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Brown Still Blogging, Partying

More from singers' friends, families

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 6, 2009 10:10 AM CST

(Newser) – Chris Brown may have been charged with two felonies, but he still wants you to vote for him to win the Kids’ Choice Awards, Us reports. The singer posted a blog yesterday asking for votes and thanking fans for the support. The charges also weren’t enough to stop him from partying at a Beverly Hills hotel bar until 3:45am, TMZ adds. More on the Rihanna-Brown situation:

Extra—whoops!—forgot to black out the phone numbers in one section of the recently released search warrant application, Gawker reports.
Rihanna’s relatives are happy Brown’s been charged, People notes—“ He should be in jail,” said one relative, while her father wondered, “Why should he hit her?”
Rihanna’s friends, however, “rallied around her, stopped saying bad things about Chris” in an effort to be supportive of her reunion with Brown, MSNBC adds.

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Rihanna arrives at the Clive Davis pre-Grammy party in Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 7, 2009, left, and in this undated photo provided by TMZ, Rihanna is shown after she was beaten, according to TMZ. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles and TMZ)

Chris Brown stands in a courtroom at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles Thursday, March 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Pool, Bob Chamberlin)

Rihanna and Chris Brown perform on stage during Z100's Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden on December 12, 2008 in New York City. (Getty Images)

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It's about time. He should be in jail. He deserves whatever he gets. - A relative of Rihanna

I was annoyed. I never hit my daughter. Why should he hit her? Why would anyone do that? I was crazy, but I don't know the situation and I wasn't there. - Ronald Fenty, Rihanna's father

Everybody loves Rihanna. They don’t necessarily want her with Chris, but the second it was clear she was back with him, all of her friends rallied around her, stopped saying bad things about Chris.
- A friend of Rihanna

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Brown Still Blogging, Partying