Chris Brown: 'Look At Me Now' Gave Me Hip-Hop Cred

When we stuck up with Chris Brown closing March, he was nonetheless rocking a blond crop (take into account that)? and he'd simply dropped what he jokingly known as his "first rap video," "HAVE A LOOK AT Me Now." Breezy's bars had been cheeky, with allusions to yellow Lambos ...A DISTANT amongst different issues yellow — and strangely adept.

Still, whilst featured visitor Lil Wayne gave the pop&B singer a co-sign, the YMCMB captain additionally famously informed Rolling Stone that he could prevent at letting Brown spit on his own record, insisting, "I CAN'T have Chris Brown rapping on Tha Carter IV." Weezy introduced this by means of rationalization: "HAVE YOU LEARNT what number of rappers can be like, 'I cannot get on Tha Carter IV, however this n---a placed Chris Brown on that complain? Rapping?' "

Well, Chris wasn't going to take a seat round ready Wayne to present him a function. Having made sufficient believers out of the chart-topping track, he determined to maintain it coming.

"I did not sing at the report in any respect. It simply was a rap song," Brown advised us while he visited the MTV Newsroom remaining week, incidentally, hours ahead of he discovered himself on the middle of a bottle brawl with rapper Drake. "So I USED TO BE like, 'Cool, in the event that they going with it, I AM gonna stay going.' "

Freestyles adopted as Chris shored up his rap cred. And at the upcoming Fortune, he placed the expansion on display, teaming up once more with F.A.M.E. collaborators Large Sean and Wiz Khalifa for the drum-laced "Till I Die."

But Crew Breezy cannot concern that Chris plans to surrender crooning. Even though he has the whole blessing of his (first of all reluctant) control group to craft candy 16s, he is simply having a great time. "With the hip-hop and the rapping, it is extra of — I WOULD NOT say [a] passion — it is simply me expressing myself.

"I'm not likely to sit down right here and say I AM the most efficient rapper or I AM a rapper," he brought with a large smile. "I AM simply pronouncing I'LL do it, I guess, if y'all like it."

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