TUBI ORIGINAL: No BS: Chris Brown (2023)

It’s yet another TMZ doc on Tubi that I watch and learn all about a celebrity that I had basically no knowledge of. This time, it’s Chris Brown, who Wikipedia reveals is called the King of R&B by some and has even been compared to Michael Jackson.

Brown became the first male artist since 1995 to have his debut be a #1 song — Coolio’s “Gangster’s Paradise” would be the last song to get that debut success — but within a few years, his albums were failures, all due to the fact that he pled guilty to the felony assault of his girlfriend Rihanna.

Brown began dating actress Karrueche Tran and yet Rihanna and Brown released remixes to their singles “Turn Up the Music” and “Birthday Cake” that really made it seem like they were dating. Brown announced that he broke up with Tran and the day after, he released a video “The Real Chris Brown” where he said, “Is there such thing as loving two people? I don’t know if it’s possible, but I feel like that.”  So he started dating Rhianna again, but they broke up a year later and he got back with Tran, who dumped him when another woman gave birth to Brown’s child.

Brown’s life has been filled with controversy, like a fight with Drake in which San Antonio Spur Tony Parker got glass in his eye, a battle with Frank Ocean over a parking spot, a hit and run, a rehab stint and him being kicked out of rehab and having to go to jail. Two years later and he was sued for assault, false imprisonment and battery by his former manager Mike G. Supposedly, Brown took the man who he had hired to fix his image and  locked him in a room where he punched him four times in the face and neck.

Worldwide, he has sold over 217 million records and 94.5 million digital singles, but has had times in his life that he did so many drugs that his security had to check to see if he had overdosed and wasn’t sleeping.

If you want to know more form the TMZ crew, this doc has you covered.

See, I learned something.

You can watch this on Tubi.