Chris Brown and Rihanna reuniting on a song (well, two) 3 years after their “incident” has been the talk of the town since news broke it was coming. The Dream was the producer behind “Birthday Cake“, and naturally, people are looking to him for a comment on the situation. It IS pretty controversial, after all. Read what he had to say below.

Marisa Mendez

Via Billboard:

“For me, it’s just music — two talented people doing a record together, doing two records together, and that’s what it was. It wasn’t about an incident that happened. The true thing really is to forgive, and… you want to believe in people.”

“I think [the topic] that should be more on the tongues is: how do we proclaim to be a nation of forgiving, and we go by all of these rules and everything, but we can’t actually do it? It actually makes you look weaker than your adversary — if you don’t have the power to forgive, but you lie and say that you did.”

“Because this is about her. If she can forgive, that’s where she is mentally. As a friend, it’s like, ‘Okay, cool. Let’s roll.’”