Chris Brown took to Twitter on Tuesday to tell the world that he plans to
quit music after the release of "X," his upcoming LP.
The R&B singer said he's "tired of being famous for a mistake" he made
when he was 18, referencing when he assaulted Rihanna.
Both Brown, who has had a string of other post-assault altercations and
incidents on his rap sheet, and the music industry, which has promoted
and booked Brown since shortly after the
assault, have faced near
constant criticism since the horrific event that took place before the 2009
Grammys.
Brown's tweets have been littered with inspirational messages as of late.
"I'm not a performer nor do I have to be," he said in one tweet. "We are
all children pretending to be gods!"
"Aspire to be great and the person you wanna be," he wrote in another.
"Don't conform because [your] worth is more than any money or status.
We live. We die."
"X," Brown's sixth studio album, is out in stores on Aug. 20. It's worth
noting that plenty of other performers have claimed they were retiring
before, including Jay Z, who returned in 2006 following a three-year
hiatus that he later admitted was "the worst retirement in history."
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