Chris Brown Says He Is Not Affiliated with Gangs [WATCH]

Recent reports have called Chris Brown out for being affiliated with gangs in Los Angeles, but the singer told MTV's Sway Calloway that those reports are wrong.

"When you're in L.A. and you're around people, you meet everybody — you meet Crips, you meet Bloods, especially in this industry that I'm in," he told MTV News earlier this month. "I'm not in the country world, I'm not in the all-the-way pop world. [When] you're in hip-hop, all of that meshes."

A recent TMZ story reported that Brown's family and girlfriend have been trying to get his therapist to stop the entertainer from endangering himself by associating with gangs.

Brown told Calloway that he is "cordial" around gang members, but far from affiliated.

"It's never disrespect," he added.

The TMZ story went on to say that after a stabbing that occurred last week after a Brown performance, law officials in Los Angeles began trying to persuade club owners in the area to not book the singer.

Last month, Brown hosted an album release party in Hollywood where former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight was shot six times along with two other victims.

"I realize that what I do for a living opens my life to public scrutiny and that I have a responsibility to everyone because of that exposure," Brown told Billboard after the shootings. "I can say that I am only human and I have made mistakes. I can say that I try to live my life in the most true, honest way that I can. I am not perfect, no one is."

X, Brown's sixth studio effort, is out now.

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