14 DAY TRIAL // Following the February 8 incident that completely changed his life by chipping off his clean image, Chris Brown has had to take a lot of heat in the media for his personal life. What he can’t – and won’t – stand, though, is to have his music blacklisted, which is precisely what is happening right now with his latest album, “Graffiti,” he says in an angry post on his Twitter page.
Estimates say that “Graffiti,” released just a few days ago, will not manage to sell more than 100,000 copies in its first week, and even that is an idealist prediction. Sales won’t certainly get to reach that number if the music industry continues to boycott his work, Brown tweets. What he means by that is that music stores refuse to display his album on their shelves, pushing it all the way to the back, in a bid to keep sales down, he explains.
Not that he cares that much either, he goes on to say. “I’m tired of this [expletive]. Major stores are blackballing my cd. Not stockin the shelves and lying to costumers. What the [expletive] do i gotta do…” Brown wrote. An hour later, he tweeted again to say he wasn’t taking anything he’d said back because he meant it. “yeah i said it and I ain’t retracting [expletive]. I’m not biting my tongue about [expletive] else… the industry can kiss my [expletive]. thx again to my real fans. u dont go unnoticed. love yall” he said.
It is not yet known what prompted this violent reaction in the singer, but not few are those who actually say he’s showing how passionate he is for his music by taking a stand against the music industry as a whole. Granted, seeing how he considers his music, and his most recent album in particular, as true art, it’s no wonder he’s so upset over having major stores do the impossible to influence sales and boycott the release.
“‘Graffiti’ is the art of me, the art of Chris Brown. That’s why I named it ‘Graffiti’ – because graffiti is art. I know it’s a form of vandalism, but not lookin’ at it on a negative aspect, it’s art and my music is my graffiti.” Chris was telling YRB Magazine just days ago.