Chris Brown has been in the news a lot lately for his series of controversial Instagram posts. It started when Brown lost the Best R&B album Grammy to Robert Glasper. Brown posed a question on Instagram story, “Bro who the f— is this?” after Glasper won, but later apologized. Then he congratulated Rihanna on her Super Bowl LVII performance, which caused some raised eyebrows because Brown was charged with felony assault in 2009 after he attacked RiRi.
When Brown announced an upcoming collaboration with Chloe Bailey, Bailey’s fans had mixed feelings about the collaboration due to Brown’s history of intimate partner violence. Some were eager for the song to be released and others were not OK with Bailey supporting him.
I’m quite rattled that there’s an uproar that Chloe Bailey is dropping a track with Chris Brown? The guy has been featured in so many songs since so why are we specially mad that Chloe has a collab?
— Woody’s Wife (@StephGump) February 17, 2023
https://twitter.com/holydevangel/status/1626310152088436743?s=46&t=jXHGZ1wKKCW2DHiTzz3lig
Y’all pick and choose when to dislike Chris brown. A few months ago everybody was just mad he ain’t get to perform at that award show. Now y’all mad Chloe Bailey working with him pick a side.
— 𝒬𝓊𝒾𝒶𝓃𝓃𝒶 (@Ambitioussgal) February 16, 2023
“The Cheetah Girls” star Kiely Williams chimed in on the conversation and reminded people about Brown’s checkered past. She also commented about his upcoming collaboration with Cassie.
Let him come out with his own record—so genius, so captivating that it makes us all forget HE BEATS WOMEN. He can’t so he wont. So what does he do?
He slowly creeps back into the mainstream by getting small nods for features on Black Women’s merit. Black women who are more… https://t.co/sWtsfGr43S
— Kiely Williams (@Kielyyyyyyyyyyy) February 17, 2023
Another collab announced, same point proven.
— Kiely Williams (@Kielyyyyyyyyyyy) February 18, 2023
Brown responded on Instagram, “Obviously you are at a point in your life where either you are very broke or broken. The fact you think you have to speak negatively about me makes you look so lame. Your life and career must suck right now. Minding your business would’ve been best but I guess you don’t have a business or a real job that makes you financially stable. I feel more embarrassed for you and your actual maturity.” He later made fun of Williams’ lisp by reposting a meme with a picture of her saying, “thop.”
Millennials opened up about whether Chris Brown should be forgiven or if Kiely Williams was right to speak up.
He does have an unforgettable past
“In my opinion, he should be forgiven because everybody deserves to be forgiven, but he does have an unforgettable past of abusing women. I mean nobody is going to forget about what he did to Rihanna, especially how she became an icon after that relationship. Both of the slanders [Kiely Williams and Chris Brown] are putting upon each other is childish, but if you look at it this way, he’s abusing another woman mentally talking about the flaws she deals with.” Vincent Howard, 29
Rihanna forgave him
“I understand Kiely’s point, but Rihanna forgave him. Millions of his [fans] forgave him. I don’t think she would appreciate it if people constantly reminded her how much of a flop she was after Cheetah Girls.” Timothy David, 28
People pick and choose who they want to forgive
“To be honest with you, I’m going to just say this transparently, I’m someone that [doesn’t] get that much into media. It’s funny because I’m probably going to be someone that’s probably going to be in the media, but I stick to myself so I’m not going to [be] someone that’s in a lot of scandals and stuff. From the outside looking in, I do not know Chris Brown personally so for me to speak on another man or woman, I can’t do that. What I will say is a lot of times people pick and choose who they want to forgive.” Will Gittens, 30
