Fat Joe has gone out of his way to praise Chris Brown and compare him to Michael Jackson.
The Bronx rapper took to Instagram Live over the weekend to give Breezy his flowers, claiming he’d be put on a high pedestal if it wasn’t for his domestice violence case with Rihanna.
“If Chris Brown never got into the controversy with Rihanna, we would be calling him Michael Jackson right now,” he said. “Not like Michael Jackson — Michael Jackson. He is the most talented singer, artist, performer, hit maker of our time.
“There’s nobody even close to Chris Brown, and it’s time we move past it. It’s been 20-something years that I know of — there’s no more incidents. We gon’ let this lifetime go by without saying the truth?
“What happens is, when the truth is an unpopular decision, everybody gets scared to say it. They get canceled — especially famous people. But you know, the streets — they know what it is. Streets always know, they tell you the truth.”
Fat Joe claimed the “streets” are still listening to R. Kelly despite being sentenced to 20 years in prison for child sexual abuse.
“The streets still bumping R. Kelly,” he said. “He’s in jail, he did terrible things.”
Fat Joe went on to say that Chris Brown’s catalog and the amount of hits he’s had needs more respect.
“So what I’m tryna say is that it’s a shame that we lying and we not giving it up to the king of R&B,” he said. “We be thinking he could battle Michael Jackson, that’s all I’m tryna say. I’m not lying. If you really look at his body of work and you look at all his hits, you see what he does.”
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Fat Joe made clear that he doesn’t condone his actions towards Rihanna, but claimed he was a “little kid” at the time.
Joe previously had high praise for Chris Brown in April, crowning him the modern day 2Pac.
“Of course, the 2Pac of 2024 has to be Chris Brown,” he said at the time. “Chris Brown is considered an alien. If you playing basketball, he’ll bust your ass. If you sing against him, he sing better, he dance better. If he gotta rap, he raps.”
Source hiphopdx.com
