Philadelphia-bred singer Jaguar Wright made some disturbing allegations against The Roots, Common, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and other members of the Okayplayer collective in the wake of Malik B’s death last week. But evidently, she isn’t done.
On Tuesday (August 4), another one of Wright’s Instagram videos started making the rounds on Twitter. This time, the tenured neo-soul artist unpacked The Roots’ former connection to embattled R&B singer R. Kelly who’s currently behind the bars of a Chicago jail for numerous sex crimes.
In the clip, Wright says she was once told to keep her mouth shut after Kelly’s apparent affinity for underage girls made its way to a studio one night.
“You know how fuckin’ responsible I feel for all the woman I let you hurt because I didn’t say nothing,” she said in part. “I know how grimy these niggas is. I know how thirsty they are and I know nobody’s going to say nothing or do nothing, ’cause as long as you making people money, you can whatever the fuck you want. Look at R. Kelly. The Roots was around when that nigga was in the A Room sending his muthafuckin’ driver off to go get girls from … what was that middle school? I know they picked up girls from Martin Luther King, they picked up girls from Gratz and they picked up girls from VAC, from the bad girls school up Allegheny.
“They brought ’em to the studio. They brought ’em to Larry Gold Studio. Everybody knew what the fuck was going on in that room, but I was told to mind my muthafuckin’ business if I wanted to keep my career. A member of The Roots told me, ‘That ain’t none of your business. That man makes people millionaires.’ You fuckin’ thirsty bitches.”
Meanwhile, Roots affiliate Dice Raw addressed Wright’s recent diatribes, in particular the notion Black Thought didn’t write all of his raps, and dismissed them as part of her “mental illness.”
After a Twitter user referred to Wright as “that bitch” and demanded she apologize to Thought for lying, Dice replied, “Right but here’s the thing she’s our sister you never heard Black Thought say the word bitch on record or anyone for that matter on a Roots album we not going call her out her name. We going pray for her to come out of this healed. Mental illness is real.”
But Wright stands by her accounts. In another Instagram post, the 43-year-old chanteuse challenged producer Young Guru, who defended ghostwriting allegations fired in Thought’s direction.
“I love it when people think they know what they’re talking about; yet were not present for any of what they’re speaking on,” she wrote alongside a screenshot of a HipHopDX article. “Right now, there’s a divide. There are people who know the truth, people trolling for favor and fame, and those being paid to spread false propaganda to derail my main purpose. See, small minds need to believe what they’re told. It’s easy! No thought involved.
“But, in order to truly be a free thinker you have to believe in yourself first! I don’t need validation for the truth. I don’t need to prove facts. 2+2=4 there’s no argument! It’s not my fault you don’t want to believe the truth. Lies are easily found out. I want nothing more than the truth to be acknowledged and respected! Anyone who knew #malikb would never have to question a thing!”
Wright also issued a call-to-action to Thought, adding, “Tariq [Trotter] knows the truth. I dare him to tell it! @yunggurusbmg get at me! I’ll tell you all the truth your young ears can handle! Hope you’re not doing this for a spot on the Fallon show tho! Those niggas rarely keep their word. I would know!”
Malik’s untimely death proved to be the catalyst for Wright to speak out. As she noted in an Instagram video from July 31, she’s been holding on to these “lies” for 20 years and felt it was time to finally purge them.
Jaguar Wright Accuses Common Of Past Sexual Assault In Wake Of Malik B's Death
Perhaps one of the most shocking revelations was the allegation Common once tried to sexually assault her. But so far, neither Common or any members of The Roots have acknowledged Wright’s claims.
Wait, wait… So you mean to tell me you were present with The Roots when R Kelly brought young girls through? Correct. And you say The Roots told you to keep your mouth shut if you wanted to keep your career? Correct. Hmmmmmmmm…. Keep my career, or rat out a pedophile? I’m gonna choose the latter, doc. Sorry Ms. Wright but you keeping your mouth shut makes you complicit as well. Congrats. Your silence helped keep a pedo off the leash for a couple more decades. I already questioned certain (but not all) claims you made, but remained fairly neutral. But this? This is not cool.
R Kelly has never been found guilty of any crime. Pleas stop with all these false accusations.
She ain’t say nothing because she ain’t see nothing!! She is doing like the rest of those lying hoes and using R Kelly’s name to get some attention. Pay her and the rest of the attention seekers no mind. They’ll go away.
Pray for Jaguar to get her mental right. Pray for both her and Kanye. It isn’t their fault, they are going through some real life ish.
Jaguar Wright why now? Why didn’t you say something when you saw it happening or heard that it was happening. SMH
Bro ain’t no body gonna order your shit. This ain’t the place
This is the question someone should ask her. She didn’t say shit then because she was thinking she was going to be in the in crowd and didn’t want to fuck that up. But now she’s being “real” now that no chance of that is going to happen. GFOH.
Because she is doing like everybody else and using R Kelly’s name to get some attention. She need to be checked into Bellview.
Jaguar wright has mental issues. But it’s not a surprise the music industry is fall of evil stuff happening. Even these concious rappers have dirt
Everybody has dirt, and your point.
Black women are the worst.
Shut up bitch
Ah, here’s a lovely lady now. Don’t be so aggressive. It’ll make people even less attracted to you!
Who hurt you???
You did because you ate up all the cake fat hoe
Monique, all due respect, your pussy must be a nightmare
R Kelly is a serial rapist and he has to be held accountable for his crimes. It proves money can’t buy you everything
STHU, he’s not convicted of a damn thing. Nothing but allegations. You hear a lie enough times you start to believe that stupid ass shit.
all the r kelly apologists need to be locked up wit’em ! ’cause if you feel these are only allegations at this point you must be on his pay role or i think r kelly has gotten away with this so long ’cause of enablers and him misusing his power. i like ‘step in the name of love’ anyone else but my conscience won’t allow me to forget all the young black girls he abused including the late aaliyah ! he needs to spent some time behind that steel and then should be required to undergo psychiatric treatment for at least 5 years before being considered for release back into society. to me what r kelly was doing is just as bad as sex trafficking.
R Kelly has never been found guilty of any crime so please stop with your false accusations.
the whole industry knew act r kelly for years
Just like she did and everybody else in the industry, especially the white people who controlled the record companies and all of your money. Her point is?
She’s just as complicit as all the men she’s trying to discredit if she can recite all their crimes with such detail. I don’t recall her campaign to put any of these men in jail until it became the popular thing to do. These bottom feeders love to attach themselves to movements with momentum because their baseless claims had no legs to run on.
Fk just your opinions plural everybody’s not just the idiot below me. Plain and simple jaguar wright is stating facts. And the communities response is to her is gas lighting her citing she has mental illness and discrediting her in every way possible. Tell me how you fkng opinion even weighs in on this matter? Stfu you stupid little kids fk your opinions especially just your opinions. Fkng dumb millenials.
One day kid you’ll learn not to take things on face value. Until then. Got get your shine box!!
How do you know she’s spitting facts? Were you there?
Why do you assume these comments are from millenials? Highly doubt any millenials truly give af bout this topic..
Why do black artists try to bring themselves down and attempt to ruin everything they have made by attacking eachother. So stupid! Look what your doing to your own peers! Makes no sense!
Who knows the truth.. Like they tried to sla der Guru after his deathwuth the gay mess who knows let Allah deal with it
Allaharm leg leg arm head…. really. You are not God and the demon you worship bows to my FATHER
We are our own worst enemies black people!!!! We are constantly trying to assassinate each other’s character!!!! It’s unreal to me!!!! Where were the parents when R Kelly was doing this?
Ful all that You parents did not follow you around every fukking moment of your life. And I know you ain’t told mom & dad every damn thing that you have done , nor seen or said. Gtfoh
Learn to spell
So now you come out, you chose your career over protecting those vulnerable! Why make statements now? The demons keeping you from sleeping? All of you people who knew this man was sick did nothing to aid the girls or him and now everyone has a story to tell! You all make me sick but hey whom am I to judge! If you did not feel the aid to help then stop talking now!
Damn we divide ourselves any chance we get.
If she knew that the Roots knew, then she knew it too…she was concerned about her career and monetary gains just like the people she dissed, so shes just as guilty….if all this is true, of course…
You didn’t read it all .it stated that one of the ROOTS member told her that it wasn’t her business..go back and read please..
yeah i read it all…when i said “shes just as bad as the ppl she dissed” i was referring to that roots member…also since people were saying dont mess with R he could make us millionaires….so she obviously was worried about her career n money too
someone should tell r. kelly to do this kind of thing legally and ask for i.d.. is it 18 in the u.s.? georgia?
If they 18 then i
ts not his type
Her fucking name is jaguar?
What career did she have??
Who is this woman??
What in the fuck do The Roots have to do with R Kelly??? They’ve never done music with him. They’re not from the same city or anything. They’ve never even been on that vibe. I don’t understand the connection at all. This really seems like a reach. I think the source should definitely be considered on this one. But that’s just my opinion.
I’m a little confused when the hell did the roots and r.kelly ever link up to do music together? Why would you admit to helping a child predator find and abuse children because if you knew what the roots were doing with r.kelly then you had a front-row seat? I don’t know if this is a mental illness thing or this is just bad blood that’s just running its course to the extreme because this shit looks like a stretch in imagination.
First of all, the way the business works is that groups and artists often cross paths while recording, touring, and/or promoting shit….so just because there are no official collabs don’t mean the Roots and R. never crossed paths……but they had nothing to do with what he was doing. Plus, I’m sure Wright was told to mind her business for her own safety, not to condone what he was doing…. definitely not to condone what he was doing.Sound like she’s having an episode tho.
They all knew and didnt do shit. They pussy. They scared. Worried about retaliation. Worried about being blackballed. They all seen him with little kids and they was ok with it. If you see evil and do nothing, you are evil too. Any grown man that didnt break r kellys jaw after seeing him with a child is either a fucking coward or a pedo.
Just like the police… when all the good ones see a dirty cop wreaking havoc and never say anything…..that makes the good cops just as bad.
Of course shes telling the truth, every single person who worked with, toured, or was even close to the industry knew what r kell was about. All of them kept they mouths shut like cowards. Fuck all these tiny men and their scared little feelings.
I love you Ms. Wright. Please make more music, please! Also R. Kelly needs help he is a big creep, but he’s been performing what was done to him like most victims of abuse. People kill me trying to dismiss individuals with mental health perceived or clinically diagnosed. Leave that to the physician because it makes you sound ignorant. We’re here for my sister because I’ve been waiting for her to come back. Tell the truth shame the devils…now it’s time to write the pain, express it and make coin. xoxoxo
We are you waiting till now to say something?
Penises belong in mouths, what is her problem?
Not in kids mouths niggah
She knew what was going on and she chose to stay quiet just like the rest of them…you can’t blame other people for you not speaking up…foh!!!