Because Chris Brown is…well, Chris Brown, I assume anyone with even a little principles, ethics, or standards would be hesitant to work with him. Considering there’s at least two dozen tattooed singers with average voices who could use the work, and won’t have publicists shuddering at how they’re going to explain the association. Well, Drake was hesitant to work with Chris Brown. But he also went ahead with it because he’s not crushing on Rihanna anymore.
Complex says that Drake did an interview with Tidal’s Rap Radar in his hometown of Toronto. He talked about everybody, like rapper Pusha-T, who spilled the news of Drake’s alleged secret son last year. Drake says he personally doesn’t like Pusha’s music, because he doesn’t “believe it,” which is ironic considering that 100% truth has come out of Pusha’s mouth.
He addressed the ghostwriting rumors. Drake denies he gets other students to do his homework, because according to him, everybody knows his “strongest talent is writing.”
Eventually he got to his working relationship with Chris Brown. For the past decade, Chris Brown has been known as That Guy Who Assaulted Rihanna. To be fair, it’s a title that he has since worked very hard to change. And I’d say he was successful at it. After all, he’s now That Guy Who Assaulted Rihanna, But Also Many Other People. What I’m trying to get at is that you might think any friend of Rihanna wouldn’t want to touch Chris Brown with a ten-foot pole wrapped in hornets. And for a time that was the case for Drake. Three years after the Grammy incident, Drake’s crew allegedly attacked Chris Brown at a club.
Two years after the alleged club-attacking incident, Drake and Chris Brown were friends again. They’ve since been on-again/off-again in their friendship, but they’re back on. Rihanna, on the other hand, claimed last year that she’s not exactly friends with Drake at the moment. I don’t know if that’s because Drake has been working with Chris Brown. And we might never know! All we know is that Drake has just assumed Rihanna would be a-ok with his choice, because she’s a good person.
“That person that was kind of in the middle of us is no longer a part of either of our lives currently. And I have the utmost love and respect for her. I think of her as family, more than anything. And I actually had kind of a moment of hesitation before because I didn’t ever want her to feel disrespected by me linking up with him. But I also know how many nights she knows that both me and him have been consumed by this issue.
And I think she’s a good person with a good heart that would rather see us put that issue to bed, than continue this childish shit that could end up in a serious situation. So I decided to go ahead with it. And I was hearing from people that he’s in a really good space to link up.”
Drake on Rihanna and linking up with Chris Brown:
"That person that was kind of in the middle of us is no longer a part of either of our lives…I have the utmost love and respect for her."
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— Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) December 25, 2019
Drake can do whatever Drake wants to do. But I would really like to know the exact month and year in which he was informed that Chris Brown was in a good space. Because it couldn’t have happened any time this year. 2019 saw Chris Brown selling t-shirts to get back at his rape accuser. 2018 was the year of his illegal monkey ownership. Somewhere Drake is like, “Did you miss the part where I said that I felt like I had an assumption that Rihanna was probably okay with it?”
Here’s the whole two-hour interview. You can watch it, or you can go watch four episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation. I’m not going to say which I would choose. But let’s just say I’m already singing, “Whatever it takes, I know I can make it throuuuuuuuugh.”
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