Chris Brown has seen some of the criticism of his upcoming joint summer stadium tour with his friend Usher and he’s responded with pointed words for those haters. In a post on his Instagram Story on Sunday (April 26), Brown 36, minced no words in pushing back against what he painted as the online backlash to the outing.
“The funniest and weirdest s–t ever to me is the fact that people have the option to come to my tour and the option not to,” Brown wrote. “I know everyone who is a fan of me and USHER will definitely be in the building and it will be PACKED just like last year,” he added in seeming reference to his 2025 Breezy Bowl XX world tour, Brown’s highest-grossing tour to date with nearly $300 million in ticket sales.
Brown continued, “But I’m scrolling through insta and tik tok and I come across rage bait pages and or these fake woke stand up for nothing pages bashing people for wanted to come have a good time. The dudes hating, I can understand that (thinking we gone steal ya girl and s–t). BUT THE KARENS, and the self hating hoes be making me LAUGH. I CANT WAIT TO RUB THIS S–T IN YALL FACE.” The post ended with three laughing crying emoji.
While Brown did not cite any specific complaints or comments, he appeared to be alluding to those who’ve pushed back on the news about the singer who has a long rap sheet of assault cases in his history, including a guilty plea for felony assault tied to his attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna in August 2009 on the eve of that year’s Grammy Awards; he was sentenced to five years’ probation and six months of community service in that case.
In the comments about the first tease of the tour on Brown’s official TikTok, some of the comments appeared to allude to Brown’s history, including one that read “people, did ya’ll forgot?” and a similar one reading “don’t think we forgot,” as well as quite a few complaining about the price of tickets for the joint outing.
Since the Rihanna assault, Brown has had several more run-ins with the police over violent incidents, including an arrest in May 2025 in the U.K. on a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm tied to a 2023 London nightclub assault in which the singer is accused of smashing a promoter over the head with a bottle and kicking him.
In addition, a 2024 lawsuit filed in Texas charged that Brown and several accomplices “brutally and severely beat” four men backstage at Dickies Arena in an unprovoked backstage attack. Police also responded in June 2021 to a report of a domestic argument at Brown’s San Fernando Valley home address in which a woman said Brown smacked the back of her head so hard her weave came off; police declined to file charges due to insufficient evidence in that case.
Brown is teasing a new album, Brown, due out on May 8 and Usher has recently hopped on the remix of Breezy and Bryson Tiller’s “It Depends.” The R&B tour (named for the singer’s last names, Raymond and Brown) is slated to kick off on June 26 at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver.
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