Chris Brown changes his ways thanks to new daughter Royalty?

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Carolyn Robertson

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Did you hear the news? Chris Brown is reportedly a dad.

According to several sources, the 25-year-old singer welcomed a baby girl named Royalty 9 months ago. The mother isn't Chris' longtime girlfriend Karrueche Tran, but a former model named Nia who he's known for years.

Though he's yet to address the reports, they were enough to make Karrueche publicly call off their on-again-off-again relationship: "Listen. One can only take so much," she Tweeted when the baby news broke. "The best of luck to Chris and his family. No baby drama for me."

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Karrueche isn't the only one who's had a change of heart. Sources close to the controversial singer insist that becoming a father has "humbled" him and forced him to think twice about the way he refers to women in his music.

"He would hate for someone to one day call his daughter a bitch or a hoe. That would make him very upset and he would have a big problem with someone disrespecting his daughter. Everyday he realises he's a father, to a girl no less, and he wants to start making changes to raise his girl right and to be a good example of a man," a source tells HollywoodLife.com. "He really doesn't want to continue making music where he's calling women bitches and hoes and other derogatory words."

You may recall Jay-Z, whose lyrics famously declare he has "99 problems but a bitch ain't one," came to a similar realization after he and Beyonce welcomed daughter Blue Ivy in 2012.

A week after her birth he rapped, “Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/I didn’t think hard about using the word bitch/I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it/Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it.”

I find it a bit curious that it takes having a daughter to make some men think twice about the way they refer to women. What about their mothers? Sisters? Female teachers and colleagues? Wives? Surely they're all deserving of that same respect, too.

Whatever the reason, though, here's hoping it's a change that sticks. Young girls don't need to grow up hearing that they're bitches and hoes, that their worth is determined by what they can do for a man or how good they look in a g-string. We hear all of this so often that even I'm guilty of not paying it too much attention. If there's a good beat behind it, who cares how derogatory the lyrics are?

We should care, though. Whether we're writing them or speaking them or singing them or consuming them, words have power.

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