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The Culture Report

An R&B King Has Fallen From Grace

It’s too late to say “how the mighty have fallen” in the case of R. Kelly. Maybe you could have said
that in 2000 when the Chicago Sun-Times published, “R. Kelly Accused of Sex with Teenage Girls.”
Back then he was being sued for having sex with a 15-year-old when he was 24. Horrible, but it wasn't
the last accusation.

Maybe his star would fall after the infamous sex tape where he urinated on an under aged girl. Nope.
The self-proclaimed pied piper of R&B kept
stepping in the name of love. His image, though,
was forever marred and though many refused to
believe it, others had to reconcile that the singer
of their favorite songs liked to have sex with little
girls.

The downward trend continued in 2017 when it
was revealed that Kelly kept a “cult.” A group of
underage girls who traveled with Kelly so he
could have sex with them. These girls were
abused not just sexually and emotionally, but just
plain ole physically, with one claiming that he
locked her in a van for nine hours.

The news of this weirdo Brady Bunch went viral
and sparked memes as well as more serious
condemnations. At that point, there was no
denying that he was a monster—no matter how
much you loved, “I believe I can fly.”

The Lifetime channel’s four-part series Surviving
R. Kelly is the latest revelation about the icon who’s polish was tarnished long ago. Speaking to those
close to him, his victims, and his enablers, the documentary paints the picture not of a silly singer who
likes to, as Dave Chapelle once put it, “piss on you,” but of a serial abuser and child rapist.

Celebrities and entertainers have began to step up and voice their displeasure with the disgraced singer,
the latest being comedian Kevin Hart. Hart stop by the Radio Andy show on SiriusXM and said he
spoke with his 13 & 11 year old children.

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