Clearly Breezy isn’t a regular reader of The Mo’Kelly Report. Jay Z has never received a pass here, for past or more recent transgressions.
This week, in an interview in the October issue of Jet magazine, Brown complained bitterly that Jay Z gets “a pass” for selling crack cocaine and stabbing a man while he — Chris Brown — gets no respect.
No disrespect, because I’m a fan, but nobody brings up the fact that he stabbed somebody and sold drugs,” Brown said, referring to Jay Z pleading guilty to stabbing record producer Lance “Un” Rivera in 1999.
“You have to go through the struggle before you can get to the good part,” he said. “I don’t try to lash out at people or be as mad or impulsive as I used to be. I got to the point where it’s only so much you can take from the master, you feel me? I’ve taken my fair share of lashings.”
Brown also said he identified with Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Florida student who was martyred by former night watchman George Zimmerman.
“This generation is so used to racism that it’s normal; we don’t care. We aren’t on drugs or catching AIDS, but they still look at us as n******.”
“Catching AIDS” Chris? I don’t know if that’s supposed to be another homophobic shot or just indicative of his overall ignorance of the HIV phenomenon.
Brown simply fails to realize that his problems are of his own making, doing and perpetuation. Trying to equate himself to either Jay Z or Trayvon Martin only confirms that Chris Brown is just not all that bright and not clear on his level of (un)importance in a social relevance sense.
He yearns for the popularity of Jay Z, yet has not the career to even make such a poor equivocation. He wishes he was socially relevant in the way that Trayvon Martin is/was…but merely beating up a woman doesn’t put one up for martyrdom consideration.
Yes, Jay Z is a former drug dealer. Yes, Jay Z stabbed a man. He should be vilified for both. And yes, you beat the crap out of Rihanna. Mo’Kelly is treating you both equally as requested.