Chris Brown
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Instead of Getting Rihanna's Album for Christmas, We Got Drake Talking About Rihanna
It’s the first day of Kwanzaa—Umoja—so, let’s all unite and sip this hot tea. Fresh off the release of his new song and video, “War,” (which is rife with U.K. Grime rap style) Drake sat down with Elliott Wilson and Brian “B.Dot” Miller on TIDAL’s Rap Radar Podcast to talk about, well, just about everything that’s…
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The Soul Cycle: The 2019 BET Soul Train Awards Served Equal Parts Nostalgia and Newness
You can always count on the Soul Train Awards—now known as the BET Soul Train Awards—to stir up nostalgia, and this year’s ceremony was no different. Taking place on Sunday night at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, 2019’s celebration was hosted by BFFs Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell, who set the “new-meets-nostalgia” tone with…
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#MuteChrisBrown Too, Because He's Clearly Committed to Being Trash
In recent weeks, there’s been a lot of renewed talk about toxic masculinity, particularly amongst viewers of Surviving R. Kelly and the legions debating the necessity of Gillette’s controversial ad asking men to be accountable. In all of these dialogues, perhaps what has been most striking is how many men instinctively equate masculinity with toxic…
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Chris Brown Detained for Rape Allegations in Paris, Meeting His Weekly Arrest Quota à La Mode
Chris Brown, aka the Child Cancel Culture Left Behind, continues to make a poor case for trash humans being able to learn and do better: He was recently arrested in Paris for allegations of aggravated rape. A source from the French judicial system told CNN that Brown was being detained along with two other people,…
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If There Is an R&B King Right Now, It's Not Jacquees (Yet)
I don’t know what constitutes R&B anymore. Rather, I don’t know who is an R&B artist anymore. That’s the first thing that popped into my head when Decatur, Ga., singer Rodriguez Jacquees Broadnax, popularly known as Jacquees, proclaimed himself the king of R&B for this generation. For starters, he’s 24, so I suppose his generation…
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Chris Brown Is Still Stalking Rihanna’s IG—and It’s Creepy AF
You know how every so often, your creepy ex pops up to remind you that you should’ve long ago blocked them on social media? Last weekend, that creepy ex was Chris Brown, who just couldn’t resist letting us all know he’s still checking for Rihanna almost a full decade after he brutally beat her on…
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Drake Threw Himself a 2000s-Themed Birthday Bash and We Officially Feel Old
We don’t know how old you were during the “Y2K” scare, but some of us were already fully grown adults with emerging careers (and, in some cases, families). So leave it to borderline-problematic fave Drake to throw some peak-millennial shade, reminding us that he was but a tender 14 years old at the turn of…
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Chris Brown Got Arrested…Again
Chris Brown was arrested in Florida on Thursday night. According to E! News, Brown was in West Palm Beach, Fla. performing at the Coral Sky Amphitheatre, for his Heartbreak on a Full Moon Tour. Following the show, he was apprehended by police, on an outstanding out-of-county warrant from last year. The singer was released after…
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SZA Sang in Italicized Times New Roman, While Ella Mai Made Thugs Sway at 2018’s BET Experience
The 2018 BET Awards weekend is well underway, and just as ethnic as I presumed it would be! I hopped off the plane at LAX (no Miley) and was greeted with a vast array of lace fronts, Gucci track suits, and about four of your cousins in do-rags and roller sets. It felt welcoming. The…
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Woman Says She Was Raped in Chris Brown’s Home in New Lawsuit
A woman filed a lawsuit against Chris Brown Wednesday for sexual battery and gender violence, alleging that the singer trapped her in the bedroom of his Los Angeles home in an encounter where she was repeatedly raped by one of Brown’s friends. According to the New York Times, high-profile women’s-rights lawyer Gloria Allred, who recently…