ego and people around him who always say yes. He is talented but I think he thinks his can’t be touched. His time will come he ain’t a real gangster just a fake piru wannabe shame really…..
It’s good PR to reposition himself as a victim before the new album drops.
Ding Ding Ding… and that’s exactly what this is. A real situation being completely used as a publicity stunt.
that’s not his crew if they are snitching. point blank.
“Chris Brown will quite possibly go down as one of the most talented musical artists of this generation.” it’s like you’re just trying to get the comment section full of pissed off nerds.
He is truly Gifted and Blessed and he is a Child of God treat him like one.Chris keep your head up they can say all kind of lies about you but for sure they can’t take what God gave you and that is Love and Talent the rest is Vanity
Old school? Lmao come on we all know your 12
Someone needs to shoot this stupid bipolar fuck before he actualy kills someone…
Why karrueche on his page wen she got the order against him attention seek b—-
This is what happen when you come into this business and the devil takes over look at all the great ones they life is ruin in the end from Michael Jackson, Prince ,Elvis , David Bowie ,Whitney Houston all the super stars pay a heavy price drugs paranoid and then they are murdered Chris Brown is a super star who demise has already been planned you cant get out unless you give your life to God
Lmfao this guy was beating rhianna shitless at 19 and pretty much chocked it up to youth angst like a month ago in his soulja boy beef this guy was fucked from the start you can still be talented and be a sociopath/psychopath at the same time
This dude is a joke. he had potential
He will join the others who felt they could use drugs and live. NOT!