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R. Kelly’s first post-jail performance was 28 seconds long
Article via CNN
R. Kelly has given his first performance since getting out of jail and reportedly it was brief.According to CNN affiliates WICS and WRSP, the singer made an appearance at Dirty South Lounge in Springfield, Illinois, early Sunday morning.
Kelly reportedly arrived around 1:30 a.m. where he spent a little over half an hour taking selfies, chatting, dancing and smoking cigars with those who had gathered to see him.
He then grabbed a microphone, thanked his supporters and sang 28 seconds of one of his songs before the venue closed at 3 a.m., WICS and WRSP reported. The fee had been $100 for the event, but that was reduced to $50 after Kelly arrived, it was reported. Hours before he was set to appear Kelly announced the event on his official Instagram account and appealed to the media.
“I want the media to take it easy on me man,” Kelly said in the video. “This is how I got to get paid right now, for right now.” The singer was released on bail last month for in case in which authorities have said he failed to pay his ex-wife child support of $161,000. Kelly also faces 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse — a Class 2 felony — involving four alleged victims.
Kelly has vehemently denied any allegations of sexual misconduct.Last month his legal team filed a request asking the court to grant Kelly permission to travel to Dubai to perform shows as they argued he needs to work to pay child support and other bills. That request was later put on hold by Kelly’s attorneys.
Kelly’s attorney, Steve Greenberg, told CNN in a statement about his Dirty South Lounge appearance that “Months ago a show was scheduled in Springfield, and this was the “aftershow” party.””Although the show was canceled the nightclub asked him to still appear,” Greenberg said. “Because a commitment is a commitment he lived up to his, made the 3 hr drive, and appeared. Promoting and pricing were up to the club.”
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Gayle King fires back at the Fox News host who mistook her for Robin Roberts: ‘All black people do not look alike’
Article via Business Insider
- The “CBS This Morning” host Gayle King has weighed in about being mixed up with ABC News’ Robin Roberts.
- The Fox News host Jesse Watters confused the two black journalists on Wednesday, praising King for “redeeming herself” for an interview that Roberts had done.
- Watters has apologized for the mistake.
- King told the “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Thursday that she had reached out to Watters’ colleague Dana Perino and asked her to “let the rest of your colleagues know that all black people don’t look alike.”
Gayle King, the “CBS This Morning” host who recently earned praise for her composure during an emotional interview with R. Kelly, spoke out about the Fox News host who confused her with Robin Roberts, the anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Fox News’ Jesse Watters praised King on a Wednesday episode of “The Five” for “totally redeeming herself after the Smollett fiasco.”
But his cohost Dana Perino quickly stepped in to correct him, saying King had not conducted a recent, highly criticized interview with the actor Jussie Smollett; Roberts had.
“Oh, I knew that,” Watters responded before apologizing for the mistake.
Watters had been referring to Roberts’ interview with Smollett on February 12, just days before Smollett was arrested and charged with filing a false police report about an attack the Chicago police believe he staged.
Roberts was accused of being too sympathetic to Smollett during the interview and failing to challenge him on certain inconsistencies with his story.
Watters drew scorn for mixing up the two prominent black journalists, and on Thursday evening, the “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert asked King to weigh in on the situation.
R. Kelly’s two girlfriends defend him in heated CBS interview
Article via PageSix
R. Kelly’s two girlfriends are accusing their estranged parents of lying about their relationship with the R&B singer for money — with one even claiming that her parents forced her to “take sexual videos” with him.
Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary defended their relationship with the 52-year-old accused sexual abuser in a heated interview with “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King that aired Thursday.
Clary, 21, called her father a “manipulative liar.”
“OK, so when I first met Robert, my parents told me to lie about my age. So when I met him, he thought that I was 18,” Clary explained. “On top of that, when I was 17, my parents were actually making me, trying to get me to take photos with him, take sexual videos with him, all kinds of stuff.”
“Wait, wait, wait. Your parents encouraged you to do sexual videos with R. Kelly?” King asked.
“Yes, and they said, because if they ever have to blackmail him, what they’re trying to do now, they can use it against him, which is exactly what they’re doing,” she replied.
Savage, 23, who was seated next to Clary, nodded and chimed in, “Everything that she’s saying is true.”
“Both our parents are basically out here trying to get money and scam, because they didn’t agree on what happened, you know, with music or whatever it could be. And they’re just very upset,” Savage added.
The parents of both women have repeatedly insisted that their daughters have been brainwashed by the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer and said they haven’t had contact with them in years.
Clary’s family has also said they have text messages that indicate she was having sex with him at age 17.
“No. No, that is a lie. That is a lie,” she told King. “I was not having sex with him at 17.”
When King told Clary she spoke to her father ahead of the sit-down and he “told a very different story,” Clary doubled down.
“He’s very manipulative, so he’s the one you need to watch out for,” she said. “But my dad and my mom, they started to send threats to both me and him. They said, ‘Oh, I’ll put all your naked pictures all over the world. I’m going to ruin you, I’m going to ruin him. If he doesn’t send $20,000 to this bank account by Monday, oh, I’m gonna put everything out there, and then $10,000 after that.’ You’re trying to solicit me like I’m some f–king ho. I’m not, I’m your child.”
“Exactly,” Savage agreed.
Clary burst into tears when King acknowledged that she sounded “very angry with your parents.”
“Tell me, Azriel, why you’re crying, tell me,” King pressed.
“I’m crying, because you guys don’t know the truth!” she exploded. “You guys believe in some f–king facade that our parents are saying. This is all f–king lies for money, and if you can’t see that, you’re ignorant and you’re stupid as f–k because you want to be. All because that’s the world we live in. Negativity sells, gossip is what sells, rumors are what sell.”
In his first interview since being charged with 10 counts of sexual abuse, including against minors, Kelly erupted with rage as he hysterically defended himself against decades of sexual abuse allegations.
“I didn’t do this stuff! This is not me! I’m fighting for my f–king life!” he screamed in the interview with King that aired Wednesday.
The same day, he was taken into custody for failing to pay $161,000 in child support.
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R. Kelly Sex Tape Screenshots Tweeted Out By Attorney Michael Avenatti
Article via HotNewHipHop
Michael Avenatti says the visual proof “leaves no question” in Kelly’s guilt.
R. Kelly is facing 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against four alleged victims. The case built against the singer is strong, according to attorney Michael Avenatti, who is currently representing six clients including two alleged victims, two parents and two “whistleblowers.”
Avenatti recently tweeted screenshots from the sex tape that led to R. Kelly’s arrest on Friday, February 22. The will not be included on this page due to their sensitive nature. After receiving criticism for having published the content, Avanetti defended his decision. “These are all of R. Kelly. No minor is depicted or shown,” he stated, shortly after sharing the screenshots.
“The tape was shot in the late ‘90s, approximately 1999, it depicts two separate scenes shot on two separate days within Mr. Kelly’s residence at the time,” Avenatti explained. “The audio on the tape, you can clearly listen to it — it is clear — the video is far superior to the video that was used in connection to the 2008 trial. It is an entirely different video.” In this new video, R. Kelly is believed to repeatedly “refer to the victim’s age as 14” over 10 separate times.
“I expect R Kelly to also face federal charges in the coming weeks/months. These charges will be distinct from the crimes for which he was charged yesterday and will result in a separate criminal proceeding,” Avanetti wrote earlier today. “Ultimately, R Kelly will rightly spend his remaining days in prison.”
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Church group files complaint against Carnival Cruise Line for playing R. Kelly’s music
Article via YahooNews
Members of a Scotland-based church group clashed with a Carnival cruise ship DJ, who they claim ruined their trip when he refused to stop playing music by R. Kelly. Unsatisfied with the company’s response to the incident, the group has now filed an official complaint.
The Rev. Teri Peterson of The Church of Scotland told the Scotsman that she and several other clergywomen were aboard the Carnival Magic liner cruising through Miami when they heard Kelly’s music coming from the ship’s nightclub. Outraged, she and her friends approached the DJ and asked him to turn it off “because of everything surrounding the singer.”
Kelly has been the subject of sexual abuse allegations for many years. Surviving R. Kelly, a documentary released in January, shined a renewed spotlight on the performer’s alleged transgressions, prompting new calls for boycotts and criminal investigations.
When asked by the church group members to stop playing Kelly’s songs, the DJ “refused and then began singing and dancing along and mocking us,” Peterson said. Then when the women ran into the DJ in a different part of the cruise ship, she said, he made fun of them again.
The reverend was on the ship with more than 60 fellow members of RevGalBlogPals, an international online community for female clergy, ministers, and community leaders, for which Peterson is an office bearer. Peterson said that once she returned home, she spent five days emailing the company and even communicated her gripes in meetings with the cruise ship’s management.
In a statement shared with Yahoo Lifestyle, the church group said of the trip:
“We showed up for camaraderie, for rigorous study … and — as individuals who accompany countless others through celebrations and trauma alike while navigating the complexities that arise in our own lives — we showed up for respite. Unfortunately, for 9 of us who identify as Black women, our time aboard the Carnival Magic was colored by our experiences of taunting and discrimination at the hand of the ship’s employees.”
Then they described approaching the DJ, Bl4ck Zoe. “When we all gathered around the DJ Bl4ck Zoe’s booth to request that he change the music, he laughed at us all, shrugged his shoulders, began singing and dancing, and refused to honor our request.”
The cruise ship staff offered her a $100 onboard credit, she said, but no apology. Management also sent a letter to the church leaders, which they shared with Yahoo Lifestyle. It read:
“We had a small group of guests who took issue with two songs that our DJ was playing in a nightclub well after midnight. While we only play radio versions of popular music that have been sanitized so that offensive language has been removed, we do not make a habit of banning music as we have a broad cross section of guests. Our shipboard team listened to the concerns of these guests and provided a goodwill gesture. We are proud of the many ways we’ve been recognized for our commitment to diversity and inclusion and every day we work to make sure our guests and crew feel welcome and part of the Carnival family. We’re sorry this group feels otherwise.”
A spokesperson for Carnival added, “Our employees come from more than 150 countries around the world, so diversity is a hallmark across all our cruise brands.”
For Peterson and her fellow clergywomen, this is not enough.
“The response from Carnival makes me really angry,” she told the Scotsman.
A spokesperson for Carnival explained the company’s stance in a statement to the newspaper.
“We had a small group of guests who took issue with two songs that our DJ was playing in a nightclub well after midnight,” the spokesperson said. “While we only play radio versions of popular music that have been sanitized so that offensive language has been removed, we do not make a habit of banning music as we have a broad cross-section of guests. Our shipboard team listened to the concerns of these guests and provided a goodwill gesture. We are proud of the many ways we’ve been recognized for our commitment to diversity and inclusion, and every day we work to make sure our guests and crew feel welcome and part of the Carnival family. We’re sorry this group feels otherwise.”
But Peterson is still holding out for a resolution. “They had so many chances to do better and do the right thing, but they made it worse,” she said. “We want Carnival to first of all apologize for a significant customer service failure and to make sure that there are better choices in their music and entertainment lineup. Also to update their training so that this doesn’t happen to anyone else.”
She also said in the group’s statement that the clergywomen requested that Bl4ck Zoe be “removed from his duties.”
Yahoo Lifestyle has reached out to Carnival Cruise Line for comment.
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R. Kelly to visit Ghana
Article via GhanaWeb
Information available to BEATWAVES indicates that American superstar Robert Sylvester Kelly, known on the international music scene as R. Kelly, will host a major musical concert Ghana this year.
The American singer, songwriter and record producer will headline and share the stage together with some selected Ghanaian home-grown performing artistes.
The American singer is among many celebrities from the diaspora who will be coming to Ghana for the ‘Year of Return’ celebration this year to connect with their ancestry.
‘The Year of Return’ marks 400 years since some Black Africans and Ghanaians, for that matter, were shipped as slaves to foreign lands.
Kelly’s presence and live performance in Ghana will definitely rock the entire Ghanaian music scene.
The organisers have confirmed that they have “signed and sealed” a deal to have the R. Kelly perform in Ghana this year.
According to them, they will soon hold press launch of the concert to announce the full list of both local and international artistes who will be performing alongside R. Kelly at the concert, as well the venue and date.
Kelly is known for several hit songs including ‘Bump N’ Grind’, ‘Your Body’s Callin’, ‘I Believe I Can Fly’, ‘Gotham City’, ‘Ignition (Remix)’, ‘If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time’, ‘The World’s Greatest’, ‘I’m a Flirt’ (Remix), among others.
In 1996, he was nominated for a Grammy for writing Michael Jackson’s song ‘You Are Not Alone’.
In 2002 and 2004, Kelly released collaboration albums with rapper Jay-Z and has been a guest vocalist for other hip-hop artistes like Nas, Sean Combs and Notorious B.I.G.
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Sparkle Slams Erykah Badu, Taraji P. Henson For The R. Kelly Comments
Erykah Badu and Taraji P. Henson were way out of line with their initial public reactions to the R. Kelly scandal … so says one of the first celebs to speak out on R. Kelly’s alleged abuse.
Sparkle, who collabed with R. Kelly on her 1998 hit song, “Be Careful,” has major issues with the way Erykah and Taraji initially seemed to come to R. Kelly’s defense … because Sparkle says weak responses like theirs prevent other victims from coming forward.
Sparkle, who is featured in “Surviving R. Kelly,” says the black community needs to show R. Kelly some tough love … NOT the unconditional love Erykah offered.
As for Taraji comparing the number of people using the #MuteRKelly hashtag with the number of people using similar hashtags for Harvey Weinstein …Sparkle says the comparison is stupid because abusers are abusers. Period.
Watch … Sparkle explains why Erykah and Taraji’s commentaries were disheartening, and why she’s okay with taking down her song with R. Kelly.
Watch Sparkel’s video via TMZ
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Former Epic Records Intern Says R. Kelly Sexually Abused Her When She Was 16
In the wake of Lifetime’s bombshell R. Kelly documentary, another accuser is speaking out for the first time, claiming he also sexually abused her when she was a teenager. Tracy Sampson tells Dateline that Kelly allegedly abused her beginning in the summer of 1999 when she was 16 and working as an intern at Epic Records. She claims he forcibly kissed her then initiated a sexual relationship with her all while she was underage. Sampson told Dateline that Kelly asked her, “‘Can I kiss you?’ and I was like, ‘No,’” to which he responded, “‘Well, give me a hug.’ And then, like, when I gave him a hug he just started kissing me.” She continued, “I was in love with him. I just didn’t know what to do. Like, I didn’t know if this was normal. I didn’t know if this is how adults acted.”
Sampson says she ended the relationship after she turned 18 and then sued Kelly in 2001 for sexual abuse, including forcing her to receive oral sex from another woman. Kelly denied the allegations but settled with Sampson out of court for $250,000. Kelly has been accused by multiple women of sexual abuse throughout his 25-year career, many of whom told their stories in Surviving R. Kelly,and in 2017 was accused of holding women against their will as part of an alleged “sex cult.” Kelly’s lawyer tells Dateline now that all of Kelly’s accusers are lying, “every one of them.”
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Nas Says JAY-Z Was Aware of R. Kelly’s Pedophilia in Unearthed 2002 Interview
Things are getting more and more interesting a week following the premiere of the Surviving R. Kelly docuseries. Many people who have collaborated with the disgraced singer in the past have joined the #MuteRKelly movement, meanwhile, others assured that they been hopped on the wave decades ago when his pedophilia was made public knowledge.
JAY-Z was one of the people who opted to not participate in the documentary for whatever reason. According to an unearthed 2002 interview with Wendy Williams and Nas, Hov seen a “14-year-old girl come in the studio sit on R. Kelly’s lap” during the production of the Best of Both Worlds. Wendy agreed to say that anyone who has worked with him witnessed disgusting acts of sexual misconduct.
Dame Dash recently made headlines for claiming he was allegedly against his former artist collaborating with R. Kelly because of the nature of the relationship between his late fiance, Aaliyah, and Kells.
“I remember having the conversation with Aaliyah. And I was like ‘Yo, tell me what happened.’ And she was like ‘uh.’ She just couldn’t,” Dame said. “What you think I felt? I’m human, bro. I had to look the other way. All these years. Publicly, that man did a record with that n*gga that raped my girl, that he liked as well. But no one said nothing.”
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