Came across this rather mind blowing expose on R. Kelly by the Village Voice. They interview the Chicago Sun-Times writer who broke the story of the sex tape. What you probably don't know is that wasn't the only tape nor was it the only accusation. Doing what good journalists do, the writer interviewed, got names, confirmed details and learned the harrowing account of how R. Kelly preyed upon these young, impressional black girls who would be scarred for life as a result of Robert's heinous actions. I'm on my mobile so I can't copy/paste/format as usual, but please read the article. It's really sad how the media as a whole has ignored Kelly's pattern of behavior, as well as the many settlements he's made over the years with the families of the girls he preyed upon.

Full article (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/...the_stomac.php) with excepts below.

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Read the "Stomach-Churning" Sexual Assault Accusations Against R. Kelly in Full

It's been nearly 15 years since music journalist Jim DeRogatis caught the story that has since defined his career, one that he wishes didn't exist: R. Kelly's sexual predation on teenage girls. DeRogatis, at that time the pop-music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, was anonymously delivered the first of two videos he would receive depicting the pop star engaging in sexual acts with underage girls. Now the host of the syndicated public radio show Sound Opinions and a professor at Columbia College, DeRogatis, along with his former Sun-Times colleague Abdon Pallasch, didn't just break the story, they did the only significant reporting on the accusations against Kelly, interviewing hundreds of people over the years, including dozens of young women whose lives DeRogatis says were ruined by the singer.

In this interview (which has been condensed significantly), DeRogatis speaks frankly and explicitly about the many disturbing charges against Kelly and says, ultimately, "The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody."

"Part of our reporting was sitting with those girls, sitting with their families, seeing their scars on their wrists, hearing the emotion."

Some of our young critical peers, they are 24 and all they know of Kelly's past is some vague sense of scandal because they were introduced to him as kids via Space Jam. A lot of your reporting on this is not online, it is not Google-able. Collective memory is he "just" peed in a girls mouth.

To be fair, I teach twenty year olds at Columbia. Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of. Nobody knows everything. A lot of art, great art, is made by despicable people. James Brown beat his wife. People are always, "Why aren't you upset about Led Zeppelin?" I got the Bonham three rings [tattooed] on my foot. Led Zeppelin did disgusting things. I read Hammer of the Gods, I'm disgusted by the group sex with the shark. [Note: it was actually a red snapper! Still gross.] I have a couple of responses to that: I didn't cover Led Zeppelin. If I was on the plane, like Cameron Crowe was, I would have written about those things if I saw them. The art very rarely talks about these things. There are not pro-rape Led Zeppelin songs. There are not pro-wife beating James Brown songs. I think in the history of rock 'n' roll, rock music or pop culture people misbehaving and behaving badly sexually with young women, rare is the amount of evidence compiled against anyone apart from R. Kelly. Dozens of girls--not one, not two, dozens--with harrowing lawsuits. The videotapes--and not just one videotape, numerous videotapes. And not Tommy Lee/Pam Anderson, Kardashian fun video. You watch the video for which he was indicted and there is the disembodied look of the rape victim. He orders her to call him Daddy. He urinates in her mouth and instructs her at great length on how to position herself to receive his "gift". It's a rape that you're watching. So we're not talking about rock star misbehavior, which men or women can do. We're talking about predatory behavior. Their lives were ruined. Read the lawsuits!

And there was young woman that was pressured into an abortion?

--That he paid for. There was a young woman that he picked up on the evening on her prom. The relationship lasted a year and a half or two years. Impregnated her, paid for her abortion, had his goons drive her. None of which she wanted. She sued him. The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody. They have any complaint about the way they are treated: they are "bitches, hos and gold diggers," plain and simple. Kelly never misbehaved with a single white girl who sued him or that we know of. Mark Anthony Neal, the African American scholar, makes this point : one white girl in Winnetka and the story would have been different. No, it was young black girls and all of them settled. They settled because they felt they could get no justice whatsoever. They didn't have a chance.

And they learned that after putting these suits forth and having them get nowhere? Do you think they didn't get traction because of the representation they had or Kelly's power? Were certain elements in concert with that?

I think it was a lot of things, including the fact that Kelly was fully capable of intimidating people. These girls feared for their lives. They feared for the safety of their family. And these people talked to me not because I'm super reporter--we rang a lot of door bells on the south and west sides, and people were eager to talk about this guy because they wanted him to stop!

Read the article in full, there's brand new information: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/...the_stomac.php

"Do What I Want, Do What I Want With Your Body"

:creep:

Mmmmm...?

I see there is another thread on this. I'm sorry for the duplication. I was formatting this in notepad when TVX posted hers. Sorry mods.

AP and Not Guilty!

I've always disliked him, and felt that the accusations are true. It's only a matter of time before the media catches on.

His wiki page is kinda funny

2002: sex tape allegations ending in acquittal
On February 3, 2002, an affair began for which Kelly would eventually receive a full acquittal. On that day, a video surfaced allegedly showing Kelly engaging in sex with, and urinating on, an underage girl. The story, which was released by an unknown source, was sent to the Chicago Sun-Times, the newspaper that broke the story on February 8, 2002.[102] This news surfaced as Kelly was to perform at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. In interviews with WMAQ television of Chicago and MTV News, Kelly said that he was not the man in the video.[103][104] In June 2002, Kelly was indicted in Chicago on 21 counts of having sex with a minor, which were later reduced to soliciting a minor for child ****ography, seven counts of videotaping the acts, and seven counts of producing child ****ography.[105] That same month, authorities searched Kelly's house in Davenport, Florida. During the search officers also obtained pictures of an allegedly underage woman on a digital camera – wrapped in a towel in a duffel bag.[106] Kelly was arrested in January 2003 on those charges. In March 2004, these charges were dropped due to a lack of probable cause for the search warrants.[107]
After a number of delays, on October 27, 2006, a Cook County, Illinois court hearing for pre-trial motions set the date of the actual trial to February 7, 2007.[108] On the date of the trial, Kelly's lawyer informed the court that his client was unable to attend because he was "undergoing surgery for a burst appendix". He also announced that Kelly was "in good condition and was expected to be released from the hospital later in the day." Kelly's attorney stated that Kelly (who pleaded not guilty) would be in attendance on the next trial date of February 21, 2007.[109] It had previously been announced by the court that the videotape that allegedly showed Kelly performing sex acts with an underage woman would be publicly shown as evidence in the trial. The trial, however, was delayed due to disputes over when the tape was made and to give medical recuperation time to the sitting judge following a fall resulting in broken bones. Later the case was set for a September 17 date.[110] It took more than six months for the case to go to trial. Jury selection began on May 9, 2008, and the trial officially started on May 20 with opening statements from the prosecution and defense. After two weeks, the prosecution's case wrapped on June 3 while the defense's wrapped six days later, on June 9. After less than a day of deliberations, on June 13, 2008, a Chicago jury found Kelly not guilty of all 14 counts.

Would these allegations be further detailed if it wasn't for his feature in Gaga's single?

Gaga her impact.

Who cares DWYW is still a BOP