Lionel Richie hits out at Usher and Chris Brown’s joint tour: “We didn’t go to jail”

Lionel Richie has criticised Usher and Chris Brown‘s joint live tour. Check out the video of the moment below. The pair’s current North American co-headline trek, dubbed ‘The R&B Tour’, kicked off in late June. Usher has made headlines on the run, thanks to a sensual on stage routine with audience members. Richie, who has been touring with Earth, Wind & Fire, took a moment during a recent concert to mock Usher and Brown. “Usher and Chris Brown, see they [are] trying to do something new,” he said (via The Independent). “The Commodores with Earth, Wind & Fire, we were doing that back 40 years ago. Only difference is – between then and now – we didn’t go to jail.” Richie then responded to the crowd’s applause and laughter by apologising for bringing up Brown’s legal history. “I’m sorry. They’re fine Christian men,” he went on. That’s right. See, we didn’t have that Instagram, and that TikTok and that go out and tell a lie and then go post it. What the hell was that?” Brown was notably convicted for assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. The singer was sentenced to five years’ probation and 180 days of community labour. He served 108 days of his 131-day prison sent...