Although police have not officially confirmed the identity of woman who was involved in an altercation after which singer Bobby Chris Brown was arrested on domestic violence felony battery charges, all signs would point to it being girlfriend Rihanna, and an inside source with the LAPD has allegedly told the Los Angeles Times that this is indeed the case.
According to police and witnesses, Brown and the unidentified woman were involved in a “heated argument” inside of Brown’s car while he was driving in L.A. early Sunday morning. Brown reportedly stopped the car, at which time “[he] and the woman got out and the argument escalated. The woman suffered visible injuries and [later] identified Brown as her attacker.” Police arrived on the scene after receiving a 911 call, at which time they found the woman still at the scene, though Brown had left by that point. No word on what type of injuries the woman sustained, though I wouldn’t be surprised if Chris Brown’s giant teeth were somehow involved.
He turned himself in at a local police station on Sunday evening. Where he was officially booked for making “criminal threats.” He posted the $50,000 bail and was released shortly thereafter. Hoo boy, there goes that Doublemint endorsement…
Even before the Los Angeles Times got their supposed inside scoop, there was wide spectulation that the victim of the attack had been Rihanna, as she and Brown had attended Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party on Saturday night in Beverly Hills, just hours before the incident. Suspicions further grew after police refused to confirm the identity of the victim, and when both Brown and Rihanna cancelled their scheduled appearances at the Grammys on Sunday night.
Either way, Chris Brown is a piece of shit if he did in fact attack this woman, Rihanna or not. If the victim is Rihanna, I can only hope that she uses every reasonable bone in her body to dump this scumbag and never look back. If she does, my respect for her will grow immensely. Because the last we need is yet another one of these.
IN OTHER GRAMMY NEWS…
The unlikely pairing of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss won five awards for their collaboration album Raising Sand, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year, pwning Lil Wayne in the former.
But Weezy did manage to score four awards in the rap subcategory, which is elementary, seeing how every critic has been dangling on his nuts for the past two years. “American Boy” rightfully won Rap/Sung Collaboration award, and “Sexual Eruption” was too tongue-in-cheek to take anything, but American Gangster is a much better album than The Carter III, and if Mathan is to be believed, so is Nas‘ album.
Jennifer Hudson won an award for Best R&B Album, giving an emotional speech honoring her family members who had been murdered last year, among others, again proving that winning American Idol really means nothing. In a related story, Taylor Hicks considered committing suicide but stopped after realizing that no one would have noticed.
Judas Priest lost to The Mars Volta and Metallica in the Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance categories, respectively, while Daft Punk beat out a bunch of other crap (including Madonna and Moby) in both the Best Dance Recording and Best Electronic/Dance Album categories.
Coldplay (“Viva la Vida”) beat out Estelle and Kanye West (the aforementioned “American Boy”) for the Song of the Year songwriting award, along with a bunch of other pedestrian stuff, including “Chasing Pavements” by Adele, who did, however, win for Best New Artist and Best Female Vocal Pop Performance for “Pavements”.
Radiohead won the Best Alternative Music Album award for In Rainbows, while Coldplay won Best Rock Album and Ne-Yo took two of the top R&B awards.
Not to be outdone by Jennifer Hudson, American Idol winner Carrie Underwood won Best Female Country Vocal Performance, as she is still MY American Idol.
Juanes won the Best Latin Pop Album, for La Vida… Es un Ratico, while Jaguares took the Best Latin Rock Album, and Los Pikadientes de Caborca were robbed in the Best Regional Mexican Album category.
They Might Be Giants picked up an award for their children’s album, Here Come the 123s, while George Carlin picked up a posthumous nod for Best Comedy Album (It’s Bad for Ya).
Rick Rubin won his 382nd Grammy, for Producer of Year, beating out will.i.am, Danger Mouse, Nigel Godrich and some other guy who’s responsible for a bunch of crap music.
For a more complete list, go here. I didn’t watch any of the performances since I didn’t see the show since I had to work, otherwise I would have posted a recap, but here are a few notes from other sites:
U2 opened the show. Al Green, Justin Timberlake, Boyz II Men and Keith Urban did a big ol’ performance of “Let’s Stay Together”, where Al schooled them all.
Kid Rock performed that damn Warren Zevon/Lynyrd Skynyrd rip-off song. If you like that song, and happen to be one of the people who like to play it in the jukebox at bars, I will stab you.
Miley Cyrus performed with Taylor Swift, managing to go an entire three minutes without making an ass of herself.
The Jonas Brothers performed “Superstition” with Stevie Wonder, while Katy Perry‘s performance was mediocre but she looked quite worthy of the dilsnick.
Hova, Kanye and M.I.A. performed “Swagga Like Us” with two other choads. This was Kanye’s second performance, as he had also performed “American Girl” with Estelle, giving him two spearates chances to show off his throwback Lionel Richie mullet.
Dave Grohl performed a slew of Beatles hits with Paul McCartney, while Radiohead shared the stage for their first-ever Grammy performance with the University of Southern California marching band.
Neil Diamond made an appearance, performing “Sweet Caroline”. I dthoroughly enjoy that song, but again, if you are one of those people who likes to pick it from bar jukeboxes, you and all of your frat buddies are getting separate kicks in the balls.
(Wikipedia.org, MTV.com, WENN.com, EW.com)
