The gossip website also reported that the LAPD has tried to prevent clubs from booking Chris Brown because his gang entourage has encouraged violence.

But in an interview with Sway Calloway for MTV News, the singer claims that his relationships are nothing like what TMZ claims. "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 said. "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."