Chris Brown Wins Amid Efficiency Drama

Chris Brown scored a win on the 2022 American Music Awards shortly after slamming the present for allegedly slicing his deliberate tribute to Michael Jackson.

In the course of the stay awards present on the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 20, Kelly Rowland introduced Brown’s win for Favourite Male R&B Artist.

“Chris Brown will not be right here tonight, so I’m accepting this award on his behalf. Excuse me. Relax,” the Future’s Baby member, 41, advised the gang as they began booing the absent winner, 33. “However I wish to inform Chris — thanks a lot for making nice R&B music. And I wish to inform him thanks for being an unbelievable performer. I’ll take this award [and] convey it to you. I like you.”

The rapper’s win comes at some point after he claimed his tribute to Jackson on the AMAs was pulled on the final second. Brown took to social media on Saturday, November 19, to share a prolonged Instagram video of a dance rehearsal.

Within the clip, the Virginia native carried out Jackson’s “Beat It,” “Billie Jean,” “Wanna Be Beginning One thing” and “Thriller.” The alleged tribute was presumably deliberate to have fun the fortieth anniversary of the late singer’s Thriller album.

“U SERIOUS?” Brown captioned the Instagram put up earlier than claiming within the feedback part, “WOULDVE been the ama efficiency however they cancelled me for causes unknown.”

The AMAs has not addressed Brown’s allegations, however he was not included in earlier bulletins relating to the ceremony’s performing lineup.

The “Kiss Kiss” singer has made headlines for his authorized troubles over time. In February 2009, Brown bodily assaulted then-girlfriend Rihanna. He pleaded responsible to the felony and served 5 years of probation, in addition to doing group service and attending home violence counseling.

Later that yr, Brown opened up about the place the pair stood after the incident. “I’m fairly positive we will all the time be mates,” he advised Larry King in his first interview since his arrest. “I don’t learn about our relationship, however I simply know positively that we ended as mates.”

The on-off couple briefly reconciled in 2012 earlier than calling it quits once more one yr later. Following their break up, Rihanna, 34, described the way it felt to reply questions concerning the assault.

“It’s previously, and I don’t wish to say, ‘Recover from it,’ as a result of it’s a really severe factor that’s nonetheless related; it’s nonetheless actual,” the style designer, who now shares a 6-month-old child with boyfriend ASAP Rocky, advised Self-importance Truthful in October 2015. “A number of ladies, a variety of younger ladies, are nonetheless going by means of it. A number of younger boys too. It’s not a topic to brush below the rug, so I can’t simply dismiss it prefer it wasn’t something, or I don’t take it severely. However, for me, and anybody who’s been a sufferer of home abuse, no person needs to even bear in mind it.”

In the meantime, Brown was accused of rape and detained in Paris in January 2019. On the time, French authorities stated the investigation would proceed after the songwriter was launched from custody. The dancer referred to the accusations as “false” and “disrespectful” in a since-deleted Instagram put up.

Earlier this yr, it was reported that Brown was being sued by a lady claiming he drugged and raped her at a December 2020 get together. The actor replied to the claims through Instagram Tales in January, writing, “I HOPE Y’ALL SEE THIS PATTERN OF every time I’m releasing music or initiatives ‘THEY’ attempt to pull some actual bulls–t.”

When you or somebody you understand are experiencing home violence, please name the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential help.

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