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Admittedly, when news broke that Chris Brown had digitally flipped out via social media about his loss to Robert Glasper for Best R&B Album at the 65th Grammy Awards, I thought it was a joke. For starters, I didn’t realize Chris Brown cared about such things, though I don’t know him personally, so I’m not sure where that notion came from. I also didn’t realize that Brown had only one Grammy win ever, something that surprised me since Chris Brown, for better or worse, has made some really good music over the years.
But also, I mean, Robert Glasper kind of, ya know, does this. He recently won the award for his “Black Radio III” album—he also won for Best R&B song for “Better Than I Imagined” featuring H.E.R. and Meshell N’degeocello—but he also won the same award for his first installment, “Black Radio” and was nominated for “Black Radio II.” Makes you wonder if Chris Brown even looked at the nominees in this category that he was so upset to lose; I wonder if he didn’t just think that the award was his to lose. Turns out, he was right.
And because Chris Brown has been known to Chris Brown on occasion, he let off some shots on Instagram, first antagonistically questioning, and I’m offering a summation here, of just who in the CENSORED is Robert Glasper?, and then jokingly saying he needs to get his skills up and become Harmonica Brown. Well, Mr. Brown was subsequently served up on a platter via social media; a vast many people let Chris Brown know that if he doesn’t know who Robert Glasper…
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