Brian McKnight Shuts Down Fans With Receipts As Proof Of Sold-Out Shows, Months After Nasty Remarks About His Elderly Kids

We have some excellent news for all of the loyal Brian McKnight fans living in Detroit!

More than three months after McKnight’s Motor City concert was canceled, the 55-year-old singer has informed his loyal fans that the concert might not be canceled entirely just yet.

Many suspected the cancellation was as a consequence of low ticket sales or the ridicule he received for his disparaging remarks about older children. But he says that is not true.

On September 1, McKnight shared the news together with his social media followers, explaining the actual reason the show was canceled. Towards the top of the two-minute, 41-second clip, McKnight said he needed to “quickly mention Detroit.”

“I love my fans in Detroit,” he said. “I’ve been playing there every year for 30 (years) and I sell out every time. But my last show was advertised on Facebook, and these bullies jumped into the comments and threatened me and the people who were coming.”

The “Back At One” singer said he and a promoter named Bill felt canceling the show was in everyone’s best interest, “choosing safety over money.” The Detroit show can be rescheduled for a later date in 2025.

The “bullies” McKnight refers to reportedly canceled his event due to the offensive comments he made about his 4 oldest biological children. He called them “the products of sin” and even implied that they were evil.

In a post on April 13, McKnight, who’s a Seventh-day Adventist, said, “To live a life you love, you must get rid of evil and negativity — even if that evil and negativity are related.”

One fan called McKnight’s video a disownment of his children, to which McKnight quickly responded, “1. God didn’t talk about children being a product of sin, which these are. 2. I didn’t raise them, their mothers did. 3. Get the whole story before you quote the Bible. 4. Remove your inaccurate negativity from my page and try to be happy.”

Many fans were disgusted by McKnight’s response, and the drama together with his children ultimately affected his tour. Not only did fans vow to not go to his Detroit show, but his D.C. show, originally scheduled for July, was also postponed until November.

But within the Sept. 1 video, he does greater than just report on Detroit. He also calls out news outlets for reporting rumors about his family drama and being “desperate for clicks,” and assures viewers that he still has a variety of devoted fans.

Running the headline “Brian McKnight’s Ticket Sales Down as Fans Continue to Boycott His Music” and adding footage of his sold-out shows, McKnight said, “There are so many false narratives out there about my fans stopping supporting me. I wanted to acknowledge that just because something is reported on Instagram or YouTube doesn’t mean it’s true.”

He then read a letter from Rochelle Robinson, the mayor of Douglasville, a suburb of Atlanta, thanking him for coming to town to perform.

The letter reads, “As evidenced by the sold-out show, our citizens are huge fans and were excited when they heard you were coming to perform in our city. Thank you for choosing to be here and put on what I know will be a fantastic show,” before hanging up.

McKnight also took a moment to handle radio host and actor Rickey Smiley, who once put in his two cents with regards to “fatherless children,” within the words of McKnight’s oldest son.

“You are not being thrown away, you are not trash, you are being loved, you are being respected,” Smiley said in a social media post in May. “We are usually not here to try to exchange your father, which we are able to’t do, but we may be something for you. Just make certain you grow up and live your life and get the assistance and therapy it’s good to have the ability to maneuver on because words hurt.

He continued, “And she was in so much pain. You know, when you say things like that, it’s a death knell that can’t be turned back.”

In the clip, McKnight added that he desired to create a positive space on his platform called Fatherhood Fridays. He said, “I want my first guest to be Rickey Smiley, who is clearly father of the year. See, it’s easy to hit publish and spew out a one-sided, ignorant perspective, but are you manly and fatherly enough to come to my platform and talk? Come on, let’s talk, Rick.”

McKnight has five older children: Brian Jr., Niko, Brian, Clyde, and Braylinn. Brian Jr. and Niko are from his ex-wife Julie, to whom he was married from 1990 to 2003. Briana’s mother is Patricia Diver, and McKnight fathered Clyde with an unknown woman. His teenage daughter Braille is with a lady named Lori Beth, whom he rarely mentions.

McKnight’s three oldest children have publicly admitted that they were abandoned by the singer, but McKnight has vehemently denied this.

However, the “Anytime” singer has boastfully claimed to have stepchildren with current wife Leilani, while denouncing his older biological children. McKnight and Lelani now have a son, and last 12 months he announced that he had legally modified his name to Brian Kainoa Makoa McKnight Sr. to match his son — making him a junior, although his first son is already a junior.

On his social media profile, McKnights writes that he’s the “father of Julia, Jack, Kekoa Matteo, and Brian Kainoa Makoa McKnight Jr.”, deliberately isolating himself from any contact together with his 4 other children.

The “Anytime” singer also admitted that he “never liked anyone” before meeting his now-wife.

However, McKnight’s recent confession was not welcomed as fans reminded him of his behavior towards his children over the past few months.

“Nobody blows us away like we do? Is that true? That’s f—k!ng d—“Khead sat there and said his biological children were created from sin and that he never loved his wife. But at the identical time he loves, praises and takes care of one other man’s children,” one person wrote on Lipstick Alley.

“You can’t make this shit up. Hey Brian, book Madison Square Garden and let us know. Those little 4×4 bar room clubs that max out at 75 people don’t count, man.”

Other he said“this fool described his oldest children as ‘…born in sin…’ AT THE SAME TIME ONE OF THEM WAS UNDERGOING CHEMOTHERAPY FOR STAGE 3 CANCER. And let’s not even mention how he described his daughter as promiscuous, knowing full well she was molested as a minor.” They continued, “Anyone who goes to this clown’s shows is either unaware of his trashy personality and behavior, or stupid.”

During the net disputes, McKnight’s 25-year-old son, Niko, revealed on the X show, he said he was attempting to develop their relationship while he was in hospital in April as a consequence of complications from cancer.

Niko claimed he asked his father to inform him he loved him, but said McKnight “couldn’t arbitrarily tell me he loved me. It still hurts so deeply.”

McKnight’s daughter, Briana, sued him in 2021 for defamation and invasion of privacy after she accused her of getting an inappropriate relationship with a member of the family. The case was settled in 2023.