An Open Letter to R&B Artist Chris Brown

The act is so tired. Once again, singer Chris Brown, you lose it. You tore up the Good Morning America dressing room, threw a chair and broke a window and basically had a temper tantrum after your interview with Robin Roberts.

Roberts asked you a few questions about the Rihanna incident. Mind you, you had given her permission to ask a few of those questions in advance. Although you tried to focus on your new CD, Robin continued to ask about the 2 year old incident. Once the interview was over, you stormed in your dressing room, screamed at the top of your lungs, and broke a window on the 43^rd floor with a chair.

Security was called, but not before you ripped off your shirt, left the building, and didn’t return for your second song. While leaving the building, you allegedly stared down a producer, up in his face, until others had to get between the two of you. The news spread faster than a California forest fire.

You are on probation for five years. I don’t think that was on your mind. You can’t seem to be able to control your temper and violent outbursts. You made a good point, though about the interview. Charlie Sheen gets away with doing whatever he wants and is called a bad boy. Everything you do is looked at through a microscope.

Well, Chris, you aren’t Charlie Sheen and you don’t have Charlie Sheen clout and money. When you make as much money as Charlie Sheen does for his studio, you will be able to get away with some things, too. Charlie pays publicists and lawyers to help him and do damage control when he does something stupid. Clearly you do not. Here are a few suggestions you need to think about for your future:

1. Grow up already. You are not 14 years old; you are a grown man. Stop acting like a spoiled brat. No one will focus on your music when watching you act like a crazy person is so much more entertaining;

2. Get a new manager. The one you have is failing you big time;

3. Get a new publicist. If you do not have one, hire the best firm in the entertainment business. Someone needs to help you respond to tough questions in a responsible manner;

3. Get a good lawyer that will cover your back when you act crazy, like tear up a dressing room, break windows, and walk down the street with no shirt on;

5. Nobody likes an angry Black man. Nobody will pay an angry Black man who destroys property. Go back to anger management classes, or begin therapy;

6. Stop with the tattoos. You look like you’ve been to prison. Even 50 Cent removed his tattoos so he could do acting jobs;

7. Talk to some entertainers that can give you support and some perspective about improving your career;

8. Leave your clothes on. Walking down the street after ripping off your shirt and sending naked pictures of yourself over the Internet are not classy things to do;

9. Your clean cut image is history due to your behavior. You are still spiraling out of control. People now call you a thug. This is why you need a new manager. You seem to be out there on your own with no direction;

10. Stay off Twitter for a while. You tend to speak without thinking first. Once it goes on the Net, it’s out there forever;

11. It’s called Show Business, Chris. If you can’t sell records because of your personal life, you will no longer be an asset to your record label. Get it together before it’s too late, or your next album will be called, “Former Artist’s Meltdown Exit”.