Jermaine Dupri is coming to the defense of R. Kelly‘s legacy, despite it being tarnished in recent years due to his sex crime convictions.
During an Instagram Live on Tuesday (October 1), the legendary producer acknowledged that while the embattled singer has his issues, no one can top himon the music side of things.
“R. Kelly put the ‘R’ in R&B,” JD said. “We gotta stop playing around. I get it. I understand. I’m not here to talk about none of that bullshit he’s involved with. He is the R in R&B. Hands down.”
Later in his live, he shared his thoughts on the current state of the genre, noting that the lack of church experience among young people today is impacting the music and making less soulful records.
The disgraced R&B legend has petitioned the United States Supreme Court in July to throw out his convictions based on the fact that his alleged crimes occurred decades ago and the charges therefore fall outside the statute of limitations.
Because Kelly was convicted for incidents dating back to the mid 1990s, the singer’s team argued that the PROTECT Act, which he was charged with violating, doesn’t apply to his case since it didn’t become a law until 2003 — despite prosecutors successfully arguing that the law’s statue of limitations are indefinite.
Kelly’s attorney Jennifer Bonjean said that the Act’s expanded statute of limitations doesn’t apply to the charges against her client.
The Supreme Court will reportedly decide whether to hear the appeal in the coming months.
Back in 2022, a grand jury found R. Kelly guilty on six of the 13 federal charges he was facing, which included three child pornography charges for sexually abusing four girls — three of whom were minors.
They also found the Chicago native guilty of making videos of himself sexually assaulting his 14-year-old goddaughter, which resulted in another three charges for producing sex tapes with a minor.
Nobody ever said that he didn’t make legendary music.. but praising him at this point is not cool.
Yeah, the r@p3
Who gives a fuck and what is the point here? He made his music and some will listen (not me, it’s teenie bop girls R&B, not soulful), but him being celebrated or honored is not gonna happen, nor should it.
He’s THE R in R@PIST. Fuck that n!gga with an elephant dick.
Keep that same energy for the White musicians who have been known to sleep with underage Women. We gloss over them. We don’t mention what went on at the Playboy mansion, but we mention Diddy every hour on the hour. Smh, it’s 2024 and the white man is still skating free of criticism and charges.
@LeicaFanBoy White folks don’t give af about us, hurting each other. Why give af about them? We need to police our own damn communities. If we kept that same energy for EVERY community destroying deviant thug in our midst, we’d all be much better off.
Keep that same energy for the White musicians who have been known to sleep with underage Women. We gloss over them. We don’t mention what went on at the Playboy mansion, but we mention Diddy every hour on the hour. Smh, it’s 2024 and the white man is still skating free of criticism and charges.
Keep that same energy for your hero drake when he’s hitting on teenage girls.. give it a rest Ovo, drake is never gonna bang you
@LeicaFanBoy So you like black pedophiles but not white ones? Ped0s and rapist are all dirtbags, regardless of their skin tone.
Never even bought up drake yet your homophobic hating ass still shows up.
Your boy kendrick is the one thst likes minor young girls, not drake. Drake likes them legal
You don’t need to bring up drake.. we all know that you’re Ovo, the ultimate drake dickrider. If you hate white pedophiles so much, why are you such a Drake fan?
I agree. Free R. Kelly. These hoes be lying, they dont want to work a regular job like you and me.
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Kinda like how Jermaine puts the R in Retarded. Nobody gives a shit bout so so def, shit murder inc somehow made a bigger legacy.
“We gotta stop playing around…” The only folk playing around were R Kelly with little girls, and Dupri for defending this diabolical degenerate.
this shit is soul destroying for everyone involved…. Michael jackson with small boys that shit only stuck after he got loaded on propolhol then kicked the bucket it took corey feldman 30 years to admit he was sexually abused by charlie sheen ok so thats revisionist history but people even women shout the loudest but can be guilty in this respect