…some of the alleged acts for which Kelly was arrested in a child pornography case in 2002 when he was 35 and then acquitted six years later.”
While the story is still developing, the entertainment industry had already begun to turn its back on Kelly. A growing number of radio stations, streaming services, and other industry entities have made the decision to remove Kelly’s music from their rotation and archives.
Stay tuned here with the latest developments from this breaking news.
Surviving R. Kelly: Black Girls Deserve Better
Long before the #MeToo movement that shed light on women who have been abused by men of power in Hollywood, there was another group of women who were going through many of the same things for years, but they were young, much younger and silenced. All of this seemed to go down at the hands of superstar R&B singer R. Kelly.
In Lifetime’s new three-part docuseries, “Surviving R. Kelly,” a number of women speak out about the abuse they suffered at the hand of the “Pied Piper of R&B.” Kelly has done all of this in the background of creating hit after hit after hit of music that many of us have danced to, grinded to, made love to or sang along with.
Yet, this is nothing new to followers of his music.
Even before the infamous sex tape emerged in the early-2000’s, during which R. Kelly is seen urinating on an alleged minor, the singer had openly carried out a romantic relationship with his protégée, Aaliyah, when she was just