Chance The Rapper has pulled his R. Kelly collaboration “Somewhere In Paradise” from streaming services in the aftermath of Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly docu-series. The 2015 track is no longer on available outlets such as Apple Music and Spotify but remains on YouTube and SoundCloud as of Tuesday afternoon (January 15).
The removal of “Somewhere In Paradise” adds Chance to a growing list of artists who are scrubbing their Kelly collaborations from streaming services. Last week, Lady Gaga vowed to remove her “Do What U Want (With My Body)” duet with Kelly from digital platforms. Celine Dion followed suit and directed her team to remove 1998’s “I’m Your Angel” collab with Kelly from streaming services.
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Chance has said “making a song with R. Kelly was a mistake.” Despite his regret, the Grammy Award winner faced scrutiny for saying he “didn’t value the accusers’ stories because they were black women” in an interview clip included in the Surviving R. Kelly docu-series.
After it aired, Chance said his remarks were taken out of context. He also posted a portion of the original interview with writer Jamilah Lemieux.
“The quote was taken out of context, but the truth is any of us who ever ignored R Kelly stories, or ever believe he was being setup/attacked by the system (as black men often are) were doing so at the detriment of back women and girls,” he wrote on Twitter. “I apologize to all of his survivors for working with him and for taking this long to speak out.”
Chance’s unedited comments about working with Kelly can be read below.
“Making a song with R. Kelly was a mistake,” he told Lemieux. “At the time, it wasn’t even present in my mind that people could feel any type of way about his presence on a track of mine. I think for a long time I was only able to understand R. Kelly’s situation and presence in the world when it comes down to his trial and his accusations and his accusers as a victim. I don’t know if that’s because I’m from Chicago or ‘cause he made great music or ‘cause he is a black man.
“We’re programmed to really be hypersensitive to black male oppression. But black women are exponentially [a] higher oppressed and violated group of people just in comparison to the whole world. Maybe I didn’t care because I didn’t value the accusers’ stories because they were black women. Usually, niggas that get in trouble for shit like this on their magnitude of celebrity, it’s light-skinned women or white women. That’s when it’s a big story. I’ve never really seen any pictures of R. Kelly’s accusers.”
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Chance the pc pony at it again. If twitter told ppl they need 2 be ashamed for being black hed be the first to hit the whitening cream
I don’t like Chance, but it was a good move.
But he is keeping the money he made off it FOH
Chance is the biggest virtue signaler in the hip-hop industry lol. He does everything for the likes, and always intends to been seen when he does anything he does. I love acid rap, but his other stuff is terrible to me.
He’s doing it so he can be seen doing it. Virtue signaling. If there was no social media, chance wouldn’t do anything. Why even announce it? Because he wants people to pat him on the back. Chance commonly does this kind of thing. Everyone knew the kind of guy R Kelley was over a decade ago, and at the very minimum Chance knew Kelley was pissing on underrated teens, but that didn’t bother him? It’s called fake outrage.
When did he announce he removed the song?
I didn’t intend to imply that he announced he removed the song. I meant that he announced an apology for working with R Kelley, acting as if we didn’t all know R Kelley was doing illegal things with teenage girls over a decade ago
Why is every good deed ever done virtue signaling you pathetic troll?
“Person X donates to a charity”
“Ehrmagawd virtue signaling”
How about people want do make up for past mistakes made?
I didn’t say everything good people do is virtue signaling. But chance the rapper DOES virtue signal, constantly. You can’t pretend that people weren’t aware of the kind of man R Kelley was. Us, in the pubic, have known for well over a decade that R Kelley at the very minimum, pulls out his dick, and pisses on underrated teen girls. I’m just going to go out on a limb and assume that if a man is willing to pull out his dick on camera, and piss on a underrage teen, then he’s willing to have sex or do other things.
So, chance acting as if what has come to light recently somehow changes everything is stupid. Everyone always knew the kind of person R Kelly was, and is. Chance the rapper knew. Chance commonly follows the crowd, and what’s popular. Chance is all about getting approval from his peers on social media.
Cause he didn’t know of the rumors in 2015? What a hero this overrated clown is.
The process to get an artist featured on a song…takes time and goes through different levels before finally being released…1. It wasn’t a mistake….First you didn’t care….now you carry..your statement was taken out of context….trying to score political points….2. Ensuring that you don’t hurt your brand…If social media wasn’t here you wouldn’t have done it….you don’t fool me
Remember innocent until proven guilty.
Imagine if every rapper who ever worked with Kells were suddenly boycotted. You wouldn’t be able to listen to anything that came out in the mainstream hip hop circuit between 1990 and 2008. No more Jay, Nas, 50, Snoop, Beanie, Cassidy, Birdman, Game, Diddy, Fat Joe, Twista, Ja Rule, Jeezy, Usher, Rick Ross, or Biggie (that’s just what I can think of off top). My point being, Chance would have to be insane to think he would be held to that level of scrutiny that his career could be affected in any way by the association of a one off collabo. I think he did this out of principle, even if he did kinda virtue signal by posting about it.
This site doesn’t work. That long response was intended to reply to J, who asked why I call out Chance the rapper for virtue signaling.
I hope he removes all his stuff, since it’s all terrible. Heard Acid Rap too, not a good project.
It would be better to keep them on streaming sites and donate the royalties to abuse charities
That’s actually a good idea. Respect
Oh look Chance is signaling what a good guy he is, what a surprise!
Remember when Chance was hitting them streets hard for his master Hillary? Lol he had his crowd from his concert follow him to a voting location. What a tool. Everyone knows Chance only got his start because his family knows Obama.