{"id":108883,"date":"2025-05-17T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108883\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T11:22:10","slug":"musician-charged-with-us-singer-chris-brown-in-alleged-london-nightclub-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108883\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician charged with US singer Chris Brown in alleged London nightclub attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A fellow musician and friend of Chris Brown has been charged alongside the Grammy-winning singer on allegations they beat and seriously injured a music producer at a London nightclub in 2023, police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Omololu Akinlolu, 38, who performs under the name Hoody Baby, was due to appear in Manchester Magistrates\u2019 Court on a charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, 36, was <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3310538\/us-rb-singer-chris-brown-arrested-uk-connection-2023-assault-reports?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">jailed without bail<\/a> on the same charge on Friday, throwing his coming tour into question. He is scheduled to appear at Southwark Crown Court in London on June 13, which is the third day of his world tour.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US rapper Brown, often called by his nickname Breezy, burst onto the music scene as a teen in 2005. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0a9963e5-7c59-4fbe-93fa-91a298a6bb82_a162e6fa.jpg\" title=\"US rapper Brown, often called by his nickname Breezy, burst onto the music scene as a teen in 2005. Photo: AFP\"\/>US rapper Brown, often called by his nickname Breezy, burst onto the music scene as a teen in 2005. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Akinlolu is a rapper from Dallas, Texas, who has collaborated with Brown and Lil Wayne. He also goes by the names Fat Leopard and Super Hood.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Police gave no details on what role Akinlolu played in the alleged assault but said he was charged in connection with the same incident as Brown.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Brown was on tour in the UK in February 2023 when he launched an unprovoked attack on producer Abe Diaw, striking him several times with a bottle at the Tape nightclub in the swanky Mayfair neighbourhood in London, prosecutor Hannah Nicholls said in court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Brown then chased Diaw and punched and kicked him in an attack caught on surveillance camera in front of a club full of people, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fellow musician and friend of Chris Brown has been charged alongside the Grammy-winning singer on allegations they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[49603,1476,19430,49609,748,49610,47960,18589,393,49605,49608,4884,49606,49604,49607,257,48743,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-108883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-abe-diaw","9":"tag-amsterdam","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-breezy","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-bryson-tiller","14":"tag-chris-brown","15":"tag-dallas","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-fat-leopard","18":"tag-grammy","19":"tag-great-britain","20":"tag-hoody-baby","21":"tag-jhene-aiko","22":"tag-lil-wayne","23":"tag-london","24":"tag-lowry-hotel","25":"tag-manchester","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114522917679280115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}