"Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it"
About this Quote
The line works because it recasts moral judgment as mere behavior, almost a natural function. "Haters" aren’t critics with reasons; they’re a category, a type. That move drains the arguments of their content and turns them into noise. The joke in "somebody’s gotta do it" is that hate becomes public service, a dirty task delegated to faceless others. It’s a sly reversal: the person under scrutiny claims the higher ground by acting indifferent, even amused.
Subtextually, it’s also a plea for narrative control. Brown’s career sits inside a long-running cultural fight over accountability, redemption, and what audiences are willing to separate from the art. By treating backlash as inevitable and impersonal, the quote sidesteps the hardest question - whether the anger is warranted - and swaps it for an easier one: why are you so obsessed?
In pop culture, that posture plays well because it’s instantly quotable, meme-ready, and defensively catchy. It doesn’t resolve controversy; it metabolizes it into momentum.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Brown, Chris. (2026, January 18). Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/haters-keep-on-hating-cause-somebodys-gotta-do-it-16795/
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Brown, Chris. "Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/haters-keep-on-hating-cause-somebodys-gotta-do-it-16795/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/haters-keep-on-hating-cause-somebodys-gotta-do-it-16795/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.











