1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,039 Speaker 2: Please check the show notes for more information. 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about 4 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: Chris Brown are insane. He once kept police locked in 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: a standoff for ten hours outside his California mansion. He 6 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: was kicked out of two different rehabilitation facilities. He remained 7 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: in the custody of US marshals for two and a 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: half months. He beat up then girlfriend Rihanna, and his 9 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: public image never quite recovered in the mainstream court of 10 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: public opinion, no thanks to a criminal history that he 11 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: adds to seemingly every year. But despite his lengthy rap sheet, 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: Chris Brown made all right. I cannot say it, not 13 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: in good conscience. I can't say that Chris Brown's music 14 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: is my bag. You can yelp me on Instagram the 15 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: comments if you want, But I can't say it because 16 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: Chris Brown's music is actually kind of liked. The music 17 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: from the top of this show not great music. That 18 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: was a preset loop for my melotron titled Tupperware Underwear MK. 19 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 2: Two. 20 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: I played you that clip because I can't afford the 21 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: rights to closer By. The Chainsmokers, and why would I 22 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:24,559 Speaker 1: play you that specific slice of Backseat Rover Cheese? Could 23 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: I afford it? Because that was the number one song 24 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: in America on August thirtieth, twenty sixteen, And that was 25 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: the day that Chris Brown relentlessly ranted on Instagram while 26 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: police and reporters waited for him outside his house for 27 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: nearly half a day over an alleged charge That might 28 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: have been one of the few times that the troubled 29 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: R and B singer actually didn't do anything wrong. In 30 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: this episode, police standoffs, rehab rejections, ruined reputations, and America's 31 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: most hated pop star, Chris Brown. I'm Jake Brennan, and 32 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: this this disgraceland. The question sounded distorted. Chris Brown struggled 33 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 1: to piece the words together, music fans restraining. 34 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 2: Order from where he was sitting. 35 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: The Good Morning America host Robin Roberts sounded miles away, underwater, 36 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: even diluted, like she was standing over him as he 37 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: sank to the bottom of a swimming pool. But the 38 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: reality was Chris Brown and Robin Roberts were sitting no 39 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: more than a few feet apart. He just couldn't hear 40 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: her over the ringing, and the noise started off small, 41 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: just a dull little drone drumming in his ear. Then 42 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 1: it swelled, swelled like his chest when he was angry, 43 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: swelled until the ringing overpowered whatever bullshit questions Roberts was 44 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:18,519 Speaker 1: forcing upon him on national television. To Chris, it all 45 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: sounded like nonsense, fucking old news, nonsense. Have you all 46 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: seen each other? Been around each other? Robin was asking 47 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: about his ex girlfriend, Rihanna. Of course, Chris hunched his shoulders, 48 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: clenched his teeth in the stool next to Robin. His 49 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: tattooed muscles twitched with tension. He was here to discuss 50 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: his new album Fame, not his criminal history, but Robin 51 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: wouldn't stop. When he tried to close the subject, she 52 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: circled back to it. His attack on Rihanna was inescapable 53 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: that night had followed him around for two years. Now, 54 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: wasn't that long enough? Robin Roberts even spent more time 55 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: during his introduction explaining the assault that she did his 56 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: new album, which is what they were supposed to be 57 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: discussing in the first place. 58 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 2: Chris tried to play a cool He. 59 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: Muttered something about it not being a big deal to 60 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: him anymore, but the clenched jaw he was squeezing his 61 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: words through a total different story. He was grounded at 62 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: the present, and the present was the new record. He 63 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: peppered in some thoughts about positivity for good measure, dropping 64 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: the hint to Robin let it go. But she couldn't 65 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: let it go, and neither could mainstream America. Chris Brown 66 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: had just logged three number one songs in the US, 67 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: and still nobody could let it go. His new album 68 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: was even called Fame for Folk's sake. It stood for 69 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: forgiving all my enemies. He made his amends right, Why 70 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: couldn't everyone else make theirs? He completed his endless hours 71 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: of community service, completed the one year course on domestic abuse. 72 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: Rihanna's restraining order against him had been relaxed with her permission. 73 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: Her permission blessed by Rihanna herself. Was no one going 74 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: to mention that little detail? Did nobody care about that? 75 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: Why would they set up up like this? And why 76 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 1: the fuck would you greet America with information regarding the 77 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: time he beat Rihanna until her face was purple. Robin 78 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: even had the audacity to ask how Chris had put 79 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: it all behind him. Chris didn't even let her finish 80 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: the question. I've been focusing on this album, he spat, 81 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: eager to circle back to the original topic. He fidgeted, 82 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: rocking back and forth in the stool, pursing his lips. 83 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: His body language radiated heat. I'm doing this for my fans. 84 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 2: I could care less. 85 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: About what anybody else thinks, he concluded. But Chris Brown 86 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: did care. He cared deeply. He cared so much that 87 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: when the cameras stopped rolling, he marched back to his 88 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 1: dressing room and started a fistfight with the walls. He 89 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: tore his shirt from his body as his knuckles pummeled 90 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: the drywall over and over again. His eyes welled with tears. 91 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: A security guard peeped in the room, and Chris warned 92 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: him to keep his distance from the walls. 93 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 2: Took the beating. 94 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 1: Each punch was angrier than the last. The tabloid said 95 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: he launched a chair out of the dressing room windows. 96 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 2: Bullshit. 97 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: The only thing that went through the window that day 98 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: was his fist. Already battered from hitting the wall and 99 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 1: now bloodied from the broken glass. He left the building 100 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: with bruised fists and a bruised ego, still shirtless and 101 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: sweaty from his tantrum, Paparazzi snapped photos as he skulped 102 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: down the street, and the headlines exploded. Chris Brown flies 103 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: into rage, breaks window at Good Morning America, violent outbur stormed. 104 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 2: Off the set. 105 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: Chris Brown's image hadn't been rehabilitated, it had been reinforced. 106 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: There was just one moment in his life that would 107 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: damage his career, not more than an hour, but a 108 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: lot of life defining moments can happen in an hour, 109 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: Just like when Chris Brown got his start, nothing special 110 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: ever really happened in Tappahannock, Virginia, located an hour northeast 111 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: of Richmond. The sleepy town of twenty four hundred people 112 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: boasts four hundred years of history, but little else. There 113 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: are no tourist attractions, no routed clubs, no concert venues. 114 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: Excitement doesn't come to Tappahannock on rare occasions. It merely 115 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: zips through. So when representatives from Hit Mission Records drove 116 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: around town looking for a place to fill their tank, 117 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: Chris Brown's father, Clinton had reason to perk up. 118 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 2: His job at a local gas station was. 119 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: About to put Tappahanock on the map. Hell Clinton's quick 120 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: thinking that afternoon slapped the Brown name on magazine comforts 121 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: for decades to come as well. As Clinton approached the 122 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: out of town car with a smile, the reps rolled 123 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: down their window and gave him the scoop. They were 124 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: just passing through in search of talent to add to 125 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: their growing roster of entertainers. Clinton didn't hesitate. He volunteered 126 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: the few words that would change Chris's life forever Well 127 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: my son sings hit Mission Records didn't need much convincing 128 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: once they saw the exuberant thirteen year old Clinton was 129 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: referring to. The kid was a fully grown showman trapped 130 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: in a teenager's body. He could save him performing his 131 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: whole life because he literally had been this mimicked Michael 132 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: Jackson's moves at age two. Well, he tried to atleast 133 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: as well as a toddler could. He communed with God 134 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: in church, choir, stole the spotlight, and talent shows. If 135 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: there was an entertainment opportunity in Tappahannock, Chris Brown was 136 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: there and he was front and centered. Who was watching 137 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: didn't matter. He just wanted to move his body. As 138 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: Chris two stepped through his teens, he wanted to move 139 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: his hustle elsewhere too. Life in Tappahannick felt claustrophobic, not 140 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: exactly the most lucrative place for up and coming artists. 141 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: It was a small town where everyone heard each other's 142 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: business the same way Chris could hear his stepfather beat 143 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: his mother through the walls of their trailer. For years, 144 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: Chris trembled as he heard the violence unfold in his 145 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: mother's bedroom, the screams, the sound of knuckles hitting flesh. 146 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: He didn't dare move when his stepdad was lashing out, 147 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 1: even if that many had to avoid using the bathroom 148 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:53,839 Speaker 1: and even if many had to. 149 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 2: Wet himself instead. 150 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,040 Speaker 1: Other times, when Chris had nothing better to do, he 151 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: refined his sweet talking skills with the ladies. He developed 152 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: his charm early. He imparted with his virginity at age eight. 153 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: Yes eight, and the girl was nearly twice Chris's age, 154 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: But maybe he fist bumped his friends over the ordeal 155 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: or power. Eight year olds congratulate each other, but Chris 156 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: quickly learned that was about as exciting as life. Gud 157 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: and Toppahannock he had too much talent, too much energy 158 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: to stay cooped up here like an animal in a cage. 159 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 1: Chris already knew where his life was headed, and the 160 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,319 Speaker 1: folks at Hit Mission Records knew too. Enough With the 161 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: small township, bring on the arena, stages, the stadiums, a 162 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,079 Speaker 1: new life in New York was calling. Teenage Chris split 163 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: from Essex High School in late two thousand and four 164 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: before he could earn his degree. Hit Mission Records helped 165 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: his transition to the big city by arranging vocal lessons 166 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: and prepping demo packages to distribute to industry bigwigs. Once 167 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: Chris uprooted his life in Virginia, he had his pick at. 168 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 2: The record labels. 169 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: An offer came in from def Jam, from fame music 170 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 1: industry mobile Elie Reid himself. Chris shot them down, instead 171 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: choosing Jive Records in favor of their success with the 172 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: biggest pop stars of the day. Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears Usher. 173 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: Because that's what Chris Brown was going to be a 174 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: pop star, didn't matter what he's saying. R and B 175 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: pop pop stood for popular right. He was going to 176 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: make R and B pop from mainstream radio speakers, and 177 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: by the time he was sixteen years old, Chris Brown 178 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: had popular on lock. His first hit, run It captured 179 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: the attention of every teenager in America, regardless of race, region, 180 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: or religion. Chris Brown redefined R and B for a 181 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: new generation, one who previously thought of the genre as 182 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: slow jams their parents bumped you back. In the nineties, 183 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: run It shot up to number one on the Billboard 184 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: Hot one hundred, where it stayed for five weeks, making 185 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: Chris the third youngest solo artist topped the chart. Only 186 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 1: Stevie Wonder and Peggy March had and B. When Run 187 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: It went platinum, it made R and B more accessible 188 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,080 Speaker 1: than ever before. And if the hokey charm of the 189 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 1: song didn't get people on their feet, and his dance 190 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: moves did. He bobbed, He bobbed, he swerved, shuffled his 191 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: footwork left and levitating off the ground, jerking his legs 192 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: with such speed that he was barely more than a blur. 193 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 1: His dancing was so fresh and so precise that it 194 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: made you want to dance your parents and your grandma too. 195 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: He had the same infectious charms seen once in a generation, 196 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: much like Usher, directly before him, directly before usher Chris's 197 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: ultimate inspiration, Michael Jackson. Chris Brown was in complete control 198 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 1: of his body, but only on the dance floor. Everything 199 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: major in Chris Brown's life happened fast, and it happened 200 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: when he was young. He was thirteen when he was discovered, 201 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: fifteen when he was signed by a major record label, 202 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,719 Speaker 1: sixteen when he achieved his first platinum record, nineteen when 203 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: he ruined his reputation for the rest of his life. 204 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,199 Speaker 1: February seventh, two thousand and nine, Chris Brown pushed down 205 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: on the gas pedal of his rented Laborghini. 206 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 2: His reputation faded in the rear view mirror. 207 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: After departing Clive Davis's two thousand and nine pre Grammy 208 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,599 Speaker 1: Awards galap, Chris Brown's hands should have remained on the 209 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: wheel of the two thousand dollars a day car driving Rihanna, 210 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,079 Speaker 1: his girlfriend of two years, should have consumed all of 211 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: his attention that night, But instead, he beat Rihanna until 212 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: her face was barely recognizable. That he did a lot 213 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: of the damage while he was driving, and then when 214 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: he wasn't driving, he bit her, put her in a headlock, 215 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: and throttled her arteries until she began to lose consciousness. 216 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 1: Rihanna said she didn't see a soul behind Chris Brown's 217 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: eyes that night. She didn't see anything behind the mouthful 218 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: of blood she spat in his face. Prior to that evening, 219 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: Chris professed he was ready to give Rihanna a ring. Instead, 220 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: he gave her a cracked lip, swollen cheeks, a purple eye, 221 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: and a broken heart. He gave himself a reputation too. 222 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,839 Speaker 1: Chris Brown's career cooled to a simmer once word got 223 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,719 Speaker 1: out that he had beaten a woman. He began to 224 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: receive death threats mixed in with the love letters. Where 225 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: his swift feet had once earned him nearly twenty million 226 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: dollars in endorsement deals, now his swift fists took those 227 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: deals away. His relationship with Rihanna naturally dissolved, and so 228 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: did his relationship with the public. America watched Chris Brown 229 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: accept the consequences in what would become his second home, 230 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 1: a courtroom. He surrendered, pleaded guilty. He accepted his punishment 231 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: of one thousand hours of community service, one year of 232 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: domestic abuse classes in five years probation, but grudgingly, He 233 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 1: also accepted that he wasn't America's heart throb anymore, and 234 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: wouldn't be for a long time. Chris could live with 235 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: that at first, But shit, that was five years ago. 236 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: It was twenty fourteen. Now where was the love? Wasn't 237 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: this getting a little ridiculous? The thoughts tormented him when 238 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: he lay awake at night in his stiff bed, no 239 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: phone to distract him, no fangirls to console them about 240 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: the state of his career. Chris had plenty of time 241 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: to wallow. In fact, Chris had nothing but time, because 242 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, Chris Brown was imprisoned, held captive by 243 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: US marshals for the foreseeable future, not because of what 244 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: he'd done to Rihanna, but because of what hed done 245 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 1: after that. He went and got angry inside a place 246 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: that was supposed to be teaching him how to manage 247 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: his anger. He was pissed that he was doing time 248 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: for being pissed, and that damn ringing returned to his 249 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: ears louder than a siren. 250 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 2: His cheeks flushed with frustration. 251 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: He redirected his fury with the marker in his hand 252 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: and pushed down a conviction to doodle on the mirror 253 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: and his cell. His sketches ran free across the glass, 254 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: doing all the thinking. His elbow bumped the walls, smacking 255 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: his funnybone into concrete. He winced, but he was used 256 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: to it by now. Life in the hole was cramped 257 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: and crappy. If Chris so much has stretched his arms out, 258 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: he could touch both sides of the tiny prison cell, 259 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: a suitable space for someone who didn't know how to 260 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: control himself in the environment was the perfect recipe for rage, 261 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: something he was trying so hard to quell deve inside him, 262 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: even at times when the law wasn't forcing him to 263 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: take a class or performed community service. Another court case 264 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: loomed over his head at the moment. Chris Brown racked 265 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: up yet another assault charge. Earlier in twenty thirteen, when 266 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: he punched an over enthusiastic fan outside of a hotel 267 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. He threw a homophobic remark in 268 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: the mix for good measure, stupid. Even Chris knew it 269 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: was stupid, so he checked into rehab for anger management. 270 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: Two weeks passed. Chris reflected, recuperated. He refrained from rage 271 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: right up until the moment that he launched a rock 272 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: through the window of his mother's car simply for suggesting 273 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: he'd stay at the facility a little bit longer, and 274 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: the act blatantly violated his non violence contract at the facility. 275 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: He was escorted out. His stay was roughly seventeen days. 276 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: His mother, of course, didn't press charges. His parole officer, however, 277 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: had plenty of new paperwork to file. A judge sentenced 278 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: Chris to ninety days of treatment in a different facility 279 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: with one condition. Yet Chris was removed a second time. 280 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: He'd go directly to prison. Do not pass go, do 281 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: not collect two hundred dollars prison stat No one was 282 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: surprised when Chris Brown fucked up again. Not even the 283 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: threat of doing time could keep his anger in check. 284 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: The second facility claimed Chris violated a specific set of rules, 285 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: namely a rule about demanding he remained two feet away 286 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: from women at all times, and that protocol only applied 287 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: to Chris because well, you know, and they really rubbed 288 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 1: the Rihanna incident in his face with that shit. Chris 289 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: said he didn't do anything wrong and cried victim from 290 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: behind bars, and no one cared us. Marshals didn't listen 291 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: as they dragged him between correctional facilities to hash out 292 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: the verdict of his assault case in DC. To recap 293 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: Chris Brown was in jail for getting kicked out of 294 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: a second rehab center, was carreded between cots while settling 295 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: a case about assaulting a fan, and still had yet 296 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: to complete his five year probation for assaulting Rihanna. All 297 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: of this was happening at the same time, and he 298 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: had the audacity to wonder why people thought he was 299 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: the bad guy. But at least when he was locked up, 300 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 1: it was hard for his parole officer to complain. Chris 301 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 1: couldn't get himself into trouble if he could barely move 302 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: within his cell, as was often the case, he'd only 303 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: stretch his legs. When his mother visited, usually on a 304 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: weekly basis. Guards would escort him to a new room, 305 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: a new set of four walls, and chain him to 306 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: the table inside the metal jingled. When he waged his mother, 307 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: he reminded them both of what he was, a criminal 308 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: mixed in with the robbers, the rapist and the murderers, 309 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,199 Speaker 1: and Chris's mind, those are the real bad guys. They 310 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: weren't like him, right I mean, he really had to wonder, 311 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: And then again, they were in the same correctional facility. 312 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,439 Speaker 1: Perhaps the only difference was that he liked to wear 313 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 1: diamond studs in his ears and hung platinum records on 314 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: the walls at home. If Chris was lucky, the guards 315 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: would throw him a bone and he'd get an hour 316 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: outside once a week, allowed to inhale some fresh air 317 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 1: from the discomfort of a cage on the roof of 318 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 1: the facility. Fresh air isolation. It was a welcome change 319 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: in comparison to the reek of shit and pissed from 320 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 1: fellow inmates soiling the floors indoors in some facilities, like today, 321 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: he went straight to the hole, where he suffocated in 322 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: a cell that was barely a glorified closet. He passed 323 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: hours doodling with a marker or parsing through the Bible, 324 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,199 Speaker 1: head down, hands clean. He just had to hold out 325 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 1: a little longer. It was twenty fourteen now, and his 326 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: probation would be over soon. There was a clean slate 327 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: waiting for him on the other side, straight ahead, if 328 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: he could stay straight himself. But Chris Brown couldn't keep 329 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: a slate clean if. 330 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 2: He tried we'll be right back after this. 331 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: We're we're, we're. Chris Brown didn't exhale until he heard 332 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: the judge slammed the gabble. It was over five years, 333 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 1: probation done, Look at me now, no more legal papers. Finally, 334 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: it was March twenty first, twenty fifteen. Chris let out 335 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: of breath and relaxed his shoulders for what felt like 336 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: the first time in his adult life. The evening with 337 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: Rihanna that he fancied a mistake had been looming over 338 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: him since two thousand and nine, and now it was 339 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 1: finally settled and done with. He was free, but free 340 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: from what exactly. Free from the watchful, prying eyes of 341 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 1: a probation officer, for one, and that was a good start. 342 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: He and the law were square. The court of public opinion, however, 343 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: was still very much in session, and the folks in 344 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: the comment section of every article on Instagram post weren't 345 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: so forgiving. He knew, because he read them all. And 346 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: maybe that's why he was so goddamn angry all the time. 347 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,199 Speaker 1: But I digress. It's how Chris Brown quickly learned he 348 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: wasn't free at all the world had already made up 349 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,199 Speaker 1: its mind about Chris Brown. People didn't see him as 350 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,439 Speaker 1: a musician. I saw him as a monster. Every new 351 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: headline served as a reminder of two thousand and nine. 352 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: The headlines reinforced two thousand and nine. Chris Brown throws 353 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: a tantrum at Good Morning America. Monster Chris Brown assaults 354 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: a fan used as a slur while he's slugging the poritude. Monster. 355 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: Chris Brown gets kicked out of not one but two 356 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: rehabilitation centers. Come on, who even does that? A monster? 357 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 2: That's who? 358 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 1: No one could forget two thousand and nine because Chris 359 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: kept finding unique ways to remind people of his character, 360 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: the same character that bludgeoned Rihanna. As far as most 361 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 1: people were concerned, Chris Brown belonged in a courtroom, not 362 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:55,919 Speaker 1: in concert halls. The fans who remained were unshakable members 363 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: of Team Breezy. Spent their days mashing keyboards, logging radio 364 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: requests for his newest soas, and defending his dignity online. 365 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: That was the power of a bad boy image, and 366 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 1: a bad boy image was the one thing Chris Brown 367 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: still had. Some people either didn't believe Chris had done 368 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,199 Speaker 1: any of the crimes, or they just didn't care. Then 369 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: their allegiance was iron clad. Chris Brown heard his keys 370 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: jingle when he slipped his hand into his pocket. His 371 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: footsteps felt heavy, tired from days of sauntering around the 372 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: Las Vegas Strip on vacation. Now that he was home, 373 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: he was eager to rest those dancing feet in the 374 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: comfort of his z Agora Hill's mansion. Outside, the sun 375 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: slipped below the Cinematica mountains, and the final streaks of 376 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: orange and violet blended into the skyline. The streaks of 377 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: paint across Chris's car, on the other hand, weren't going anywhere. 378 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: Chris's eyes nearly popped out of his skull when the 379 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 1: paint caught his eye. Was this an illusion? Twenty days 380 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: in Vegas could do that to him? Man? 381 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 2: Chris rubbed his eyes and looked again. 382 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: In big capital letters, the spray painted words missus Brown 383 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:02,159 Speaker 1: redecorated his silver Rose Roy. Chris dropped his keys and 384 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: dashed over to his black range over at the other 385 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 1: end of the garage, same spray paint, same message, Missus Brown, 386 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: But there was no Missus Brown. Chris's eyes focused on 387 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: the door of his house and it hung askew hinges broken. 388 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: A total stranger was inside his house right now. 389 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 2: Chris bolted inside. 390 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: He tossed the broken door out of his way, nearly 391 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: tripping over a pie woman's clothing in the foyer. He 392 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: rushed through the halls, kicked up on the doors to 393 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: every room he passed countless I Love you scribbled on the. 394 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 2: Walls, all caps, same handwriting. Was that dinner? 395 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: He smelled? Had someone been cooking? Never mind that? Right 396 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,719 Speaker 1: now he found the final I Love you spray painted 397 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: across the kitchen counter with this so called missus Brown 398 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: had taken the time to cook dinner for him with 399 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: great care. That's when it hit him. The bedroom, of course, 400 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: twenty one year old Amayra a Yeb awaited him in 401 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: his bed, half naked and wrapped in a towel from 402 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,199 Speaker 1: one of the mansions many bathrooms. As one of Chris's 403 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: frighteningly loyal fans, Amira was starstruck when her so called 404 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 1: soulmate entered the room. Chris would have been pissed if 405 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: she wasn't so flattered by the unnerving display of admiration. 406 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,919 Speaker 1: The light in Amira's eyes quickly faded, and she was 407 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: handcuffed and carted away in the back of a cruiser. 408 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: Before she could ruin any more of Chris's walls or countertops. 409 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: Chris snapped a photo of her and posted it on Instagram, 410 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: labeling her a quote unquote crazy individual, as if he 411 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,719 Speaker 1: himself had never done anything crazy in his life. Police 412 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 1: scoped out the scene and found enough evidence in the 413 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: kitchen to suggest that Amaira I had been waiting for 414 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: Chris for days, days while he was away in Vegas. 415 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: Chris felt haunted, even hunted by her presence. It didn't 416 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: feel so good to be the person calling the police 417 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 1: for once. Bailey Carrn's heels clicked on the tile floor 418 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 1: as she stepped into Chris Brown's mansion. She slid the 419 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 1: glass door to the back deck shut shivered as she 420 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: stepped into the CRISP air conditioning. Bailey, aka the former 421 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: Miss California, was eager to show off for newfound notoriety 422 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: in one of Chris's music videos. She arrived at the 423 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,439 Speaker 1: R and B Singers Pad that day to discuss what 424 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 1: she called quote unquote business opportunities, modeling, acting whatever Chris 425 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: wanted for his next video shoot. Bailey herself was no 426 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: stranger to scandal. She was crowned Miss California earlier that 427 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: year in twenty sixteen, but was stripped of her title 428 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: shortly thereafter when nude photos surfaced online. In August twenty sixteen, 429 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: she was also wanted by NYPD in connection with the 430 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 1: Grand Marcity case from three years earlier at the Grand 431 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: Plaza Hotel. Needless to say, mingling with a convicted felon 432 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: like Chris Brown wasn't a concern for Bailey, But after 433 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: stepping outside for some fresh air, Chris was nowhere to 434 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: be found. Chris's friends lounged around the house, divided into 435 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 1: their own clicks, nursing top shelf liquor, rolling joints, and 436 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: shooting the ship. Rumor had it that singer Ray J 437 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: was getting a tattoo somewhere. Bailey felt for her phone 438 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: and her pants. Shit, that was right. She surrendered her 439 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: phone the moment she entered the mansion's gates. That was 440 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: Chris's rule, and Bailey wasn't about to argue with the 441 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: man who had very public anger issues. Feeling bored and 442 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: frustrated that she'd gone unnoticed, Bailey turned her attention to 443 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,439 Speaker 1: a few men hovering over a jewelry box at the 444 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 1: other end of the room. She could see the gems, sparkle, 445 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: diamond encrusted watches, gold chains, earrings with jewels so large 446 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: they looked like their wake and rip your ear lobe 447 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: right off. Bailey approached the case, eyeing a diamond studded 448 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: cross on a gold chain. She folded her hands behind 449 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: her back and leaned over the case in admiration. But 450 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 1: Bailey wasn't invited to the viewing. One of Chris's posse 451 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: popped out of nowhere and nudged her towards the door, 452 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: get away from the fucking diamonds. He backed Bailey into 453 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: her corner across the room, and her shoulders smacked the wall. 454 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: She couldn't retreat any further, but that wasn't enough. Suddenly, 455 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: Chris Brown rounded the corner of the room. Bailey thought 456 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: she could see something in his hand. He was gripping 457 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 1: it with unflinching confidence. 458 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 2: What was that? He pointed it directly at her. 459 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: He was getting closer. He asked her what the fuck 460 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: she was doing and. 461 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 2: What was that? 462 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: She thought was that a gun? She couldn't be sure, 463 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 1: but she didn't want to wait to find out. Bailey 464 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: didn't care about. 465 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 2: Business opportunities anymore. 466 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: She ducked outside. She stumbled around the grassy backyard and 467 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 1: down the driveway towards the safety of the street, and 468 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: as she made her escape, two members of Chris's entourage 469 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: approached her. One pulled out her phone, then the other 470 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: pulled out a pen and paper a non disclosure agreement. 471 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 1: All Bailey had to do to get her phone back 472 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: was signed along the dotted line and promised to keep 473 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: her lipsipped about everything that had happened inside Chris's mansion today. 474 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 1: Fuck that, Bailey swiped her phone from the first man's 475 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: grasp and beat it down the street, sprinting as fast 476 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 1: as her patchan queen heels could carry her. And then 477 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: she used that same cell phone to call the police. 478 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: At least that was the story she fed the police 479 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: when she called emergency responders in the wee hours of 480 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: August thirtieth, twenty sixteen. Chris claimed that he never heard 481 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: the cruisers that pulled up to his mansion at three 482 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: am that morning. He says it was the police helicopter 483 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: looming above his house that tipped him off. Instead, police 484 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: surrounded the mansion. Reporters clustered together with their cameras, quietly 485 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: streaming the standoff on Facebook Live. Somehow, Chris Brown stayed cool, 486 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: cool by Chris Brown's standards anyway. He knew his constitutional rights, 487 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 1: and the cops are going to need a warrant if 488 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: they wanted. 489 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 2: To barge in. 490 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: He insisted, Bailey's story was all diva drama, fifteen minutes 491 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 1: of fame. So until the police had that special piece 492 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: of paper, they could just wait outside and watch the 493 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,679 Speaker 1: sky go from black to orange to blue. The police 494 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: helicopter could run out of gas and crash for all 495 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: he cared. Chris could wait. He kicked back on the 496 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: sofa in his living room, folded his arms behind his back, 497 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: crossed his legs on the ottoman. He could sit here 498 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 1: all day kiss Those cops weren't getting in without a warrant. 499 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: While he waited, Chris did what he always did when 500 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 1: he was in trouble. He aired his dirty laundry online 501 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: through a series of Instagram posts. The news could keep 502 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: their live stream rolling for as long as they wanted, 503 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: and they couldn't compete with him. He knew the real 504 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 1: scoop was that there was no fucking scoop at all. 505 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 2: Good luck. 506 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: When you get the warrant or whatever you need to do, 507 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: you're gonna walk right up in here and see nothing. 508 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 1: He hadiots. He spat, and for once in. 509 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 2: His career, Chris Brown had it right. 510 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: Police opened drawers, turned over laundry baskets, looked in kitchen cabinets, 511 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: poured over the nooks and crannies of the massive mansion. 512 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: They entered Chris Brown's home around one PM on August thirtieth, 513 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, ten hours after they first arrived that morning. 514 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: They laughed with nothing more than their search warrant. They 515 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 1: didn't find any guns, let alone the gun Chris supposedly 516 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: pulled on Bailey. They didn't find the diamond necklace amongst 517 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: Chris's pajeweled chains and watches either. It just didn't add up. 518 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: Bailey had been specific, maybe too specific for her own good. 519 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: Chris Brown left in the back of a cruiser anyways. 520 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: Arrested on suspicion for assault with the deadly weapon, MC 521 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: cops booked him and tossed him behind bars before he 522 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: made his hefty two hundred and fifty thousand dollars bail. 523 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: He didn't panic this time, by twenty sixteen. Chris was 524 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: well acquainted with this kind of systerile scenery. He just 525 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: slipped in the cash and slipped out of his cell, 526 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: returning home to a Gora Hills disgruntled and disheveled from 527 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: the day long affair. When the newspapers reported that the 528 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: cops hadn't called anything from their search of Chris's mansion, 529 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: a related headline started making the rounds. Chris's lawyer supposedly 530 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: possessed it text message from Bailey to her friend that 531 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: exposed the entire situation as a hoax. But those headlines 532 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: didn't make it very far beyond TMZ and hip hop 533 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: news sites. No one wanted to read them. They wanted 534 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: to read the juicy stuff, the latest entry and Chris 535 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: Brown's never running a book of bad behavior, and the 536 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: social media meltdowns that accompanied them. A ten hour standoff 537 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: that involved police, helicopters, and insults hurdled at the fuzz 538 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: via Instagram. That was the story. What came after it 539 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: not so much. Chris Brown didn't just have an established 540 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: rap sheet. He ruined his chances of expunging it over 541 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: and over again when he had public fits when he 542 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: subjected rehab facilities, fans and fellow musicians to the wrath 543 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: he could never wrankle, probably because he never stayed in 544 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: a rehab facility long enough to make any true progress. 545 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: By twenty sixteen, Chris Brown had appeared in the courtroom 546 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: so many times that it was just assumed at this 547 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: point Chris Brown was guilty always. He had too many priors, 548 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: too many strikes against them, striking women and fans. It 549 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: was so assumed that the one time Chris Brown might 550 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 1: actually be innocent, no one seemed to notice. He had 551 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 1: lost the luxury of innocent until proving guilty, and he 552 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 1: only had himself to blame him. Really, charges were never 553 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 1: filed against Chris Brown for the incident, and the case 554 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,239 Speaker 1: was dropped. The general population devoured the standoff story as 555 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 1: Chris returned to the studio to record his next single, 556 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: a collaboration with Usher and Gucci Man called Party that 557 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: would go two times platinum. He followed it up with 558 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: a forty five track monstrosity of a record titled Heartbreak 559 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: on a Full Moon. He says the double album was 560 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: inspired by his breakup with Carucci Tran, the same woman 561 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: who earlier that year very publicly acquired a five year 562 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: restraining order against Chris, citing allegations of physical abuse, even death. 563 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 2: Threats, while Caruci feared for her safety. 564 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: Heartbreak on a Full Moon sold more than nine hundred 565 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: thousand album equivalent units by the end of twenty seventeen, 566 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty thou Pure sales law. To this day, 567 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: Chris Brown, the man who can't keep his fists in 568 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: his pockets and refuses to truly atone for his violence, 569 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: still earns platinum albums. He can still move nearly a 570 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: million albums and record sales. He can collaborate with an 571 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: icon like Usher because fans allow him to, because no 572 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: matter how often he behaves badly, fans want to see 573 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: what he's gonna do next, and that is a disgrace. 574 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan in This is Disgraceland. 575 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 3: And Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly and is produced 576 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 3: in partnership with Double Elvis. 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