Kelly’s history that have been swept under the rug for far too long. There are also a great deal of facts about the history of the case, the charges, and R. And the light he sheds on our society and the safety of women, especially of young black women, is alarming. And understandably, there has been an outcry since the Pitchfork festival and the new album - people asking if listeners of his music have forgotten his sins.
Kelly’s young victims and their families would find anything the man does remotely bearable, let alone entertaining. I sincerely doubt, though, that any of R. I’m sure there’s a Trapped in the Closet drinking game out there. You can see his lyrics jokingly re-purposed as “inspirational” quotes or chuckle to Benedict Cumberbatch reading his lyrics in his posh accent. And yet, much of Kelly’s recent body of work has been praised by critics or oddly propagated by young white people.
Kelly is a strange phenomenon in our current culture - news of Chris Brown does not break without some reference to his history of violence towards women, nor should it. The 15-year-old case has been getting fresh attention as of late because of a string of complaints against Pitchfork, who had Kelly as their headliner for the Pitchfork Music Festival, and the recent release of the aggressively and grotesquely sexual album, Black Panties. DeRogatis, now a Professor at Columbia College, recently sat down with Jessica Hopper at The Village Voice and revealed some deeply upsetting facts about the case, the aftermath, the responsibility of the industry, and how the public has allowed R. The whole thing happened when The Chicago Sun-Times wasn’t yet available on an iPad and everything in the world wasn’t on Google, so the story faded off into the distance. It was a "controversy" and he was acquitted.
“I remember the girl was 14 and he peed on her,” or “he married Aaliyah when she was underaged,” seems to be as far as most can recall.
Most of us were just about the age, or younger, of Kelly’s victims when these criminal acts were taken to court. Kelly’s infamous sex tapes and pedophilia charges were released, and the case was broken open by Jim DeRogatis at the Chicago Sun-Times.
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