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Riff: Chris Brown – “X”

Sep 26, 2014

If you’re only as good as the company you keep/Then Imma blame you for what they say about me/When I was by myself, I was fast asleep/But since you came around, I’ve been up for weeks

from X lyrics by Chris Brown

Rolling with the punches, the Holyfield of R&B decides that throwing people under the bus is a good idea for an album. It’s a telling gesture from an artist whose career can be summed up in one word: foul. The silky touches do little to soften the mood and make the whole thing wreak like cheapĀ cologne.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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