Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life Page #5

I wanna be at the

pinnacle, like,

the highest point to

where I'm known as like,

a legend, almost.

Two years ago, this artist

was just another kid

in high school.

Now, two years later,

he's one of the biggest

stars in the world.

Tonight, performing at the

VMAs for the very first time,

Chris Brown.

I was backstage and my,

my dancer, he ran in,

Moody, he was like,

"yo, you gotta see him,

he's on stage right now,

he's crazy," and I was like,

"I'm coming, I'm coming."

And out of nowhere, I heard

this groundswell of, like,

hysteria, you know what

I'm saying, like, these,

it was just loud, it was loud

as it was when I was on stage.

So I ran out there, and

there he was, killing it.

Then I realized, "oh my God,

he is truly gifted,

he's talented, man,"

in a way that we haven't seen

in a long, long time, you know.

He has a gift of, a gift

like Michael Jackson had,

that makes you scratch

your head and say,

what else is he doing, because

I've seen these steps before,

I've seen these moves before,

but what else is

Chris Brown doing?

When I got in the game,

I kind of was like,

I wouldn't say alone,

but I was, like,

to myself I had to prove myself.

People wanted to be like,

"okay, well, cool,

what is this kid about,

or what can he do?"

Chris Brown is in the building.

I remember Chris's first

BET Awards performance.

I remember he came out

with that white jacket,

I think I was backstage

at the time,

I had to present shortly after,

and I just remembered

hearing the rumbling,

and so we went, we're

looking at the monitor,

and we're just

watching this kid,

we're watching him kill it.

This dude is really,

really special.

I knew he was special,

but I didn't realize how

incredible the dancing

was until that day.

And I feel blessed to have him.

Really showed the best

of Chris's ability

to sing and dance and

win over a crowd.

Only person having

star power like that

is Michael Jackson.

There's Michael Jackson,

and there's Chris Brown.

And that's just facts.

Just like Michael Jackson

opened the door for Usher,

I believe that Usher

opened the door for Chris.

For any person, African-American

artists period,

to have come up in that

time and be successful,

and have that very delicate

mixture of being a singer,

dancer, performer, entertainer,

man, it was hard.

He was a trailblazer,

he was setting a tone.

You know, there was a shift

in how things were sounding,

and there was this shift

that was happening from,

you know, the grungey street

sound to how rap was just

so hard, to how hip-hop and

R&B and everything was like,

turning into more

dance, and more fun.

When I first heard

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