Okay ILOSM family, we saw this post this morning that actor (and Mariah Carey’s estranged husband), Nick Cannon, put up stating that Chris Brown’s legacy is just like the legacies of the iconic Michael Jackson and Tupac. It raised many eyebrows across the worldwide web, including our’s, so Nick further stood behind his words and posted a longer explanation of his opinion- good for him, but we still don’t agree. Here’s what he said:
Okay now let’s look at the comparisons between MJ, Tupac, and Chris Brown…

MJ is an icon and humanitarian on EVERY continent on this planet, ’nuff said, but I’ll continue. He has sold approximately 750 MILLION RECORDS worldwide. He invented the dance style that artists, like Chris Brown, emulate. He has been deeply persecuted in the media for many decades and was still standing. When you compare that to Chris Brown’s 6 years of a few bad media reports (ever since the Rihanna incident), there is no comparison. MJ has lived through being allegedly set up by higher entities that are far beyond just a couple of media outlets and at this point, Chris Brown does not know what it’s like to be attacked on that level.

MJ risked his entire career willingly, not by accident, to stand up for what he believed in when Sony Music was threatening to end his career and when he was allegedly receiving multiple death threats daily from the powers that be (not saying it was Sony, but according to MJ and those closest to him, it was somebody). MJ still continued to publicly speak out and not be afraid of dying as a result. This is what many people didn’t know about him: Behind the scenes, MJ was not soft by any means, he was very similar to Bob Marley and Tupac in those respects, where he did not care about risking his life. Ultimately all three of them ended up dying for what they stood for. Chris Brown cannot relate to that level of play…it’s not a game at all.

And let’s not even get started on Michael Jackson’s musical catalog in comparison to Chris Brown’s, there is NO comparison…moving on…

Tupac risked his life for hip hop and for his people. Sure he was a trouble starter with some rappers in the industry, but the reason he was loved by millions is because he was also like the new age Black Panthers in a sense, because he was uplifting his people and teaching the younger generation not to bow down when they had been the victim of injustices within our society.

At this point, Chris Brown simply sings and dances about sex, big booties, and taking the finest girl in the club home tonight. Don’t get me wrong, Chris is one of the most talented artists in today’s younger generation, I actually dig some of his work and he kills it on stage. But for Nick Cannon to say that his legacy is like the legacies of Michael Jackson and Tupac is a vast stretch of reality in my humble opinion. I get what he’s saying as far as how the young brotha has overcome adversity; how he has made amends for his mistakes in the past; and has also stepped up and did what fathers are supposed to do, which is raise his precious little girl, although he and the mother were never a couple- that’s a beautiful thing- but MJ and Tupac, Chris Brown is not. A more suitable comparison would probably be comparing him to Bobby Brown, who is a helluva artist, and Chris Brown would still have a long way to go before he can reach Bobby B.’s legacy level. Overall Chris Brown is simply not at the level of any of these aforementioned legend’s yet, he’s still got a LOT of work to put in, so Nick Brown’s comparison to them is waaayyy too premature.