Chris Brown Talks About Michael Jackson & The Legacy He Hopes To Leave Behind
Chris Brown’s new album, Fortune, drops in two weeks, and he spoke with Fuse in a rare interview. He spoke about how he deals with the changes in the music industry, the concept behind why “ancient aliens” inspired the cover artwork, as well as performing “Thriller” for his idol, the late Michael Jackson, and the legacy he hopes to leave behind.
On the changes in the music industry:
I started when they had the $600,000, $800,000 video budgets. My ‘Run It!’ video was around that. Now you get it where people are like, ‘We got $50,000.’ It’s really killing us in a sense because nobody believes in the brand anymore. If we don’t do it, who gon’ do it? So I’m like f**k it, I’ma do it myself.”
On his album artwork:
You can see on the album cover, it’s like a code. That’s an encryption for my fans. I wanted to do something different because I’m into ancient aliens. I like being stuff that’s other than what everybody expects. … When they look in the booklet, they’ll see the different code. Some of it says I love Team Breezy or it’ll say certain things directed to them and they’ll know it if they break the code.”
On performing for and meeting Michael Jackson:
That was probably one of the greatest moments in my career ’cause I got a chance to perform for him. People loved the performance. I went backstage and met him. He said hi to my mom. He was respectful. It was just one of those great times in my life.”
On collaborating with the King of Pop:
Me and him had talked countless times through our people. We were working on records and we were working on some stuff. But God has other plans.”
On following in MJ’s footsteps:
My legacy is not to be Michael Jackson, but to just be me. … I want to make him proud. I don’t want to make it an effort to copy because I hate clones, so I don’t want to be a clone.”
On what the title Fortune means:
I wanted Fortune to be the blessing of having it. It’s not money, wealth for me. It’s basically the blessing of being able to do it. I’m fortunate to do it. I want everything to be top notch.”
by: Kristen
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