Kevin Lyttle’s WWETV interview resurfaces as Chris Brown and Usher bring R&B back to stadiums

As Chris Brown and Usher launch their major R&B stadium tour, WWETV Media is revisiting a Caribbean music receipt from its archive: Kevin Lyttle speaking on Chris Brown using the energy of his global hit “Turn Me On.”

The moment connects perfectly to this week’s WWETV Media music-history cluster, following the rare Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston rehearsal footage that had fans revisiting lost R&B and pop legacy moments.

This time, the story moves from the vocal giants of the past to the Caribbean crossover record that helped travel into a new R&B era.

Kevin Lyttle, best known worldwide for “Turn Me On,” spoke with WorldWide Entertainment TV in a past interview about the impact of the record, its publishing value, and Chris Brown later tapping into the song’s influence for “Questions.”

When asked about Chris Brown using the “Turn Me On” energy, Kevin Lyttle made it clear that he did not view the moment as disrespect.

“I actually approved it,” Kevin Lyttle told WWETV.

He also made another important point: the business side was handled.

“He gave me all of my publishing, so that’s even better — I’m getting paid,” Kevin said in the interview.

That quote is what makes this more than a simple throwback. It is a music-industry receipt.

For years, fans have debated when newer artists sample, interpolate, or borrow from older classics. Sometimes the conversation becomes about theft. Sometimes it becomes about homage. Sometimes it becomes about whether the original creator was properly credited or compensated.

In Kevin Lyttle’s case, his answer was clear: Chris Brown paid respect, and the publishing mattered.

“Turn Me On” was not just another early-2000s hit. It became one of those Caribbean crossover records that moved between soca, dancehall, pop, club music, and R&B. Kevin Lyttle explained in the WWETV interview that the record became so big it took years for some listeners to fully connect the song to the face behind it.

That is the power and the challenge of crossover music.

A song can travel faster than the artist. A rhythm can become global before the culture behind it is fully recognized. That is why this Kevin Lyttle clip matters right now.

Chris Brown and Usher’s tour is being positioned as a stadium-level moment for R&B. It arrives during a time when fans are debating the genre’s place, its influence, and its ability to still command massive stages. But part of the modern R&B sound has always been connected to other Black music traditions: soul, funk, gospel, hip-hop, dancehall, Afrobeats, and Caribbean rhythms.

Kevin Lyttle’s “Turn Me On” sits directly inside that conversation.

When Chris Brown released “Questions,” the connection to “Turn Me On” gave a new generation a way back to Kevin Lyttle’s classic. For Kevin, that was not a loss. It was proof that the record still had power.

WWETV Media is also highlighting the timing because Kevin Lyttle is currently featured in the “Sounds of June” episode airing on BRIC TV. The episode gives broadcast viewers another look at the Caribbean and R&B sound that WWETV has documented through interviews, performances, and archive footage over the years.

That makes this moment bigger than one Short.

It is a broadcast-to-digital bridge.

Viewers watching Kevin Lyttle on BRIC TV can now come back to WWETV Media for the deeper archive receipt: the interview where he explained how he felt about Chris Brown using “Turn Me On,” why publishing matters, and how the record continued to reach another era.

This is also why WWETV Media continues to revisit these archive interviews. The value is not only in what was said years ago. The value is in how those comments connect to the culture right now.

Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston represented a lost vocal moment.

Usher and Chris Brown represent R&B’s current stadium conversation.

Kevin Lyttle represents the Caribbean crossover bridge that helped shape part of that modern R&B language.

And the WWETV archive holds the receipt.

Watch the Kevin Lyttle clip now on WWETV Media and catch him featured in WWETV’s “Sounds of June” airing on BRIC TV.