I reported weeks ago that R&B singer Chris Brown was slated to appear at Atlanta’s 2015 Black Gay Pride events alongside other celebs to include Teyana Taylor, Monica, Lil Kim and many more. Well it appears that despite signing a contract and being aware that the event was an LGBT geared function, Breezy was a complete no show at the event.
According The Georgia Voice:
Brown failed to show up at The Georgia Freight Depot nightclub as thousands of his fans waited to see the ‘Loyal’ singer at his scheduled Saturday appearance during Atlanta Black Gay Pride Weekend. The event, sponsored by Traxx Girls, a lesbian owned and operated entertainment company, was billed as the “biggest girl party in the country with over 4,000 women in attendance.” Brown, who was also in Atlanta to perform on his ‘One Hell of A Nite Tour’ at Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood, had been prominently displayed in the center of Traxx Girls flyers promoting the event, but when the time came for Brown to fulfill his contractual obligations he bailed along with the fee he was paid by Traxx Girls as a retainer. The reason: of the estimated 4,000 women in attendance, Brown refused to enter the building once he learned that a handful of gay men were present.
Melissa Scott, party promoter and founder of Traxx Girls, tells Georgia Voice she’s “baffled” by the entire turn of events.
“I think it’s unfortunate for mainstream artists to take people’s money with the complete prior knowledge of knowing what the event is and being very clear about what the event is about. I’m completely baffled. You know it’s gay pride. You knew you agreed when you sent the contract in and took the money.”
Scott says she knew there was “trouble in paradise” when she and Brown’s team were exchanging text messages (which were verified by Georgia Voice) at 2am and he still hadn’t arrived at the venue.
“I was being told to take his (Brown’s) image down because he looks a little feminine in that image, an image that he took. As a promoter I should be focused on my crowd. I had to send text messages of pictures of my crowd to say, there’s nothing but girls in here man.”
Brown was not scheduled to perform at the Traxx Girls event but had agreed to introduce R&B singer Teyana Taylor prior to her set. Taylor is currently on the road with Brown as one of his opening acts on the ‘One Hell of A Nite Tour.’ Scott was able to secure popular rapper Fetty Wrap, also on tour with Brown, as a last minute replacement after Brown’s fragile masculinity stood in the way of making an appearance for his gay and lesbian fans.
“We called Fetty Wap who is the hottest artist in the country right now and he was five minutes away (from the venue) and asked him if he could come,” says Scott. He said “hell yeah!” I said it’s a gay party. It’s tons of people here. He said he didn’t care and was on his way.”
This isn’t the first time Brown has proven himself to be homophobic. He got into a heated Twitter exchange in 2010 after former B2K singer Raz B tweeted praise of singer and Brown’s ex-girlfriend Rihanna and actress Halle Berry by taking a dig at Brown. “I’m just sittin here thinking how can ni*** like Eric Benet and Chris Brown disrespect women as intelligent as Halle Berry, Rihanna,” Raz wrote.
In true Chris Brown fashion he replied: N-you want attention! Grow up n****!!! Di-in da booty ass lil boy.” Brown later apologized.
Scott says what transpired between she and Brown has never happened to her.
“It broke my heart to do that to my crowd. Some people flew in from LA. I had 100 girls who flew in from the UK to hang out with this guy in an environment they’re comfortable in, says Scott”
Here’s the message to Brown’s gay fans: support artists who support you.
To say I am disappointed in Chris is an understatement as I am a major supporter and constant defender and proud member of “Team Breezy” but to see an artist clearly and blatantly disregard your community in such a disrespectful manner is quite unflattering.
VIDEO: @edsheeran & @Chrisbrown performing #Loyal last night at @DraisLV pic.twitter.com/wdBePaevvc
— CBENEWS (@CBENEWSS) September 7, 2015
VEGAS! The biggest Labor Day party anywhere tonight at my Las Vegas home @draislv! Tix here http://t.co/LQUOgvuCGy pic.twitter.com/1VFpETVwli — Chris Brown (@chrisbrown) September 6, 2015
Its also worth noting that Chris made it to the several other non pride events that he was scheduled to appear at over this weekend including night club appearances and events in Las Vegas as well participated in rapper Ludacris’ annual Ludaday events in Atlanta. Chris nor his team have responded to the claims as of time of reporting but we will be waiting to see if he does.
Update: Chris took to Twitter on Monday (Sep 7) to respond to his non attendance.
