THE FALL OF R&B SINGER R. KELLY
R&B singer Robert Sylvester Kelly, known as R. Kelly, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for federal racketeering and sex trafficking.
Kelly used his fame to lure underage girls to his home and held them against their will. Kelly now fifty-five, set the stage for his sexual addiction and attraction to underage girls when he married 15-year-old Aaliyah Houghton in 1994. Kelly who was 27 years of age at the time wrote the hit song, “Age Aint’t Nothing but A Number, going down ain’t nothing but a thang” for Aaliyah’s first hit album. Kelly met Aaliyah when she was just 12 years old.
Kelly’s sexual addiction was apparent in every song written by the famed R&B artist. I Believe I Can Fly is probably the only hit song written and recorded by the Kelly that wasn’t about sex.
Prior to the recent conviction, Kelly was indicted in 2002 of child pornography charges stemming from a sex video showing him with an underaged girl.
In addition to Kelly’s fetish for minors, he was an abusive husband, so abusive that injuries sustained by his pregnant wife almost led to the death of their unborn child. Labor was induced to save the child’s life. Kelly’s other three children do not have a relationship with him. His daughter describes him as a “Monster” after she was threatened to make, “the right choice,” when she came out as transgender.
I must admit, my favorite R. Kelly song is titled, Do What You Want With My Body, which Kelly wrote and recorded with Lady Gaga, who expressed regretting having recorded the song after Kelly’s conviction of child pornography charges.
When I heard the song, Bump and Grind, I didn’t see anything wrong it either, as long as the bump and grind was between two consenting adults, but Kelly message was more about casual, no commitment intimate relationships.
It is profoundly disturbing that no one in R. Kelly’s entourage, no friends, family, business associates, artists, agents, or music industry contractors would not break the silent code and report to the proper authorities that this man was a pedophile and sex trafficker. Money over Morals.
Kelly’s lawyer should advise him not to sing Sex Me Baby in prison, or he will truly wish he could fly.
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