Kelly,” is an extremely important piece of reporting, and the number of survivors, family members, former business associates, and people close to Kelly who share close and personal stories about his years of addiction, manipulation and alleged abuse of women and girls will be eye-opening to those who haven't followed the details of Kelly coverage across two decades. So the signs were there in the songs that abuse allegations against Kelly carried weight, but his friends and family - along with the media, the music industry and his loyal fans - fumbled the ball over and over again. The idea of comparing black women like my mother, who risked her life to bring me into this world, or my fiancée, whom I couldn’t even begin to imagine a life without, is beyond crazy psychotic even.

Jeeps and bank accounts are property - something that someone owns - and knowing the history of this country, no black person in their right mind should be OK with being called property, nor identifying another person as such. Girl you look just like my cars, I wanna wax it You remind me of my Jeep, I wanna ride it For example, here's the hook from his hit song, “You Remind Me of Something”: I fell off the Kelly train and even became disgusted with him when I got a little older and started analyzing his lyrics.

But when my sister told me he married his 15-year-old protégé Aaliyah (which he has always denied), and I responded with something like, “shouldn’t she be playing with kids my age?” All the kids at my middle school bumped him. Kelly's music - hip hop twirled with R&B in a gritty way - was cool when I was a juvenile. Kelly,” dream hampton's detailed look at the musician's history of epic narcissism and disturbing allegations of a long-standing pattern of sexual abuse and domestic violence from multiple accusers, including those who were teenagers when they say the abuse happened.īefore I go any further, I’d like to give full disclosure: I did think R. This week Lifetime premiered its six-part docuseries “Surviving R.

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