Ray J, the 27-year-old brother of Brandy celebrating his first top ten hit, “Sexy Can I (feat. Yung Berg),” wants you to know that despite the attention he’s received for knocking boots with Whitney Houston and Kim Kardashian, he (somehow) still loves women. “A lot of people think of me as being an attention whore or a slut. And I’m not really that. I love being in front of the camera and entertaining. But I do respect women. I’m not disrespectful to anybody that I’m cool with. I just want people to know that I’m not a disrespectful pedophile.” Earlier in the same interview, J described the love and chronic Biggie and Tupac showed the then-underage singer immediately before their respective murders.

I always just hung out with Pac and smoked and chilled. He always used to give young n*gg*s advice to just work hard and never give up on your dreams…I seen Pac the day before they left. Suge bought Snoop, Pac, and Dr. Dre Rolls Royces. I think they all caravanned. The last thing Pac said was, “Aright, little homey, we out.” A day later I found out he got shot.

…I was with Big two days before he died. I smoked two or three blunts with Big. We watched a Lil Kim video. He talked to me about some real sh*t.

Ray J was somehow able to keep this Switzerland-like status between the feuding coasts despite witnessing the very infidelity than intensified the beef between the two legends. “We walked in one day and Faith was sitting on Pac’s lap while Pac was writing a verse…I was like, ‘What the f*ck? I know I’m not? Is that? It can’t?’ Three weeks later, ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ came out.”

How did the young J get the chance to roll these cats? “They know I didn’t grow up in the suburbs. Brandy and myself stayed in Carson. That’s two minutes away from Compton. Everybody on the West Coast — from Suge to Snoop to Michael Conception — know my movement. They know how I lived. That’s why we can all bond like that. We didn’t become successful until [Brandy] was 16 or 17.”

Which would have made him 14 or 15.

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