Same Sh*t Different Decade: Abusive Relationships in Black Entertainment

Right now, the public is going crazy over Hollywood’s newest reconciled relationship. Young musicians Chris Brown and Rihanna are back together again after their relationship came to a violent end in 2009. Some call Rihanna stupid, but most people are happy to see them back in each other’s arms again.

But what if I told you it was all part of the plan?

The reuniting of Rihanna and Chris Breezy is nothing but the lastest chapter of three-year publicity stunt that began with a black girl getting her ass whooped and ended with her coming back for more. But honestly, beating Rihanna’s ass was the best thing for Brown’s career. Like we all learned from Ike & Tina and Whitney & Bobby, nothing gets R&B fans more excited than abusive relationship!

Don’t believe me? Check it out.

Around 2009, Brown’s musical career was entering what you would call a “transitional” phase. His album Graffiti sold only 102,489 records in its first week and critics listed as one of the worst albums of the year. He also faced a problem that many young R&B artists face when they reach adulthood, keeping their audience. You see, Breezy began making songs for a high school audience, but as his audience got older and began gettin it in the club instead of the community center, he began to lose his listeners.

That is…until he made a grown man move!

Now, the young boy from the Run It video had grown up!

At first, Brown’s alleged abuse seemed like it would hurt his career, but then a strange thing happened. Brown began appearing on Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and by 2011, his album F.A.M.E. sold 872,000 copies in the U.S. alone! Not only that, but tabloid sites and companies began spending millions covering the status of Rihanna’s restraining order against Brown which led to increased publicity of both Rihanna and Brown. Brown’s bad boy image had now gotten him in the club with his songs Look at Me Now, and Yeah 3x and eventually led to his first Grammy Award in 2012.

Quite honestly I believe the entire abuse and relationship thing is faked to stimulate sales and publicity, but let’s just pretend this whole thing is whole thing is a true, and honest relationship told through TMZ, Twitter and MediaTakeOut.

This relationship between R&B’s most famous male and female artists is doing nothing but spreading stereotypes about black singers that are decades old. While Ike & Tina and Bobby & Whitney’s relationships happened to be coincidence, record labels took notice of how much television shows and magazines paid attention to them. Millions of dollars have been spent covering America’s favorite unstable relationship and sadly, so have a lot of young women. Rihanna’s return to Brown, whether real or not, is planting a seed in millions of young women’s minds that “It’s cool if he beats you, you’re just like Rihanna and Chris Brown! Even if he beats your ass…it doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you.”

I think that’s the last thing we need.