R&B singer Chris Brown is on the cover of the October 14 issue of Jet Magazine (we’re subscribers) and what he says in the controversial interview is slightly more offensive than him starting to kinda look like Lenny Kravitz.
Brown, who beat up Rihanna in 2009, wants to know why Jay Z gets a “pass” for stabbing a guy and selling drugs, while he still has to deal with his rep as a guy who hits women. Say what?
Huffington Post has a recap of the upcoming feature, in which Brown also compares himself to Trayvon Martin. Yeah, this won’t end well.
“This is something I’ve been dealing with for the past maybe five years,” he told Jet, per CNN. “Anybody with a voice – Tupac, Michael Jackson, the Notorious B.I.G. – gets formatted … except maybe for Jay Z, who is accepted by White America because he shakes hands and kisses babies. No disrespect, because I’m a fan, but nobody brings up the fact that he stabbed somebody and sold drugs. He gets a pass.”
In 2001, Jay Z pleaded guilty to stabbing record producer Lance “Un” Rivera at a 1999 listening party in Manhattan. Brown believes the Magna Carta rapper got off easy for this, but he himself still can’t move past the 2009 Rihanna assault.
“I got to the point where it’s only so much you can take from the master, you feel me?” he told Jet. “I’ve taken my fair share of lashings. I’ve dealt with the media. Instead of being an artist, I’ve been called a woman beater; I’ve been insulted in public and judged. And being able to not want to kill yourself at the end of the day is what made me say, ‘Fuck it.'”
The new issue of Jet hits — oops, bad terminology — newsstands on Monday.
