 Sometimes I sit here and I think about the message that society is giving us if you can sing and dance Or if you can act or if you make a ton of money You can pretty much get away with anything hell in this day and age You can even become the president of the United States What is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem But focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel What I like to do is take different topics from pop culture or the YouTube community and try to see what lessons we can learn from them So if any of that stuff makes you subscribe and ring that notification bell So yeah, this was actually on my mind ever since Marshmallow released his track with Chris Brown That was like trending on YouTube and everything and I was thinking back to months and months and months ago The YouTube creator who is just killing it right now Gus Johnson, he's even been featured on comedy central and things like that But anyways Gus Johnson like kind of stepped out of his Comedy skit niche to make a video about Chris Brown and I really respect him for that like like just stepping out of like what you do just because something's bothering you like You know in the world and just saying you know what I need to talk about this I have a platform I need to talk about this and this is something that I do on my platform as well And I think more creators should do this and more people should advocate for things that they they believe in But anyways, he made a video about Chris Brown and just how Confused he was about the situation and how upset he was about the situation and basically, you know in Gus's video He talks about Chris Brown's history of like assault abuse and everything like that Like when you think about Chris Brown You often think about what he did to Rihanna like what was that like almost a decade ago something like that, right? But what Gus was pointing out was like this is a behavior that has not stopped This isn't something that Chris like served time for or he like, you know learned from or anything like that like since then Like Gus pointed out like since then Chris Brown has had a record of doing Terrible things like ever since then because in Chris Brown's mind he can get away with anything and something that Gus talked about is How it bums him out that people like that he He is a fan of as artists like Lil Dickie for example would work with somebody like Chris Brown And it really gets him thinking and I can definitely relate to that like that's something that I Think about like I think that we should all be checking in with our morals and our motivations and everything like that And like there are artists out there who I no longer support I've mentioned this in a video before but like I no longer support Empire and this was before the Jesse Smollett Incident that happened, but like just because the one of the main actors in their What's his name is a Terence Howard. He has had a history of Domestic violence against women right and like once I learned that I was like oh man I don't really want to watch this this show anymore and like Because like something that we're doing just as a society in my opinion. We are letting people get away with it We're telling them like okay, even though you did some awful things We still got your back because we value like entertainment above all else But there's something that that's going on like where we have to take a look back and say can we really enjoy it? Like are we forcing ourselves to not think about the terrible things that that person has done? So to follow up with that just the other day on Twitter Gus he vocalized You know what I was thinking too is like oh no now marshmallow is collaborating with Chris Brown like I love me some marshmallow I love me some marshmallow right and he just recently did a song with Churches and churches is one of my favorite bands out there So the next part of this video is that churches spoke out about this as well So churches actually made a post that said this we are really upset confused and Disappointed by marshmallows choice to work with Tyga and Chris Brown We like and respect mellow as a person but working with people who are predators and abusers Enables excuses and ultimately tacitly endorses that behavior that is not something we can or will stand behind and Yeah, like this is another instance kind of like what I was saying about Gus Johnson, but like Churches they spoke up about this like they they talk about things that they believe in and here's the thing for anybody out there I don't care if you want to be you know a YouTube creator a singer an actor An athlete or just somebody like you know trying to work your way up the corporate ladder like We need like something that makes us human is that we need to have like our own moral compass And everybody has like different moral compasses But like there's certain things where we have to stand and just put a foot down and say this is not okay This is not right like why do you think so many celebrities and and people in the public spotlight get so depressed because they lose themselves So like huge huge props to churches for speaking up about this and they were just doing it and they they ended up Talking about this as a concert like at a concert like they they just recently worked with marshmallow and because of their advocacy like The lead singer Lauren like she works with like a rape crisis organization in Scotland Like she felt like or they felt that they need to speak up about this because they just worked with marshmallow Well anyways anyways Chris Brown had to reply to this and here's what he had to say about it bunch of losers These are the type of people I wish walked in front of a speeding bus full of mental patients keep groveling over You own Insecurities and hatred I'm black and proud stop it. Stop. Just stop time out time out as a half black man That is absolutely ridiculous to even mention that and to say I'm black and I'm proud like the message that you're Putting out there for other black men is that it's okay for us to be delusional Dicks. All right, like this is such a delusional Statement that he made like just kind of tossing that in there to try to make this a race thing There is nothing that churches said that had anything to do with race It had to do with the fact that you beat women Okay, and it has to do with the fact that you are currently Being accused of rape, okay It had nothing to do with your skin color and it absolutely Just kills me when people play this kind of like identity politics like whoa, whoa, whoa, okay This is about my race. No, it's because you're an asshole Well anyways he goes on to say and I know it hurts that you guys are struggling with life or peace So you are forced to see my success you aren't even number two remember second place only means you lost first Ta ta good day peasants like that right there that right there These are the words of a man who since being a teenager and got into the public spotlight Has been able to get away with whatever he wants Okay, and like this is something that we all need to look at as a society But it's every time we stream their music every time we watch one of their videos every time we do anything We are endorsing that behavior. We are telling them We are sending them a message with every single stream listen view whatever it is We are saying your behavior is okay. All right, like I have personally like I Yo, I used to have a ton of Chris Brown music on my Spotify playlist, and I can't even listen to it anymore Hell, I even had Jesse Smollett songs from the show Empire on my playlist I can't even listen to it anymore So then since then since then churches has been getting death threats And I'm gonna link to the TMZ article down below but they have a clip from the church's concert where they kind of talked about this situation and why they expressed their You know their opinion about marshmallow working with Chris Brown or whatever, but they go on to say that people are threatening to rape them and shoot them because they spoke out about Domestic violence and rape. Okay, like and that is absolutely ridiculous But here's my favorite quote from Lauren and I just love churches even more for this angry men on the internet can call me all The names they want. I still think domestic abuse is wrong. You go girl. You go The last thing I want to talk about in this situation is like the artist who keep Working with Chris Brown like it is just brutal like I I try to be empathetic Okay, like an empathy is just a matter of putting yourself in someone else's shoes So I try to put myself in the other person's shoes like Lil Dickie someone I'm a fan of marshmallow someone I'm a fan of and try to put myself in their shoes of working with Chris Brown And I just don't see it how you could do it. I do not I can't imagine doing that like Knowing knowing what this person has done, right? Knowing what this person has done I can't imagine recording a song with them making a video with them Having a good time joking around without it being in the front of my mind that this is a terrible person like this is a person who does horrendous things and gets away with it and I am Enabling that behavior like I can't imagine like imagine being in an office like imagine being at your office and and hiring somebody or working with somebody who you know Beats women or abusers women like could you imagine working with that person like them being at the desk right next to you? Like how would you feel about that? How comfortable would you feel about that or if you're like a boss or an employer like imagine hiring that person? Imagine knowing imagine knowing that they have not paid for their crimes, right? They have showed no remorse and imagine hiring that person, you know what I mean? So I look at it and I look at you know, the little Dickie song Freaky Friday or this new song with marshmallow and I'm like like Am I made to believe should I believe that there was no other? No other R&B artists who could be on this track like is this something that just wasn't Wasn't possible and that that's absolutely ridiculous. You know what I mean like there's so many R&B artists You know so so so many hell gets somebody from boys to men You know I'll say no that probably wouldn't have worked for Freaky Friday or maybe my small song Anyways, I love me some boys to men But like Khalid, you know what I mean like I love him but like that's what I'm wondering I'm like why Chris Brown like of all the options why Chris Brown and The the conflict that I have especially with somebody like little Dickie is that he just made this Phenomenal like Earth Day song about how we need to like you know get together and like protect the earth and global warming and all that stuff So like little Dickie has these like morals and values But he worked with Chris Brown and that's why I'm just like oh like because I that's the thing as people We are very selective of when we want our morals to guide us You know what I'm saying we are very selective about these things and like I hate to bring this up But like I'm a vegetarian and something that I realized you know when I became vegetarian was like I was being very selective about animal abuse and hell even to this day like I'm vegetarian I'm not vegan. You know what I'd be lying to you if I said like oh I only buy these types of eggs or these types of cheeses or whatever But you know like this is something that I think about you know if if we hear about you know child labor You know in other countries like we're like oh my god That's awful, but then again most of us don't even know where our clothes came from You know what I mean? We are very selective with our morals and it's like I don't know I just think as people we should just kind of look at the different things that we're doing and like and Certain points at certain points We have to put our foot down and say like no this is not okay And I'm no longer going to endorse or enable that type of behavior All right, anyways those are my thoughts on this subject Let me know your thoughts down in the comments below Do you feel like we give people who are our singers or dancers or? Athletes or actors or whoever it is you feel like we give them more of a pass and we would the average person Let me know your thoughts down in the comments below. All right But anyways, that's all I got for this video if you like this video Please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos And a huge huge. Thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon You're all amazing and if you like what I'm doing here You want to help support the channel and get involved our monthly Q&A and some other perks and benefits click or tap right there All right. Thanks again so so much for watching. I'll see you next time