As Yo-Yo was walking into the Trumpet Awards at The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center in Atlanta on Saturday night (January 19), TMZ asked her about the controversy currently burying R. Kelly and his career.
The veteran rapper revealed she’d actually visited Kelly at a Los Angeles studio where she was listening to his new album. Yo-Yo brought her daughter along who later confessed one of Kelly’s crew members slipped Kelly’s number into her phone.
“I actually went to listen to his music and my daughter came with me,” she says in the clip. “The sad part was when we got home, my daughter said, ‘Mom, someone passed me R. Kelly’s number. I said, ‘What!?’ She’s like, ‘Mom, please don’t say nothing. This is why I didn’t tell you.’
“I didn’t say anything, but you know, it really let me know there is a real problem. It really let me know that there really is a problem because with all of that that was going on for that to still happen — and it happened to me. I was thinking I’m your friend. I come here with my daughter who’s over 21, but you don’t know my daughter’s age, and behind my back? You will slide my daughter your number? That’s just weird to me, like a weirdo. Who would do that?”
Yo-Yo admitted she didn’t realize how deep the issue was and didn’t initially have an opinion. But after the incident involving her child, she sympathizes with Kelly’s alleged victims..
The disgraced R&B star has been a heavy topic of conversation since Lifetime premiered the Surviving R. Kelly documentary earlier this month.
If I was in a room with a pedophile who abused girls as young as 14, I’d stab a icepick through his fucking temple
It would be beneficial to you to know the person you were stabbing was 100% found guilty in a court of law. Otherwise your dumbass just admitted you’re assault was premeditated & without warrant or just cause…dumb ass!!!
Chillout mr. pedogoy its eye 4 eye folks like you lot is on borrowed x..
go knock up a tranny..fuck your courts
She was over 21. This is a non story. More slander by the trash media.
shut the fuck up seriously, you goddamn clown.
Damn. What a tough internet G. I’m scared.
Jeez everyone jumping on the bandwagon to revive dead careers
Soooo, she been in the industry for forever and knows R. Kelly history! Yet and still, you brought your daughter with you when you went to see him? You got what you asked for! But she over 21, so she grown! Who cares!! That don’t make him a pedophile, she 21!!
Its simply yall. You cant try to holla at the homies daughter…
Fam that realest shit you just said!!! The homies daughter and main lady(can’t claim more than one). No explanation needed it’s that simple
Stop the Lies! Yo Yo never made it big in the RAP game but now wants a part of the Spotlight! Now she mentions that her daughter is a grown woman but no harm was done! Maybe Kelly’s team thought Yo-Yo’s daughter had a talent and made a mistake sending the phone number to the wrong person! What’s Yo-Yo’s complaint nothing happened?! I had this scenario happen to me with a talent agent! Maybe Yo yo wanted Kelly’s number to outshine her daughter but never got it! Besides Yo Yo angry that her daughter never made it to stardom and does not have a special talent for neither singing or rapping! Yo yo your rap game is over just sit your bald-headed A** down and let your daughter grow to be whatever she is meant to become because she is following in your footsteps of corny rap lyrics and a flopped career!
And who remembers u? Yo Yo has left behind her legacy in Hip Hop. 1st lady of Da Lench Mob…this girl kept Ice Cube in check back in the dayz…LEGENDARY.
stupid troll comment. YoYo is a goddess.
Who is Yo Yo? Her daughter is of age so even if this is true it’s fine. Before this, nobody spoke about this woman, in a few days, nobody will remember her. Just trying to catch the R.Kelly wave before her surprise album drops
I would’ve just slipped it to yo yo instead
Yo Yo please… You take your daughter with you and how many allegations RKelly had in front of him on National TV prior to these allegations!!! You guys have to be the dumbest parents ever! Must be broke!!! And another thing… Did RKelly do it or was it his man. Child please with this story!!!