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Brian McKnight may have the voice of an angel, but lately he’s proving that it’s the only beautiful part of him.

In a recent Instagram Q&A, the singer once again disparaged his four oldest biological children, calling them a “product of sin.”

“In order to live a life that you love, you have to get rid of the evil and the negativity — even if that evil and negativity is related,” he said in response to a user’s comment.

When another person questioned his actions toward his children, saying that “disowning” them goes “against God,” he offered a condescending explanation of his behavior.

“1. God wasn’t talking about children that are the product of sin which these are 2. I didn’t raise them their mothers did,” McKnight replied. “3. Know the whole story before quoting the Bible 4. Take your inaccurate negativity off my page and try being happy.”

Seriously, what kind of person publicly calls his children the “product of sin?” Why does the “Back at One” singer insist on airing his family’s dirty laundry in front of the whole world? Obviously you don’t care about embarrassing your kids, but what about yourself? Allowing the whole world to see what a deadbeat dad you are doesn’t seem like the smartest career move.

The singer’s son Niko McKnight responded to his father’s hurtful words on social media, telling The ShadeRoom, “I’m evil. That’s wild: The guy who used to make me clean his used condoms out his bathroom at 15 before Lisa got home is calling me evil Fashoooooo,” he told The Shaderoom.

“The guy who forged [signatures] on our names is evil fashoooooooo,” Niko added.

Niko also took to X to express his disappointment in his father, as well as to confess that he still cares about him.

“We were bad children, sure. Yes. But my sisters have always deserved better. They don’t deserve this outright disrespect,” he wrote. “Hate us all day. You don’t get to be a piece of shit forever and still skate by with all that we know.”

“We saved that man from federal prison. That’s all I’m going to say. But after all of this, I still love him so much because I know there’s my dad in there somewhere. But he’s a drone now. So f*****g sad. I miss you, Dad. Marcus Aurelius. Superman.”

McKnight’s ex-wife Julie responded in an Instagram video, expressing her desire to move on, though the singer seems determined to keep this messiness going.

“The point at the end of every negative situation, whether it’s an illness, whether it’s a fool that you have to deal with because they keep entering your life when you are no longer giving any more energy to it, it’s to only keep you down to where they thought they had you because they were the author of an extremely abusive situation emotionally, mentally,” she said.

We’re all familiar with messy family situations, but the constant disrespect by McKnight has caused this to take on a life of its own. If he truly doesn’t want to have anything to do with his children, he should stop mentioning them and traumatizing them with these deeply hurtful public insults.

And it may be hard for his kids to read this, but at a certain point you can’t keep giving energy to a one way street. He’s an adult who’s made his choice and you need to focus on yourself and move on.