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Brown/Rihanna update
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 26 February 2009
So, how about another quick Chris Brown update? Word has it that the disgraced R&B star has signed up for anger management classes after allegedly beating up superstar girlfriend Rihanna.
The New York Daily News reports he has enrolled in classes in Glendale, California. With police investigations ongoing, there’s no legal obligation for him to do so – yet – though cynics says his decision to take the classes may be linked to reports he’s hired a new publicist to help him repair his career, which is looking even more fragile since those pictures of a beaten Rihanna circulated on the internet.
Talking of that damaged career, rapper Flo Rida has dropped a highly anticipated collaboration with Brown from his upcoming album ‘Roots’.
The track, called ‘Sweat’, was likely to have been a single release off the album, and given Brown’s popularity pre the Grammy weekend altercation should have delivered Rida a big hit. But he told reporters this week: “I recorded a great song with Chris. But I won’t be releasing it now because of what’s going on with him and Rihanna. It could have been my next No1”.
But more important than all of that, what does 50 Cent think about the whole Rihanna/Brown escapade? Well, the aforementioned photos of Rihanna have changed his attitude. Fiddy admitted he had made light of the couple’s fight when news of Brown’s arrest first broke, but says he’s changed his ways since he saw pictures of the bruised singer on TMZ.com.
Speaking to MTV, he said the incident initially seemed like something “you could use for humour”, which is why he posted a short animated video depicted the pair as characters from the ‘Street Fighter’ videogame.
But he adds: “I didn’t have any information on it. You’re just going on what the public actually had. It [the photo] shifts the whole thing. Even if you’re saying you’re in a dysfunctional relationship, I understand that. There’s a point when you’re already past a woman fighting you back”.
“You look at [that photograph], and it’s obviously past that point. There’s some issues there that definitely gotta be addressed. Not to take any shots at Chris or Rihanna or take sides in any way, [but] it’s really not cool. It’s not funny anymore, so there will definitely be no more reference to that from me in any way”.
