R. Kelly has been convicted of a wide sundry of crimes against Black girls and women — but the disgraced R&B singer somehow thinks that JAY-Z, of all people, once wanted him dead.
Ronnie Bo, Kelly’s former cellmate, spoke to Hip Hop News Uncensored about the allegation on Friday (June 9). According to Bo, Kelly had no hard proof about the allegation, but he insisted to his cellmate that his former collaborator put a price on his head.
The pair famously joined forces in the early-mid ’00s for two albums — 2002’s The Best of Both Worlds and the 2004 follow-up Unfinished Business — and an ill-fated co-headlining tour.
Just weeks into the trek, things fell apart at New York City’s Madison Square Garden when R. Kelly left the stage over claims that men were pointing guns at him. On his way back to the stage, he was pepper-sprayed by Jigga’s close friend Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith
The “Ignition” singer was later dropped from the tour and filed a $75 million lawsuit against his tour mate for breach of contract, effectively ending their already-strained relationship.
“He felt like JAY-Z was kind of secure because, at the time, R. Kelly was technically bigger than him,” Bo said. “He felt like [during] one of the shows when they was in Madison Square Garden [in 2004] prior to that event, he said days before the event that he was getting death threats that he felt was coming from JAY-Z.”
He continued: “Like JAY-Z was trying to basically, I don’t know if this is going to sound outrageous, but he felt like JAY-Z was trying to get him killed for whatever reason.”
While Hov is happily enjoying his wife Beyoncé and daughter Blue Ivy dancing their hearts out onstage, R. Kelly’s legal woes have crossed over into the financial sector — and his record labels are about to be out a whole lot of money.
Court documents obtained by HipHopDX revealed that prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, filed a writ of continuing garnishment earlier this month, which is what’s filed by creditors (in this case, the government, acting on behalf of R. Kelly’s victims) against debtors (R. Kelly’s record labels) to collect money owed in a judgment.
“The outstanding balance on the aforesaid judgment is $504,289.73, including interest, as of June 1, 2023. Interest is continuing to accrue,” read the documents filed against Sony Music Entertainment.
The courts filed the writ of continuing garnishment against the disgraced R&B singer’s label because it is “in possession of property” belonging to the disgraced singer that can be used to pay down the debt, if not eliminate it altogether.
Back in March, Illinois Supreme Court ruled Heather Williams, one of Kelly’s sexual abuse victims, was entitled to access the disgraced singer’s label fund — which was reportedly valued at $1.5 million in 2020 — before Midwest Commercial Funding, a property manager that won its own separate $3.5 million ruling against Kelly over unpaid rent on a Chicago studio.
In 2020, Williams won a $4million judgement against Kelly after filing a civil lawsuit against him a year prior. She alleged that when she was 16, the “Ignition” hitmaker lured her to his studio on a promise she could be in a music video and then had sex with her multiple times as a minor.
It is not clear, however, whether R. Kelly’s royalty fund is still worth more than $1.5 million as of this writing.
This R-Kelly food is disgesting slowly..
Lol, Kells was fucking up the money…
jay z might have wanted him dead amongst others rap will take your life who wanted aliyah dead anyone you know nyc ain’t no fucking walk in the park heffas out there plotting all kinds shit your watch your chain your money the noterity your life maybe jay z just didn’t like him fucking with teenagers what does he know
Maybe you’re not a Chatgpt bot, as the shit you just typed is super incoherent. Stay in school, dude. Geez…
Don’t believe everything that’s said only half is true .3 sides 2 the story
Only half is true because there’s three sides to a story? That means only a third of this story is true…
This shit might have been disastrous but that first album was dope.
Yo, it was a guilty pleasure. It had some cool songs. Good summer album.
Jay would never give order unless someone did something to his family. Here is what happens instead; he has these shady people close by, and when he’s cool with you and making money with you people know not yo mess with you. When he’s mad at you, he lets the people he doesn’t care what happens to you, essentially green lighting whatever the criminals around him want to do.
Or maybe everybody involved should’ve went to jail too. Like if you going to lock him up then lock them up for being at his concerts. Better yet where we’re the parents? Why didn’t they know where their children were? Why did they feel ok with letting them go? Why did they feel comfortable asking for money for their children? Like I have so many unanswered questions…just to name a few.
The real question is does him paying you all this money now that you’re of whatever age make you feel better? Does the money give you peace at what happened? and I feel if you do the crime you should be punished when it happens not 50 yrs later. I still stand on if you’re going to lock him up then lock everyone involved up. Parents and all.
I in no way see money fixing, healing, or even just to set myself up comfortably making me feel better, healing my trauma, taking away the nightmares, or even have me not worried it could happen to my kids. I would be so afraid to leave them alone with anyone, but nobody sees it that way not even the judge or jury that I’m sure have children of their own as well. If they did then there’s no way they would let them take all this money, let the parents that basically sold their children to get ahead walk freely, and so much more. …MONEY DONT TAKE AWAY THE HURT, BITTERNESS, ANGER, NIGHTMARES, and ETC…
Girl you are right on point cuz the nightmares are going to continue and every time he she hear his music she going to flip money doesn’t solve everyone’s problems
You are absolutely right. The mothers sold their daughters to him…he stopped paying them so now they wanna scream kidnap, how can the judge and prosecutors not see that
Exactly, why weren’t the parents and/ guardians jailed also? Why weren’t R. Kelly’s “Yes” people who knew about these incidents for years not jailed?!
All of these parents and entities should be held accountable!