R&B singer and actor Chris Brown pleaded his case to fans over an internet video. Brown comments briefly on the incident that left his then-girlfriend bruised and battered and led to his arrest in a homemade video—made with Bow Wow at NBA star Shaquille O’Neal’s house. Brown addresses his fans about his upcoming projects and concludes by telling them that he “ain’t a monster.” “I don’t do all this talking on the thing, this is just some new stuff I’m doing,” Brown says (unedited) in the YouTube video. “I just wanna say ‘What’s up?,’ because I ain’t been out there in a minute. But the new album is gonna be coming soon. We working on it right now. It’s called Graffiti. It’s got everything on it, so y’all be ready for that. I’m about to drop a single this summer for y’all. We ain’t going nowhere. Everybody that’s haters, they just been haters. All my real fans, I love you. I ain’t a monster.”
Ex-girlfriend Rihanna is reportedly still claiming that she knows that it was Brown who leaked the naked photos of her on the web earlier this month. According to an unsubstantiated source, a friend of the singer said that Rihanna “was saying crazy things like, ‘I’m going to burn down his house!” But the sources added that Rihanna has calmed down but plans to release less-than-flattering photos of him and telling all about his sexual prowess.