''I Started Thinking About My Younger Brother''
6:00AM ET July 5th, 2012
Contributor : Martin James
A Rocky Williform Company
 Soulja Boy became visibly emotional during Cissy Houston's tribute to her daughter, late pop superstar Whitney Houston, at the 2012 BET Awards. The rapper recently spoke up about the moment and why he became so overwhelmed during Cissy's stirring rendition of "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
"When I was standing there and they started to do the tribute, I started to think about Whitney Houston," he said. "When her mother came onstage, I thought about how a mother was singing about her daughter that was no longer here. A daughter that had died. That's really tough. Then I started thinking about my younger brother that recently passed. I got his name tatted on my arm. [His passing] feels like it happened yesterday. So those things are hard to watch."
"Whitney...this is a woman who you see in photographs with Michael Jackson," he said. "This is a woman who was friends with Michael Jackson, she had so many hits of her own, she worked with other legends, she did a lot. It was touching moment at the BET Awards. Like I said, it was hard for me to watch her mama speak on her. The realization that [Whitney's] not here. To have her mother come out there and sing like that, it was very appropriate. You have to give legends those huge, touching tributes." |
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