Fat Joe believes Chris Brown would be on Michael Jackson's level if he hadn't attacked Rihanna

With Chris Brown playing another arena tour in New York and New Jersey, Fat Joe thinks it's time to “get over” Brown's legal history and give the singer his due.

The Terror Squad boss took to Instagram Live over the weekend, where he claimed that the culture would see Chris Breezy on the same level as Michael Jackson if it weren't for the 2009 attack on Rihanna, Brown's then-girlfriend.

“If Chris Brown never got into the Rihanna feud, we'd be calling him Michael Jackson right now,” Joe said. “Not like Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson. He is the most talented singer, artist, performer, hitmaker of our time. There is no one even close to Chris Brown. And it's time to get over it, it's been 20 or so years. As far as I know, there are no other incidents. Man, are we going to let this life go by without telling the truth?'

Since Brown's attack on Rihanna in 2009, he has faced a number of legal issues, including punching a man in the face in 2013, to which he pleaded guilty to simple assault; accused of punching a photographer in 2017, with the charge was later dropped due to “insufficient evidence”; ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran is issued an injunction against the singer after accusing him of abuse. and more.

Fat Joe continued: “When the truth is an unpopular decision, everyone is afraid to say it, they are undone. Especially famous people. The streets, they know what they are. The roads always know how to tell you the truth. The streets still bump into R. Kelly. He's in prison, he's done terrible things. They're still knocking R. Kelly.”

Fat Joe continued to defend Brown while declaring him the “King of R&B” and saying he was a “little kid” at the time he attacked Rihanna.

“Well what I'm trying to say is it's a shame we're lying and giving up on the king of R&B. The king of music,” the Bronx native added. “We think he could fight Michael Jackson, that's all I'm trying to say. If you really look at his work, you look at all his successes, you see what he does… You put it out of your mind that we don't like him. We don't like that he had a fight… He was a little kid 20 years ago.”

The “Lean Back” rapper is seemingly referring to Rihanna's February 2009 crime spree, which took place when Chris Brown was 19 years old. The singer was arrested for physically abusing Ri in a car before a Clive Davis Grammy Awards party. pleaded guilty to a felony in June of that year.

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Brown reflects on the 2017 night Welcome to my life documentary. “I look back at that picture and I'm like, 'That's not me, bro, that's not me.' I hate it to this day. That will haunt me forever,” he admitted.

CB is still on the road for his 11:11 tour, which will head north of the border for dates in Montreal and Toronto before returning stateside next week with shows in Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Watch Fat Joe share his thoughts below.