Lizzo is typically everybody's favorite person on social media, but she might have put her foot in her mouth in a major way by seemingly expressing her love of fellow star Chris Brown. In a widely-circulated video shared to Twitter, the beloved singer approaches Brown and asks to take a photo with him because, according to Lizzo herself, the rapper is her "favorite person in the whole f***ing world." Lizzo appeared to be backstage at a gig when the incident occurred. Evidently, it was quite recently too, maybe even after she name-dropped Rihanna in her TED Talk (a post on Twitter dates the interaction to October 1, 2021). As NME noted, Brown is quite a controversial figure, to say the very least.
Brown was widely criticized in 2009 after photos of then-girlfriend Rihanna emerged of her looking bruised and swollen following a violent altercation in a car. Brown was later found guilty of felony assault. Likewise, a woman accused the rapper of physically assaulting her at his house earlier this year, while in 2020, Brown settled a sexual assault lawsuit against him out of court over another incident at his house. Lizzo's fans took to Twitter to weep over her association with Brown, with one user simply describing him as "scum." However, several others pointed out other people support the rapper and haven't been subject to the same vitriol.
