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October 22nd, 2009 at 4:11 am

Chris Brown Angie Martinez Interview on Hot 97 10-21-09 [Full Audio]

Here is the full Angie Martinez interview with Chris Brown, broadcast Oct. 21, 2009 on New York radio station Hot 97. It was the R&B singer-songwriter’s first radio interview since the domestic violence incident with former girlfriend pop star Rihanna, which resulted in his felony conviction.

The full interview can be heard here via YouTube:

He addressed a range of topics surrounding the domestic violence incident in February 2009, addressed the controversy over his Larry King interview earlier this year (noting that he was wearing a bow tie, just as he did for that interview). He also addressed rumors regarding Jay-Z, denying that there was a conflict. Regarding resuming he career, he conceded that he felt like an “underdog.” Some additional key excerpts via MTV News. Regarding Oprah Chris Brown said in the interview:

“At the time, when I think I needed a helping hand, for her to reach out to me and talk to Rihanna and say this is wrong and this is right, or whatever the case may be…Not even to be on the show; just make it about helping. Because at the end of the day I thought we had that type of relationship where it could be like that.”

“At the time, when I think I needed a helping hand, for her to reach out to me and talk to Rihanna and say this is wrong and this is right, or whatever the case may be,” he told Martinez during the radio appearance. “Not even to be on the show; just make it about helping. Because at the end of the day I thought we had that type of relationship where it could be like that.”

He noted that both Will Smith and Diddy had reached out to him offering help.

“As a young black man myself, I need older black male role models to step in and kind of mold me. Not people bashing me, ’cause that’s not how you learn from mistakes,” he said.

The summary continues: Chris Brown Talks Oprah, Jay-Z In Hot 97 Interview

His forthcoming third studio album, Graffiti will be released in Dec. 2009. The latest single, Crawl, can be heard via the video below.