The Guardian.com sat down with Chris Brown as he readies to promote his latest album ‘X’ which drops next month. (Read it HERE)
I’ll continue to say what I’ve been saying for a while. This guy is his own worst enemy. It’s great to be candid, but it’s to a fault. It rarely makes him look good. I’m not suggesting he lie. I’m suggesting that he sit with someone – like management, PR – and organize his thoughts so that the message he intends to relay actually come across. Right now it’s not working.
I assume he wants people to understand that he’s reformed from the reckless, angry, bitter man that everyone has painted him as. Yet he’s just coming across as not only angry but self-absorbed. In the interview he explains losing his virginity at 8, reveals he sleeps around, alludes that the Drake and Frank Ocean altercations were ploys to gain attention and projects that he would be bigger than life if it weren’t for the Rihanna incident. Here are some excerpts:
On losing his virginity at 8:
“It’s different in the country. By that point, we were already kind of like hot to trot, you know what I’m saying? Like, girls, we weren’t afraid to talk to them; I wasn’t afraid. So, at eight, being able to do it, it kind of preps you for the long run, so you can be a beast at it. You can be the best at it.”
On satisfying women:
“But you know how Prince had a lot of girls back in the day? Prince was, like, the guy. I’m just that, today. But most women won’t have any complaints if they’ve been with me. They can’t really complain. It’s all good.”
On whether he feels targeted by the DA.
“You can see Lindsay Lohan in and out of court every day, you see Charlie Sheen, whoever else, do what they want to do. There hasn’t been any incident that I started since I got on probation, even with the Frank Ocean fight, the Drake situation, all those were defense modes. People think I just walk around as the aggressor, this mad black guy, this angry, young, troubled kid, but I’m not. I’m more and more laid-back. It’s just that people know if they push a button, it’ll make more news than their music. Attaching themselves to me, good or bad, will benefit them.”
At the end of the interview, the journalist writes, “A lot of the time, his answers bear little, if any, relation to my questions. Or perhaps he’s decided on two central points he wants to make, and figures everything else is irrelevant. The first point he makes several times is that his new album will appeal to everyone; the second is that he is a changed man who’s grown up and calmed down. Unfortunately he’s at his least coherent when discussing the former, and at his most contradictory on the latter. By the time I leave, all I say with certainty is that Brown is a stranger to the concepts of modesty and consistency.”
If he quotes are real, I would agree with the journalist’s ending thoughts.
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