The brand’s Black Pyramid pop-up shop, a 2,000-square-foot unit, is open in Amsterdam through Sunday and similar ones will bow in Milan, London and Tokyo in the next three months or so. Now, 18 months after hooking up with Michael Prendergast, chief executive officer of Maxima Apparel, a $100 million New York conglomerate that is Black Pyramid’s licensor, the label is sold in 350 to 400 stores including leading ones like Xhibition in Cleveland. But eventually when you go back and look at yourself in the mirror, you’ve got to be OK with that person you want to be.”īrown started his first clothing business in 2002 with his aunt Christine in the garage of her Virginia home. Some people might like something because their friends like it. “Because the only thing that can bring people together - it’s not language…it’s music because that invokes the soul, the unconscious feeling you feel when you like something that’s your natural desire to like it. I think the reason I’ve been able to have this longevity is because of my actual goals, positivity, my music to inspire change in the world,” he said.
Once you’re canceled out from society they expect you to stay there. “In our society, let’s talk about America’s society, we talk about breaking people down to lift them back up. When the poor Fight back, it’s called VIOLENCE.” Along with a flurry of images of his Black Pyramid collection, recent posts include him wearing an Army green jacket from the brand in the new video “Party,” a shot of a Ralph Waldo Emerson book cover, Charlo Williams boxing, Brown’s two-year-old daughter Royalty drawing, various anime posts and an image of handwritten sign that reads, “When the Rich rob the Poor, It’s Called BUSINESS. As any of his 33.5 million Instagram followers can attest to, Brown is more than his criminal record or his music. Nominated for 15 Grammys and the winner of one, Brown vowed earlier this week he’s “got heat coming” via Instagram. I’m more in tune and inclined with what I want to do as an adult, a musician, an entrepreneur, fashion designer, a creator - I just want to be able to exploit every one of my artistic abilities.” “Right now my priorities are more focused.
Because if you sell that first, they’re not caring about the truth,” he said. “When people see Chris Brown headlines, they’re looking for negative press or a negative story because we live in a world now where yellow journalism sells. The seven years that followed were checkered with other incidents with the most recent being a criminal assault investigation at his Los Angeles home last summer. That’s why my music has always transcended as well as the fashion.”īrown is still defined by many for pleading guilty to felony assault charges against his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. I know my positive lane, I know my positive objective. “Nobody wants to have that stigma for the rest of their life but in retrospect I could give a f–k about that stigma at the end of the day. I’m pretty sure 10 years ago, you might have done some s–t where you were like, ‘Damn, I’m a bigger person,'” he said. I would rather withdraw on trying to prove myself or apologize for a mistake I made when I was 17. “I feel like my opinions vocally can be misconstrued but you can’t ever deny the talent or the music that comes behind it. In an interview Friday, Brown made it clear he’s moved on with his life, and the media should too.
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But with his new single “Party” with Usher and Gucci Mane now out, a documentary about to be released and an on-the-move apparel company, the vexed musician appears to be nearing a professional turnaround. Like it or not, together or apart, Chris Brown’s name is tethered to Rihanna’s.
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