You know, we have the black world who grew up with him. Half of the black world despises him and half of the black world is, "My babies were conceived to his music and the man was acquitted and get off his dick." But the white hipster world, I cannot understand or condone. It makes me sick to my stomach that they can listen to "Trapped In the Closet" and "Sex in the Kitchen" and "I'm your sexasaurus" and hear it as hypersexualized schtick. In fact, his entire canon of music is a documentation of his hedonistic desires, which, if you do any sort of examination of the context means, "I’m free to pursue underage black girls as I please because I’m R. Kelly, the Pied Piper of R&B , the sexual super freak." Those are his words. That’s what he calls himself. It’s not like he has been guilty of a lack of truth in advertising.
I don’t know. I don’t know. The thing that’s even more horrifying is most of those Weinstein accusations, the ones that have brought down powerful white men, Matt Lauer, Fox News. They all happened in the past. Remember the Lauer story? He had a button in his office that he could seal the door and harass a woman who is in his office. Imagine you’re walking by that office and you hear screams and you keep walking. Well, that’s what’s happening with Kelly, because if we believe these parents in Florida, these parents in Georgia, these parents in North Carolina, their daughters who are now of legal age are being held against their will. Mentally, physically abused, separated from their parents, told when to eat, when to sleep, when to dress, how to pleasure him in encounters that he records, and they’re punished if they break any of his so-called rules. These are women who are in trouble right now as you and I talk. Aside from well-being check in Illinois, one well-being check in Georgia, law enforcement’s done nothing. Live Nation has done nothing. Sony Music has done nothing. The activists in the new R. Kelly movement are trying to raise awareness, but these women are locked behind the door right now.
Ben Zand explores allegations surrounding the sex life of R&B legend R Kelly, including accusations of holding women against their will in his home in Atlanta and running a degrading sex cult - allegations he...
