Anyone who's been listening to Chris Moyles' breakfast show recently will have probably heard Tina Daheley's version of this track. Whilst it's a semi-joke, it's probably the superior version.
Chris Brown seems to be attempting something of a comeback after the fallout following his split with Rihanna. She's on top, he's playing catch-up.
He's teamed up with young British rapper Chipmunk for this track. Sure, the chorus hook is catchy and it's got a good beat. But the rest of Champion is totally uninspired - Brown is trying far too hard to self-consciously reinvigorate his image. It's hardly "the meanest shit I ever wrote". Even the pretentiously cool video is dull: a copy of TI's Dead and Gone feat Justin Timberlake, just with a different shade of sepia.
The real champion here? Tina Daheley and the Radio 1 breakfast team.
2/5
