Chris Brown recently did a up close and personal interview with Giant Magazine. He touched upon certain issues that he has never talked about before. You saw the show stopping performance on the VMA’s, but behind all the success he had a bit of a dark past. Here are some excerpts of the interview:
Below are excerpts from Laura Checkoway’s exclusive conversation with Brown, entitled: “Most Likely to Succeed.”

ON HIS ABUSIVE STEPFATHER  “(I told my mother) ‘I just want you to know that I love you, but I’m gonna take a baseball bat one day while you are at work, and I’m gonna kill him.’ He used to hit my mom…He made me terrified all the time, terrified like I had to pee on myself. I remember one night he made her nose bleed. I was crying and thinking, ‘I’m just gonna go crazy on him one day…’ I hate him to this day.”

ON HIS CRUSH ON CIARA “When Ciara came out, I looooved her. This was before her and Bow Wow and before anybody knew me at all. I met her at a show and was just really intrigued. I remember talking to her like, ‘Yo, I’m attracted to you and all that.’ But I was too young for her. I didn’t get the time of day!”

ON THE PRESSURES OF SUCCESS “With a second album, there’s a lot of pressure to maintain status. It’s like if you’re popular in high school, you gotta keep it up – keep the fresh gear on, keep saying the right things. The whole music industry is like high school. I guess prom was the Grammys.”       

ON MICHAEL JACKSON “Michael Jackson sold twenty-five million albums, so I wanna get to at least twelve. Michael (Jackson) said to me, ‘being able to dance and sing; that’s rare. Nobody can do it – only you, me and a couple of others. Keep working and dream big.’ Michael Jackson told me to dream big!”