R. Kelly: Ongoing Legal Process

this is pretty fucked up

from an email I received earlier:
"It is my sincere hope that Tim Russert passed from this earth without
the knowledge that R.Kelly had been set free to inflict further pain on
families across this country."

further piss

^^ needs samples of R. Kelly saying "real talk" after every line

please somebody do this..... it would make my lifetime

The Eleventh Amendment goes as follows:
Celebrities are always innocent and no celebrity shall ever go to jail.

ffs

I'd though you said you'll leave ILX, Marcello.

I'll retract that one.

It's difficult to touch anybody when you spend the whole of your life locked in one room.

[ADMIN: post deleted - over the line]

Good thing you deleted that post, I hope Marcello realizes this sort of bullshit isn't tolerated on ILX anymore.

aw what did i miss :[

"that dude"

Taking up Flex's point about copping some responsibility, why do you think others (industry, DJs, Jay-Z) were comfortable for so long with him when it wasn't a well-kept secret in the first place? Was it just C.R.E.A.M (and the fact he's not on top anymore)? Was there a sense that his private life was private, or just that he wasn't going much further than the regular sex-with-groupies? How does this case work alongside hip hop masculinity / sexuality? Oh no! I just asked for some undergrad Cult. Studies essay...

Taking up Flex's point about copping some responsibility, why do you think others (industry, DJs, Jay-Z) were comfortable for so long with him when it wasn't a well-kept secret in the first place? Was it just C.R.E.A.M (and the fact he's not on top anymore)? Was there a sense that his private life was private, or just that he wasn't going much further than the regular sex-with-groupies? How does this case work alongside hip hop masculinity / sexuality? Oh no! I just asked for some undergrad Cult. Studies essay...

― paulhw, Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Also keep in mind that industry types, especially rap industry types, are shady characters. This child porn charge is a stand-out, to be sure, but shootouts among entourages, gun charges, anddrugs all around the industry don't really make for a soapbox that anyone can preach to R Kelly from. Dangling modifier. I'll be tmost of his buddies just thought she was another groupie - a little young, sure, they don't really go for them like that - but a groupie nonetheless. I'll bet a lot of them even didn't know he liked that. Plus I'll bet people like label dealers and his agent are pretty much just all about the money like you said. And he's still making hits, so, shit, everyone wins, except the girl that got peed on.

what experience do you have with "rap industry types" exactly...?

maybe he's a rapper :)

everyone wins, except the girl that got peed on.

Probably already been posted but what the hey:

When you say teenage, how old we talkin'?

thanx i wanted to post that with the flex one but couldn't find it

Wtf @ this thread

very happy about the verdict here

Don't forget about can't pee on u

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult

http://www.avclub.com/article/one-r-kellys-alleged-victims-says-he-paid-her-not--259765

This remains horrendous.

Wtf @ this thread

― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, December 20, 2013 10:40 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno about right or wrong but Ilx used to be at least interesting. Now its the same vaginal-male perspective you get literally everywhere else

whut

listen I'm just a regular guy, I put my vagina on one leg at a time like everybody else

also lol @ my shaggs/keef dn not my best work

"Internet liberal" might be a better/less self-consciously aggressive term but it does feel a lot more unified politically than it used to. A lot of positions on issues, it's just taken for granted we all agree, there's less discussion. Not sure I mind really, "discussions" used to get p fractious and unpleasant.

i dunno about right or wrong but Ilx used to be at least interesting. Now its the same vaginal-male perspective you get literally everywhere else

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 02:29 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, for the good old days when people were straight-up underage rape apologists.

https://news.avclub.com/lifetime-is-taking-on-r-kelly-with-a-docuseries-and-mo-1825860397

lol Lifetime, so brave, surely they are doing this in order to damage his career rather than profit off of it

Embattled R&B star R Kelly has been filmed telling a room full of people it is "too late" for his musical influence to be curtailed.

The video was originally uploaded to Facebook on 17 May, as the singer faced fresh allegations of sexual misconduct.

"I'm handcuffed by my destiny," he says, clutching a cigar. "They should've did this [expletive] 30 years ago.

"It's too late. The music has been injected into the world."

well he's right about that

otoh, legacies can be erased

i don't think R Kelly is going to get many new fans down the road, that's one way to do it.

on the other hand, it's crazy what fans will say to defend him, how they'll still believe he's being railroaded or even did nothing wrong.

BREAKING: Embattled R&B superstar R. Kelly was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Cook County Friday morning, records show. https://t.co/H7k2Ind5F7

— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) February 22, 2019

That only took ... years and years of inaction and unrepentant repugnant behavior.

don't forget the michael jackson-style messianic self-aggrandizing songs!

What in the everloving fuck @ this thread.

lol Lifetime, so brave, surely they are doing this in order to damage his career rather than profit off of it

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 11:11 AM (nine months ago)

Damn, Shakey, this was cynical!

that's a weird comment

why not both?

Beyond why not both, they also undoubtedly had to factor in the risk of a defamation claim

HBO actually is being sued by the Jackson Estate for airing the "Leaving Neverland" doc (though that's a wild-seeming contractual claim based on a 1992 agreement for airing a concert, in which HBO apparently agreed "not make any disparaging remarks" about Jackson)

this thread title is very internet-2002 in a bad way