Rumors continue to circle R&B singer Chris Brown about his supposed affiliation with Los Angeles gang members. With violence seemingly becoming more and more constant around the troubled star and photos emerging of Brown throwing up what is alleged to be the gang sign of the Fruit Town Piru Bloods gang, he spoke to MTV’s Sway Calloway about his associations.
“When you’re in LA and you’re around people, you meet everybody — you meet Crips, you meet Bloods, especially in this industry that I’m in,” Brown says.
The singer says that it’s not about associating with gang members, but that he can’t help who he finds himself around due to the environment and the kind of people his music tends to attract.
“I’m not in the country world. I’m not in the all-the-way pop world,” Brown states. “You in hip-hop and R&B and all of that meshes together, especially when you’re in these events or these places where everybody can be there. I’m cordial.”
