Chris Brown Talks Drake Beef, Friendship with Karrueche & Becoming a Legend

By: Taren Vaughan

Not a day goes by that Chris Brown isn’t mentioned in the media. Whether it be the singer’s love life with Rihanna or the legal troubles that he keeps running into, there is always much talk going around about the singer and what he has going on. The reigniting of his beef with Drake is the hot topic surrounding Chris now as they both have been firing shots at each other on tracks. In an interview that he did with Angie Martinez on The Angie Martinez Show, Chris Brown talked about his beef with Drake and quite a few other things from the love triangle that he had going on with Rihanna and Karruche Tran to his lack of desire to do an interview with Oprah Winfrey. One of the first things Chris touched on was why he chose to put out the video of himself announcing his break up from Karrueche. And he says that he wanted to handle things like a man:

“I wanted to be more of a man. Me being young, even with relationships in the past, I did a lot of lying, I did everything just to make sure nobody gets hurt in the process. I just don’t feel it’s necessary anymore in my life. Nobody can hate me for being honest. I had to just be brutal. I told both of them that the video was coming out. … I’m not trying to be a player. It’s never an easy situation to tell another person that you still love another person, so that’s kinda difficult. But our friendship, me and Karrueche’s friendship, is still cool. We’re still good friends.”

And on whether or not Rihanna is cool with him still maintaining a friendship with Karrueche, he says:

“Yeah, to a degree…”

It is very obvious that Drake isn’t one of Chris’ favorite people in the business and he says that the Young Money rapper is just one of those people that he doesn’t get along with:

“I just think personally, there’s just people you ain’t gonna get along with. You know, I don’t have to keep hashing on the subject about him. But just, we never gonna see eye to eye. It’s just ‘You go your way, I’ma go mine.'”

And when asked did it have anything to do with Rihanna, his inability to get along with Drake, Chris says that there’s more to it than that, using the word “everything” to describe his issue with Drake. As far as how Rihanna feels about Drake, Chris says he doesn’t really know as he tries not to let Drake’s name come up into their conversations:

“Um, that’s a good question. You know I don’t really try to talk about him when I’m around her. I just do my thing. I just lay the pipe.”

Though the Chris Brown Drake club brawl happened going on a year ago, the legal troubles keep piling up for both artists over the incident, Chris finding himself caught up in other troubles outside of the infamous club fight. The way Chris feels, he doesn’t go out looking for trouble but it always finds its way to him, still holding on to his innocence in what went down at Club W.I.P.:

“I don’t even hash out what happened that night, none of that stuff. But you know, at the end of the day, wherever I go somewhere, it might be a situation or whatever. But we never escalated or tried to start it. So you know, they’ll see. You heard the witnesses and everything else, so I don’t gotta go out and tell everything that happened…I don’t have to [look for trouble]. Trouble finds me.”

Drake isn’t the only artist that Chris has had beef with as not too long ago it was reported that Chris Brown and Frank Ocean got into a fight, leading to Frank Ocean wanting to press charges against Chris but later changing his mind. The whole incident Chris feels was Frank’s way of getting sympathy from people as he was nominated for several Grammys this year, Chris jokingly claiming that he is a fan of Frank’s music:

“I think it’s a lot of strategies people try to use when they’re up for awards. It’s a sympathy role. I don’t have to go that route. I just do my music, do my thing. So for him, it’s whatever. Love your music, bro. Have fun.”

Chris also adds that for awhile radio stations and award shows weren’t playing his music or giving him a chance to perform at shows over his 2009 assaulting of Rihanna but have become more lenient over the years. And as far him ever making an appearance on Oprah Winfrey, Chris says that at this point, he only interviews with people he feels comfortable with:

“I’ve been invited, I just say no at this point. I’ll go to people that I’m comfortable with…I never wanna be in a situation where I feel like I’m attacked or I’m gonna be trapped for whatever it is. I think I’m paying for whatever I’ve done and I’ve learned from it and I’m moving forward, so I only want to surround myself with the people that are about positivity.”

And with his career, Chris says that before he hangs it up with his music, he wants to leave his mark and walk away a legend:

“I just want to be a legend. I think my [goal] now is just to make my mark in the game as just an established artist and just a real artist and a culture ambassador. I feel like I’m just getting successful. I think the hard part is over. I went through the obstacles that God kinda made me go through so I could be humble.”

Chris also talks about his plans for his new album and how he doesn’t get bothered by other men lusting after Rihanna.

Peep Chris Brown’s interview with Angie Martinez below:

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