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Kelly is Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison","publishDate":1656536112,"format":"standard","headTitle":"R. Kelly is Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>The disgraced R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was sentenced in New York by federal Judge Ann Donnelly, who spoke at length before issuing the sentence. At one point, she quoted a victim impact statement from a woman known in court as Stephanie, who told Kelly, “No price was too high for someone else to pay for your happiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13903808']“This case is not about sex,” the judge said. “It is about violence, cruelty and control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly acknowledged points made by defense, including that Kelly endured a very difficult childhood, with sexual abuse at the hands of his sister and a landlord. However, she added, “You are a person who had great advantages—worldwide fame and celebrity, untold money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly declined to address the court himself. His lawyer cited pending cases: a second federal trial in Illinois, slated to begin Aug. 15, and separate criminal charges in Minnesota. The charges include child pornography and obstruction of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kelly’s conviction\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903808/r-kelly-found-guilty-of-racketeering-and-sex-trafficking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last year, Kelly was found guilty\u003c/a> of charges including sexual exploitation of a child, racketeering, bribery and sex trafficking. The jury found the government proved Kelly was at the head of a criminal conspiracy to recruit and coerce girls, boys and women into sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the weekslong trial, multiple victims established a pattern where they would see Kelly at a show or out in public, and an associate of Kelly would hand them a phone number to call. From there they would be ensnared in a system of sexual and psychological abuse. Kelly forced his victims to perform sexual acts for his gratification (which he often filmed). He set up strict rules dictating where his victims were allowed to go and who they were allowed to speak to. And he forced to them to write letters or video tape themselves claiming they were doing everything of their own free will.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Accusers spoke about how he hurt them\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before the judge announced Kelly’s sentence, seven women made their own statements to and about him and about the abuse they suffered. At no point did Kelly look at his accusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13848980']A woman identified in court as Angela said, “We will be able to live again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said, “I am a representation of every woman, boy, child, man that you have ever afflicted with your deplorable, inexplicable acts, and with that I leave you with yourself, Robert Sylvester Kelly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman, known in court as Jane Doe 2, described enduring depression and stress related to Kelly’s abuse. She paused in her comments to demand his attention when Kelly whispered to his attorney. “I’m sorry,” she said. “I don’t want to interrupt his conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man identified as Charles, the father of another woman, said in a resigned tone, “So many people love you and they hate us.” He noted that Kelly hadn’t expressed remorse. Charles urged Kelly to confess and to ask for God’s forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kelly’s defense lawyer promises an appeal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Obviously he’s devastated,” Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean said outside the courthouse. “Thirty years in prison is like a life sentence for him, but at the same time we knew the government was asking for 25 years. We were prepared for what the judge might impose and we are now prepared to fight this appeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Victims were heard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After the sentencing hearing, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said the case meant the “voices of mostly Black and brown women and children … were heard and believed, and for [them,] justice was finally achieved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentencing comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decades of allegations\u003c/a> against the multi-platinum singer. In 2008, he stood trial in his hometown of Chicago for child pornography. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/91480976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquitted \u003c/a>of all charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13901400']From there, Kelly continued to live his life of superstardom, performing across the world and selling out venues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13848278/making-surviving-r-kelly-a-conversation-with-executive-producer-dream-hampton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> TV docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a> renewed interest in the sexual abuse allegations against Kelly and gave a sustained push to the activists who had been pushing for Kelly to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685912752/the-muterkelly-movement-takes-its-protest-to-the-steps-of-his-record-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulled off airwaves and stages.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jovante Cunningham, an accuser who had appeared in \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, said after the sentencing, “There wasn’t a day in my life, up until this moment, that I actually believed that the judicial system would come through for Black and brown girls. Thirty years did he do this, and 30 years is what he got.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. 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Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was sentenced in New York by federal Judge Ann Donnelly, who spoke at length before issuing the sentence. At one point, she quoted a victim impact statement from a woman known in court as Stephanie, who told Kelly, “No price was too high for someone else to pay for your happiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13903808","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This case is not about sex,” the judge said. “It is about violence, cruelty and control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnelly acknowledged points made by defense, including that Kelly endured a very difficult childhood, with sexual abuse at the hands of his sister and a landlord. However, she added, “You are a person who had great advantages—worldwide fame and celebrity, untold money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly declined to address the court himself. His lawyer cited pending cases: a second federal trial in Illinois, slated to begin Aug. 15, and separate criminal charges in Minnesota. The charges include child pornography and obstruction of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kelly’s conviction\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903808/r-kelly-found-guilty-of-racketeering-and-sex-trafficking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last year, Kelly was found guilty\u003c/a> of charges including sexual exploitation of a child, racketeering, bribery and sex trafficking. The jury found the government proved Kelly was at the head of a criminal conspiracy to recruit and coerce girls, boys and women into sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the weekslong trial, multiple victims established a pattern where they would see Kelly at a show or out in public, and an associate of Kelly would hand them a phone number to call. From there they would be ensnared in a system of sexual and psychological abuse. Kelly forced his victims to perform sexual acts for his gratification (which he often filmed). He set up strict rules dictating where his victims were allowed to go and who they were allowed to speak to. And he forced to them to write letters or video tape themselves claiming they were doing everything of their own free will.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Accusers spoke about how he hurt them\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before the judge announced Kelly’s sentence, seven women made their own statements to and about him and about the abuse they suffered. At no point did Kelly look at his accusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13848980","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A woman identified in court as Angela said, “We will be able to live again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said, “I am a representation of every woman, boy, child, man that you have ever afflicted with your deplorable, inexplicable acts, and with that I leave you with yourself, Robert Sylvester Kelly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman, known in court as Jane Doe 2, described enduring depression and stress related to Kelly’s abuse. She paused in her comments to demand his attention when Kelly whispered to his attorney. “I’m sorry,” she said. “I don’t want to interrupt his conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man identified as Charles, the father of another woman, said in a resigned tone, “So many people love you and they hate us.” He noted that Kelly hadn’t expressed remorse. Charles urged Kelly to confess and to ask for God’s forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kelly’s defense lawyer promises an appeal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Obviously he’s devastated,” Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean said outside the courthouse. “Thirty years in prison is like a life sentence for him, but at the same time we knew the government was asking for 25 years. We were prepared for what the judge might impose and we are now prepared to fight this appeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Victims were heard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After the sentencing hearing, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said the case meant the “voices of mostly Black and brown women and children … were heard and believed, and for [them,] justice was finally achieved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentencing comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decades of allegations\u003c/a> against the multi-platinum singer. In 2008, he stood trial in his hometown of Chicago for child pornography. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/91480976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquitted \u003c/a>of all charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13901400","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>From there, Kelly continued to live his life of superstardom, performing across the world and selling out venues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13848278/making-surviving-r-kelly-a-conversation-with-executive-producer-dream-hampton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> TV docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a> renewed interest in the sexual abuse allegations against Kelly and gave a sustained push to the activists who had been pushing for Kelly to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685912752/the-muterkelly-movement-takes-its-protest-to-the-steps-of-his-record-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulled off airwaves and stages.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jovante Cunningham, an accuser who had appeared in \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, said after the sentencing, “There wasn’t a day in my life, up until this moment, that I actually believed that the judicial system would come through for Black and brown girls. Thirty years did he do this, and 30 years is what he got.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=R.+Kelly+is+sentenced+to+30+years+in+prison+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13915562/r-kelly-is-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison","authors":["92"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_1962","arts_2461","arts_6443"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13915563","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13903808":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13903808","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13903808","score":null,"sort":[1632771690000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"r-kelly-found-guilty-of-racketeering-and-sex-trafficking","title":"R. Kelly Found Guilty of Racketeering and Sex Trafficking","publishDate":1632771690,"format":"standard","headTitle":"R. Kelly Found Guilty of Racketeering and Sex Trafficking | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>After more than\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 25 years of accusations\u003c/a> and a New York federal court trial that lasted seven weeks, R&B singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a> has been found guilty of charges including sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, kidnapping, racketeering and sex trafficking involving six victims. Kelly faces a possible sentence of 10 years to life in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly sat absolutely still as the foreperson gave the jury’s verdict to Judge Ann Donnelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13901400']Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York successfully proved to a jury of seven men and five women that Kelly had been the head of a criminal enterprise, whose purpose was to lure girls, boys and women to the R&B singer for his sexual gratification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of awaiting sentencing in this New York case, Kelly will face a second federal trial on charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice in Illinois. Some of those accusations are related to a 2008 child pornography trial in Chicago, in which he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/91480976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquitted of all charges\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Kelly faces outstanding criminal charges in both Cook County, Ill., where he was indicted by the state attorney in\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748370799/r-kelly-charged-with-two-criminal-counts-in-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Feb. 2019\u003c/a> for aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims (three of them minors), and in Minnesota, where Mr. Kelly was charged in Aug. 2019 with engaging in prostitution with a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sentencing in New York is scheduled for May 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=R.+Kelly+Found+Guilty+Of+Racketeering+And+Sex+Trafficking&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Kelly was found guilty of sexual exploitation of a child, racketeering and sex trafficking. He faces 10 years to life in prison.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007693,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":247},"headData":{"title":"R. Kelly Found Guilty of Racketeering and Sex Trafficking | KQED","description":"Kelly was found guilty of sexual exploitation of a child, racketeering and sex trafficking. He faces 10 years to life in prison.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"R. Kelly Found Guilty of Racketeering and Sex Trafficking","datePublished":"2021-09-27T19:41:30.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:14:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Elizabeth Williams","nprByline":"Anastasia Tsioulcas","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"1040528011","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1040528011&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040528011/r-kelly-verdict-guilty-racketeering-sex-trafficking?ft=nprml&f=1040528011","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:36:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:23:20 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:36:15 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13903808/r-kelly-found-guilty-of-racketeering-and-sex-trafficking","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After more than\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 25 years of accusations\u003c/a> and a New York federal court trial that lasted seven weeks, R&B singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a> has been found guilty of charges including sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, kidnapping, racketeering and sex trafficking involving six victims. Kelly faces a possible sentence of 10 years to life in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly sat absolutely still as the foreperson gave the jury’s verdict to Judge Ann Donnelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13901400","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York successfully proved to a jury of seven men and five women that Kelly had been the head of a criminal enterprise, whose purpose was to lure girls, boys and women to the R&B singer for his sexual gratification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of awaiting sentencing in this New York case, Kelly will face a second federal trial on charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice in Illinois. Some of those accusations are related to a 2008 child pornography trial in Chicago, in which he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/91480976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquitted of all charges\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Kelly faces outstanding criminal charges in both Cook County, Ill., where he was indicted by the state attorney in\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748370799/r-kelly-charged-with-two-criminal-counts-in-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Feb. 2019\u003c/a> for aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims (three of them minors), and in Minnesota, where Mr. Kelly was charged in Aug. 2019 with engaging in prostitution with a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sentencing in New York is scheduled for May 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=R.+Kelly+Found+Guilty+Of+Racketeering+And+Sex+Trafficking&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13903808/r-kelly-found-guilty-of-racketeering-and-sex-trafficking","authors":["byline_arts_13903808"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_1962","arts_2461","arts_6443"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13903809","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13903191":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13903191","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13903191","score":null,"sort":[1631740317000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"notebook-a-month-into-r-kellys-trial-heres-what-its-been-like-in-the-courtroom","title":"Notebook: A Month Into R. Kelly's Trial, Here's What it's Been Like in the Courtroom","publishDate":1631740317,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Notebook: A Month Into R. Kelly’s Trial, Here’s What it’s Been Like in the Courtroom | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This report includes allegations of sexual and physical abuse.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal trial against \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a> in New York is now almost at the end of its fourth week of testimony. Dozens of witnesses for the prosecution, including 11 alleged victims, have appeared on the stand in this case, in which the R&B superstar stands accused of running a criminal enterprise not unlike the mob. In this case, the government says, the purpose of that enterprise was to “prey upon young women and teenagers” and lure them into sexual relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13900892']When jurors were selected early last month, Judge Ann Donnelly told them that the trial would take about a full month after testimony began on Aug. 18. We’re almost at that point already now, and the prosecution is still laying out its argument. We don’t know how many more witnesses the government expects to call, who the defense team is going to put forward, or whether Kelly himself is going to take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems exceedingly unlikely, however, that the trial will wrap up in the next few days. And that’s without considering Kelly’s second scheduled federal trial, to take place in Chicago at some future time. There, Kelly will face separate charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all charges across both federal indictments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve attended the trial in Brooklyn on many days. It’s been a strange experience so far, even by the standards of high-profile celebrity cases. Because of COVID protocols, journalists and the public have been assigned to overflow courtrooms, to watch the proceedings via video and audio feeds. Every trial day, hours before the court even opens, R. Kelly supporters line up to snag hotly coveted seats in the overflow areas; multiple \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/vicbekiempis/status/1430136654916997143?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disputes\u003c/a> over seats and places in line have precipitated the intervention of U.S. marshals and local police. After court ended on Sept. 3, the NYPD \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emilyepalmer/status/1433842112810860544?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested\u003c/a> one male Kelly supporter who, according to police, was accused of sexually harassing another supporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Is that a weird shadow?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, we journalists covering the trial spend our days peering at tiny figures rendered so small onscreen that even the sketch artists seated in the front row of our overflow courtroom have had considerable difficulty discerning participants’ basic features. (“Is she wearing glasses?” “Does he have a shaved head, or is that just a weird shadow?”) We can’t see the jurors at all, because—again, due to coronavirus protocols—they are seated not in the traditional jury box, but instead spaced out in the gallery, where public observers usually sit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, we in the media have no idea how jurors are reacting to the testimony they’re hearing. Is anyone snoozing through long stretches while experts are describing the particulars of cell phone data? When alleged victims burst into tears on the stand, as several have, is anyone in the jury viscerally responding? Are jurors taking notes, or just letting information wash over them? When the defense team brings up the names of Kelly’s former peers and colleagues—for example, the late singer Whitney Houston, whose name has been raised repeatedly—do they seem star-struck?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13901400']None of those kinds of reactions will determine their eventual judgment of innocence or guilt, of course. But body language could provide insights into how they’re feeling at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not following the “rules”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Day in and day out, testimony from witnesses—both those named in the indictment and some who are alleged victims of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019972507/r-kelly-prosecutors-evidence-more-crimes-bribery-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“uncharged crimes”\u003c/a> purportedly committed by Kelly—has rung similarly throughout, and much of it has been very difficult to listen to. Six alleged victims described being abused by Kelly while they were minors. Women have detailed being forced into unwanted sexual encounters, sometimes with other people, including strangers. Women have recounted alleged episodes of intense physical and sexual abuse for breaking one of his many “rules.” Women have stated that Kelly had lied to them by claiming he had no STDs, and finding out after the fact that he had given them herpes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both women and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/r-kelly-trial-week-3-recap-accuser-testimony-aaliyah-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">men\u003c/a>, who were minors or still teenagers when they met Kelly, have said that either Kelly or one of his associates slipped them his phone number after seeing him somewhere—at a show, at a mall, at a McDonald’s—and wound up as one of his sexual partners. One woman said on the stand that Kelly made her have sex with another man as punishment for breaking his rules, and also forced her to have an abortion. Another described being \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/r-kelly-trial-victim-imprisoned-drugged-raped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raped\u003c/a> backstage at one of the singer’s shows, soon after meeting Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still another, “Angela,” a former back-up dancer for Kelly and a back-up singer for Kelly’s late protégée, Aaliyah, said in testimony Monday that she witnessed Kelly appearing to perform oral sex on Aaliyah when the singer was just 13 or 14 years old. “Angela” appeared in the docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, but did not make accusations of her own there. On the stand, however, she said that she, too, was sexually abused by Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Zombieish”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Also on Monday, a man who went by “Alex” in court, but who also was referred to in other testimony by the nickname “Nephew,” recounted being directed by Kelly to have sex with “countless” young women, as well as with Kelly himself, while Kelly recorded them all on video. Alex said he was not allowed to talk to the women or to learn their names. He flatly described the women’s demeanor during their sexual encounters as “zombieish.” Alex also said that he himself was “brainwashed” by Kelly. When asked by a prosecutor, “Why did you do what the defendant told you to do?” Alex hung his head and said, “I actually don’t even know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109968']Two experts recently told \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/cult-experts-why-r-kelly-accusers-stayed-despite-alleged-abuse-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Insider\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Kelly’s alleged behavior fits that of a cult leader. According to Rick Ross, executive director of the Cult Education Institute, “The women that are under his control, or have been under his control, they’re not functioning independently. He’s engendered dependency upon himself to make value judgments, to critically think, to analyze things—it’s incapacitated these women from being able to think for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, the defense team has alternately sought to characterize the women as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-r-kelly-bd42a092620ac9d159a8e6e8e9824e62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“groupies\u003c/a>,” or argued that Kelly treated them lavishly, providing them with gifts, trips and spending sprees, while always opening doors for them and standing if they entered a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Was it MSG?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Defense lawyer Devereaux Cannick has repeatedly asked women on the stand \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/r-kelly-lawyer-twerking-sex-crimes-trial-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">if they twerked\u003c/a> at Kelly’s shows or in his presence, as if dancing suggestively meant that they deserved alleged abuse. Cannick also tried to discredit the allegations of one woman, “Sonja,” who believes that she was drugged and sexually assaulted at Kelly’s home after going there to interview him for a Utah radio station. In her testimony, she said that she’d eaten a few bites of Chinese food shortly before she fell asleep. “Was it MSG?” Cannick asked her during cross-examination, implying that she’d gotten sick because she’d ingested monosodium glutamate, a common amino acid present in everything from tomatoes to Cool Ranch Doritos. (Activists say that anti-MSG sentiments are more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/asia/chinese-restaurant-syndrome-msg-intl-hnk-scli/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racism\u003c/a> than about science.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly has a team of four lawyers, two of whom have never argued a federal trial before—and it often shows. Just during the defense’s opening statement, for example, Judge Donnelly interrupted defense lawyer Nicole Blank Becker to ask for a sidebar, or sustained objections against her, more than half a dozen times. My media colleagues who are full-time court reporters, who also are covering the Kelly trial, tell me this is very unusual, especially in such a high-profile case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the defense has pointed out inconsistencies between what one witness said on the stand during the trial and statements she had made earlier. Another woman brought forward by the prosecution as a former girlfriend of Kelly’s clearly did not want to testify; what she said on the stand didn’t fit certain patterns laid out by other female witnesses, which served the defense’s argument well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It’s a bit misleading to call him a co-lyricist”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, outside of court, R. Kelly received a songwriting credit on Drake’s new album, \u003cem>Certified Lover Boy\u003c/em>, which dropped earlier this month. The project has earned Drake a \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9629040/drake-hot-100-history-way-2-sexy-number-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">historic place\u003c/a> on the \u003cem>Billboard \u003c/em>charts, with nine out of the top 10 songs on the Hot 100. Drake’s “TSU”—currently charting at No. 9—incorporates material from a song released by R. Kelly in 1998 called “Half on a Baby.” The Drake song includes a sample from a track on which Houston DJ OG Ron C raps over an orchestral passage from the Kelly song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_108417']In a recent Instagram comment, longtime Drake producer and collaborator \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/drake-r-kelly-songwriting-tsu-certified-lover-boy-sample-1235057256/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah “40” Shebib wrote\u003c/a>: “It [the R. Kelly sample] has no significance no lyrics are present, r Kelly’s voice isn’t even present but if we wanted to use Ron c talking we were forced to license it. Doesn’t sit well with me let me just say that. And I’m not here to defend drakes lyrics, but I thought I would clear up that there is no actual r Kelly present and it’s a bit misleading to call him a co lyricist.” Still, having worked in the business as long as Drake and Shebib have, they surely must know how credits are parceled out for samples—and it’s hard to imagine Drake and his collaborators wouldn’t have foreseen any \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS883US883&sxsrf=AOaemvKH0VzX-5W7TyHAKr9rVyZGkMpPTw:1631042539096&q=drake+r.+kelly+tsu&tbm=nws&source=univ&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDrJ_5yu3yAhWgGVkFHa1vC_wQt8YBegQIAhAG&biw=1280&bih=577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blowback\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s equally hard to fathom that they didn’t realize the optics of utilizing an R. Kelly-related sample in this particular moment in time—and that they didn’t recognize that scandal sells. After \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>first aired, streams of R. Kelly’s music \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/kellys-music-sales-reportedly-spike-docuseries-60207069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surged\u003c/a>, even though he had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/06/01/616179202/spotify-to-roll-back-its-hateful-conduct-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed\u003c/a> from Spotify’s playlists the preceding year. Just as Aaliyah’s name and the story of her marriage to Kelly at age 15 was coming up in court testimony, her uncle Barry Hankerson—who had managed both her and Kelly, and who owns the rights to much of her material—began to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">release\u003c/a> many of her recordings to streaming services for the first time, to the dismay of Aaliyah’s estate, including \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/aaliyah-estate-manager-battle-hankerson-1235035097/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her mother\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It was dues time”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a weeping “Angela” gave testimony about her own alleged abuse and that of Aaliyah. During one tour stop in 1992 or 1993 in Washington, D.C., Angela said, she and a group of other teenaged girls, including Aaliyah, were instructed by Kelly to stay at the hotel while he and his male associates hit the town. Hungry, the girls went to a nearby 7-Eleven for food. While outside, they ran into Kelly, who was enraged. The punishment for their supposed infraction, Angela said, was to “put out” and have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was dues time,” she explained. Angela said that on this occasion she refused him, and suggested to Kelly that she would call her mother and let her family know what was going on. Kelly allegedly relented, saying he was “just joking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah billboards have \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-focus-finally-turns-to-aaliyah-in-r-kellys-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sprouted up\u003c/a> around Manhattan in the past few weeks, hailing the arrival of her albums on streaming services. Often, just minutes after I leave court, I pass underneath a giant version of her towering over Canal Street, full of such promise, fire and swagger. Some days, it’s been hard even to glance up at her, given the testimony that we’ve heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Notebook%3A+A+Month+Into+R.+Kelly%27s+Trial%2C+Here%27s+What+It%27s+Been+Like+In+The+Courtroom&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Four weeks in, one reporter explains, it's often been hard to hear testimony from the women and men R. Kelly allegedly abused.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007745,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":2126},"headData":{"title":"Notebook: A Month Into R. Kelly's Trial, Here's What it's Been Like in the Courtroom | KQED","description":"Four weeks in, one reporter explains, it's often been hard to hear testimony from the women and men R. Kelly allegedly abused.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Notebook: A Month Into R. Kelly's Trial, Here's What it's Been Like in the Courtroom","datePublished":"2021-09-15T21:11:57.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:15:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Elizabeth Williams","nprByline":"Anastasia Tsioulcas","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"1037090539","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1037090539&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037090539/r-kelly-trial-inside-the-courtroom?ft=nprml&f=1037090539","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:10:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:10:41 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:22:02 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13903191/notebook-a-month-into-r-kellys-trial-heres-what-its-been-like-in-the-courtroom","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This report includes allegations of sexual and physical abuse.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal trial against \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a> in New York is now almost at the end of its fourth week of testimony. Dozens of witnesses for the prosecution, including 11 alleged victims, have appeared on the stand in this case, in which the R&B superstar stands accused of running a criminal enterprise not unlike the mob. In this case, the government says, the purpose of that enterprise was to “prey upon young women and teenagers” and lure them into sexual relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13900892","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When jurors were selected early last month, Judge Ann Donnelly told them that the trial would take about a full month after testimony began on Aug. 18. We’re almost at that point already now, and the prosecution is still laying out its argument. We don’t know how many more witnesses the government expects to call, who the defense team is going to put forward, or whether Kelly himself is going to take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems exceedingly unlikely, however, that the trial will wrap up in the next few days. And that’s without considering Kelly’s second scheduled federal trial, to take place in Chicago at some future time. There, Kelly will face separate charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all charges across both federal indictments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve attended the trial in Brooklyn on many days. It’s been a strange experience so far, even by the standards of high-profile celebrity cases. Because of COVID protocols, journalists and the public have been assigned to overflow courtrooms, to watch the proceedings via video and audio feeds. Every trial day, hours before the court even opens, R. Kelly supporters line up to snag hotly coveted seats in the overflow areas; multiple \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/vicbekiempis/status/1430136654916997143?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disputes\u003c/a> over seats and places in line have precipitated the intervention of U.S. marshals and local police. After court ended on Sept. 3, the NYPD \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emilyepalmer/status/1433842112810860544?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested\u003c/a> one male Kelly supporter who, according to police, was accused of sexually harassing another supporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Is that a weird shadow?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, we journalists covering the trial spend our days peering at tiny figures rendered so small onscreen that even the sketch artists seated in the front row of our overflow courtroom have had considerable difficulty discerning participants’ basic features. (“Is she wearing glasses?” “Does he have a shaved head, or is that just a weird shadow?”) We can’t see the jurors at all, because—again, due to coronavirus protocols—they are seated not in the traditional jury box, but instead spaced out in the gallery, where public observers usually sit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, we in the media have no idea how jurors are reacting to the testimony they’re hearing. Is anyone snoozing through long stretches while experts are describing the particulars of cell phone data? When alleged victims burst into tears on the stand, as several have, is anyone in the jury viscerally responding? Are jurors taking notes, or just letting information wash over them? When the defense team brings up the names of Kelly’s former peers and colleagues—for example, the late singer Whitney Houston, whose name has been raised repeatedly—do they seem star-struck?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13901400","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>None of those kinds of reactions will determine their eventual judgment of innocence or guilt, of course. But body language could provide insights into how they’re feeling at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not following the “rules”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Day in and day out, testimony from witnesses—both those named in the indictment and some who are alleged victims of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019972507/r-kelly-prosecutors-evidence-more-crimes-bribery-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“uncharged crimes”\u003c/a> purportedly committed by Kelly—has rung similarly throughout, and much of it has been very difficult to listen to. Six alleged victims described being abused by Kelly while they were minors. Women have detailed being forced into unwanted sexual encounters, sometimes with other people, including strangers. Women have recounted alleged episodes of intense physical and sexual abuse for breaking one of his many “rules.” Women have stated that Kelly had lied to them by claiming he had no STDs, and finding out after the fact that he had given them herpes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both women and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/r-kelly-trial-week-3-recap-accuser-testimony-aaliyah-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">men\u003c/a>, who were minors or still teenagers when they met Kelly, have said that either Kelly or one of his associates slipped them his phone number after seeing him somewhere—at a show, at a mall, at a McDonald’s—and wound up as one of his sexual partners. One woman said on the stand that Kelly made her have sex with another man as punishment for breaking his rules, and also forced her to have an abortion. Another described being \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/r-kelly-trial-victim-imprisoned-drugged-raped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raped\u003c/a> backstage at one of the singer’s shows, soon after meeting Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still another, “Angela,” a former back-up dancer for Kelly and a back-up singer for Kelly’s late protégée, Aaliyah, said in testimony Monday that she witnessed Kelly appearing to perform oral sex on Aaliyah when the singer was just 13 or 14 years old. “Angela” appeared in the docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, but did not make accusations of her own there. On the stand, however, she said that she, too, was sexually abused by Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Zombieish”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Also on Monday, a man who went by “Alex” in court, but who also was referred to in other testimony by the nickname “Nephew,” recounted being directed by Kelly to have sex with “countless” young women, as well as with Kelly himself, while Kelly recorded them all on video. Alex said he was not allowed to talk to the women or to learn their names. He flatly described the women’s demeanor during their sexual encounters as “zombieish.” Alex also said that he himself was “brainwashed” by Kelly. When asked by a prosecutor, “Why did you do what the defendant told you to do?” Alex hung his head and said, “I actually don’t even know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_109968","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two experts recently told \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/cult-experts-why-r-kelly-accusers-stayed-despite-alleged-abuse-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Insider\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Kelly’s alleged behavior fits that of a cult leader. According to Rick Ross, executive director of the Cult Education Institute, “The women that are under his control, or have been under his control, they’re not functioning independently. He’s engendered dependency upon himself to make value judgments, to critically think, to analyze things—it’s incapacitated these women from being able to think for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, the defense team has alternately sought to characterize the women as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-r-kelly-bd42a092620ac9d159a8e6e8e9824e62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“groupies\u003c/a>,” or argued that Kelly treated them lavishly, providing them with gifts, trips and spending sprees, while always opening doors for them and standing if they entered a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Was it MSG?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Defense lawyer Devereaux Cannick has repeatedly asked women on the stand \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/r-kelly-lawyer-twerking-sex-crimes-trial-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">if they twerked\u003c/a> at Kelly’s shows or in his presence, as if dancing suggestively meant that they deserved alleged abuse. Cannick also tried to discredit the allegations of one woman, “Sonja,” who believes that she was drugged and sexually assaulted at Kelly’s home after going there to interview him for a Utah radio station. In her testimony, she said that she’d eaten a few bites of Chinese food shortly before she fell asleep. “Was it MSG?” Cannick asked her during cross-examination, implying that she’d gotten sick because she’d ingested monosodium glutamate, a common amino acid present in everything from tomatoes to Cool Ranch Doritos. (Activists say that anti-MSG sentiments are more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/asia/chinese-restaurant-syndrome-msg-intl-hnk-scli/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racism\u003c/a> than about science.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly has a team of four lawyers, two of whom have never argued a federal trial before—and it often shows. Just during the defense’s opening statement, for example, Judge Donnelly interrupted defense lawyer Nicole Blank Becker to ask for a sidebar, or sustained objections against her, more than half a dozen times. My media colleagues who are full-time court reporters, who also are covering the Kelly trial, tell me this is very unusual, especially in such a high-profile case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the defense has pointed out inconsistencies between what one witness said on the stand during the trial and statements she had made earlier. Another woman brought forward by the prosecution as a former girlfriend of Kelly’s clearly did not want to testify; what she said on the stand didn’t fit certain patterns laid out by other female witnesses, which served the defense’s argument well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It’s a bit misleading to call him a co-lyricist”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, outside of court, R. Kelly received a songwriting credit on Drake’s new album, \u003cem>Certified Lover Boy\u003c/em>, which dropped earlier this month. The project has earned Drake a \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9629040/drake-hot-100-history-way-2-sexy-number-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">historic place\u003c/a> on the \u003cem>Billboard \u003c/em>charts, with nine out of the top 10 songs on the Hot 100. Drake’s “TSU”—currently charting at No. 9—incorporates material from a song released by R. Kelly in 1998 called “Half on a Baby.” The Drake song includes a sample from a track on which Houston DJ OG Ron C raps over an orchestral passage from the Kelly song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_108417","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a recent Instagram comment, longtime Drake producer and collaborator \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/drake-r-kelly-songwriting-tsu-certified-lover-boy-sample-1235057256/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah “40” Shebib wrote\u003c/a>: “It [the R. Kelly sample] has no significance no lyrics are present, r Kelly’s voice isn’t even present but if we wanted to use Ron c talking we were forced to license it. Doesn’t sit well with me let me just say that. And I’m not here to defend drakes lyrics, but I thought I would clear up that there is no actual r Kelly present and it’s a bit misleading to call him a co lyricist.” Still, having worked in the business as long as Drake and Shebib have, they surely must know how credits are parceled out for samples—and it’s hard to imagine Drake and his collaborators wouldn’t have foreseen any \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS883US883&sxsrf=AOaemvKH0VzX-5W7TyHAKr9rVyZGkMpPTw:1631042539096&q=drake+r.+kelly+tsu&tbm=nws&source=univ&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDrJ_5yu3yAhWgGVkFHa1vC_wQt8YBegQIAhAG&biw=1280&bih=577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blowback\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s equally hard to fathom that they didn’t realize the optics of utilizing an R. Kelly-related sample in this particular moment in time—and that they didn’t recognize that scandal sells. After \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>first aired, streams of R. Kelly’s music \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/kellys-music-sales-reportedly-spike-docuseries-60207069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surged\u003c/a>, even though he had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/06/01/616179202/spotify-to-roll-back-its-hateful-conduct-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed\u003c/a> from Spotify’s playlists the preceding year. Just as Aaliyah’s name and the story of her marriage to Kelly at age 15 was coming up in court testimony, her uncle Barry Hankerson—who had managed both her and Kelly, and who owns the rights to much of her material—began to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">release\u003c/a> many of her recordings to streaming services for the first time, to the dismay of Aaliyah’s estate, including \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/aaliyah-estate-manager-battle-hankerson-1235035097/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her mother\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It was dues time”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a weeping “Angela” gave testimony about her own alleged abuse and that of Aaliyah. During one tour stop in 1992 or 1993 in Washington, D.C., Angela said, she and a group of other teenaged girls, including Aaliyah, were instructed by Kelly to stay at the hotel while he and his male associates hit the town. Hungry, the girls went to a nearby 7-Eleven for food. While outside, they ran into Kelly, who was enraged. The punishment for their supposed infraction, Angela said, was to “put out” and have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was dues time,” she explained. Angela said that on this occasion she refused him, and suggested to Kelly that she would call her mother and let her family know what was going on. Kelly allegedly relented, saying he was “just joking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah billboards have \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-focus-finally-turns-to-aaliyah-in-r-kellys-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sprouted up\u003c/a> around Manhattan in the past few weeks, hailing the arrival of her albums on streaming services. Often, just minutes after I leave court, I pass underneath a giant version of her towering over Canal Street, full of such promise, fire and swagger. Some days, it’s been hard even to glance up at her, given the testimony that we’ve heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Notebook%3A+A+Month+Into+R.+Kelly%27s+Trial%2C+Here%27s+What+It%27s+Been+Like+In+The+Courtroom&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13903191/notebook-a-month-into-r-kellys-trial-heres-what-its-been-like-in-the-courtroom","authors":["byline_arts_13903191"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_6117","arts_1962","arts_2461","arts_924","arts_6443"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13903192","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13901852":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13901852","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13901852","score":null,"sort":[1629991550000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"on-the-joys-and-complexities-of-aaliyahs-music-20-years-after-her-death","title":"On the Joys and Complexities of Aaliyah's Music, 20 Years After Her Death","publishDate":1629991550,"format":"standard","headTitle":"On the Joys and Complexities of Aaliyah’s Music, 20 Years After Her Death | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>It was such a pleasurable experience being able to finally listen to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15121547/aaliyah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaliyah\u003c/a>‘s \u003cem>One In A Million \u003c/em>album from beginning to end this past weekend, her lilting vocals pouring smoothly through my Sonos speakers. This was a moment fans have been waiting on for years, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">behind-the-scenes business wrangling\u003c/a> has long kept the majority of her relatively small discography off most streaming platforms. And as of Aug. 20, just a few days ahead of the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> anniversary of her death in a plane crash, it was finally here, her second studio album available to enjoy and rewind and skip ahead through and immerse one’s self in, in all its sonic glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her third and final studio album is set to arrive in the fall, and an equilibrium of sorts will have ultimately been restored. Because for far too long, only her first and most fraught album, \u003cem>Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number\u003c/em>, had been widely available, a fact that felt like a slap in the face to her legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In death, as in life, Aaliyah deserved better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what, exactly, does “better” entail? Especially within the last couple of years, some things have become undeniably obvious: She deserved to have been better protected by those around her, to have had someone who saw the writing on the wall when a grown man, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a>, was penning songs for a 14-year-old to sing as a come-on to an older “lover.” The music industry shouldn’t have swept the revelation of Kelly’s illegal marriage to Aaliyah when she was just 15 (or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1022231076/r-kelly-abuse-charges-trial-aaliyah-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many other allegations\u003c/a> that have arisen over the years) under the rug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More difficult, at least for me as both a fan and critic, is to reconcile that early part of her career with the rest of her body of work. A part of me would love nothing more than to never have to mention Kelly—who would later go by the ghastly nickname “\u003ca href=\"http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2016/2/3/r-kelly-reveals-why-he-calls-himself-the-pied-piper-of-rb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pied Piper of R&B\u003c/a>“—when discussing Aaliyah. It remains infuriating that (alleged) victims of sexual abuse are forever linked in name to their abusers, often to the detriment and overshadowing of everything else they accomplished. But while \u003cem>Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number \u003c/em>is forever tainted in the minds of fans, it’s impossible to ignore how crucial it was in establishing Aaliyah’s continuous appeal even as she distanced herself from Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKSz4NE6PwY&t=1s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been said many times before, but really it can’t be overstated: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d03dmVx86Nk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One in a Million\u003c/a>” sounds as if it was predicting the future; indeed, it sounds like now. In Timbaland’s skittering production, Missy Elliott’s staccato phrasing of the lyrics, and Aaliyah’s mellifluous interpretation you can hear the descendants that have followed in their wake—\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtVHStkB5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drake\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEm3lY3trRU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jhené Aiko\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXgA3koewAo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Syd\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFMEBquxeO8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Normani\u003c/a>. Her various looks in the video were sleek, sexy, and mysterious, as she donned low-rise pants, crop tops and bras, and, in one scene, a silver eye-patch that seemed to come straight from a sci-fi dystopia playbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She seemed fully formed, utterly confident and secure in her body. This was true in her other songs from that era as well, from “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Qy6vaMsFQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">If Your Girl Only Knew\u003c/a>,” a self-assured midtempo joint in which she boasts how she won’t “be no fool” for a guy who’s trying to cheat with her, to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ha5Ng913w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are You That Somebody?\u003c/a>” an earworm where she insists on keeping a hookup on the low until he can prove he’s serious. And if you were a young Black girl in the ’90s like I was, of course you were probably going to look at her and be struck by how cool she seemed, without thinking twice about it. You’d assume she was a grown woman, because if you’re below the age of 12, everyone older than you seems \u003cem>ancient\u003c/em>, and what young person is able to assert that much control? Yet she wasn’t even 18 when she recorded \u003cem>One in a Million\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what made her special—she stood out from the balladeers of the era (the Mariahs, Whitneys, En Vogues) and the teen pop stars (Brandy, Britney, Christina), in part because she seemed in command without needing to do too much. Her theatrics were subdued and contained, more slinky and less in-your-face. In hindsight, though, I’ve begun to wonder what it meant that she was introduced to the world as being fully formed, despite being a young teenager, an age where everyone is still trying to figure themselves out (and usually awkwardly so).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGjras2kvQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Female teen pop stars usually emerge with a hint of innocence baked into their public persona, even as they playfully suggest their own sexuality and fuel many a boy’s or man’s sexual fantasy: Britney Spears is the prototypical example here (the schoolgirl outfit and pigtails in “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">…Baby One More Time\u003c/a>“; that infamous \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-teen-queen-rolling-stones-1999-cover-story-254871/\">\u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> cover\u003c/a> with the lingerie and stuffed Teletubby), but this was also true of Spears’ contemporaries in the ’90s and early ’00s, from Christina Aguilera to Mandy Moore to Jessica Simpson. The playbook for the biggest of those stars seemed to be this: Breakout by towing the line between virginal and sexy (and piss off religious groups and middle-class suburban parents in the process), then, a couple of years later, when you’re in your late teens or early 20s, enter your “mature” period, i.e. going full-on SEX KITTEN. Suggest a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzybwwf2HoQ#t=02m46s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sweaty, dance-orgy\u003c/a> in your video; get \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rg3sAb8Id8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dirrty\u003c/a>. Get \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/wtf-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blamed for corrupting America’s tweens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah was rarely granted the opportunity to display that kind of innocence—she was branded as “mature” out the gate. From the beginning of her career, the dichotomy between her actual and perceived age was integral to her image. It was right there in the title of that debut album; in the lyrics of that song, where she seductively coos that “age ain’t nothin’ but a number, throwing down ain’t nothin’ but a thang.” In early interviews her exact age was usually treated as a jokey open secret—”\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMwKZE6Ce4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I won’t reveal it, but I’m in my teens\u003c/a>, I’m still in high school”; “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwasUMVq-_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You know I don’t tell my age, it’s a secret\u003c/a>,” she’d coyly respond, with a giggle and a smile, when asked about how old she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901854\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13901854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-2250935_custom-23251aaa6a7c48f3b90d7b76b1b37c7f8c397d8e.jpg\" alt=\"Aaliyah at 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' at the NBC Studios in Burbank, July 2001.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-2250935_custom-23251aaa6a7c48f3b90d7b76b1b37c7f8c397d8e.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-2250935_custom-23251aaa6a7c48f3b90d7b76b1b37c7f8c397d8e-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaliyah at ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ at the NBC Studios in Burbank, July 2001. \u003ccite>(Kevin Winter/Getty Images.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clashing with the acknowledgment of her youth was how Kelly and her management team played down that crucial facet of her age, in the way she swaggered and sauntered in the baggy outfits, dark sunglasses, and swoop of hair draped over one eye, as if she were a neo-noir femme fatale from the ‘hood. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/107416%7C150623/Veronica-Lake/#overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Veronica Lake\u003c/a> was a frequent reference point for critics describing her look and mysterious aura.) The public pretty much accepted and played along with it. \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>‘s review of \u003cem>Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number \u003c/em>described her as an “\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=UAgEAAAAMBAJ&q=aaliyah+age+ain't+nothing+but+a+number&pg=PA64#v=snippet&q=aaliyah%20age%20ain't%20nothing%20but%20a%20number&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urban teenaged siren\u003c/a>“; a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/archives-remembering-aaliyah/2011/08/25/gIQAEjUwdJ_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">review in the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> held her up as a refreshing divergence from other teen stars of the moment, because unlike them, “she doesn’t try to assume emotions she’s never felt or take on material outside her range of experience”—implying that the image of Aaliyah as a fully sexualized woman (not a 15-year-old girl) with experience “go[ing] all the way” had been so strong at the time as to have been normalized and etched in stone. When that’s the public’s first impression of you in this business, there’s ostensibly no going back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so she didn’t—instead, she continued to build upon that persona while leaving Kelly behind. If \u003cem>One in a Million \u003c/em>largely eschews the ickiness that lies at the core of \u003cem>Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number\u003c/em>, it’s because that Svengali wasn’t involved, and Aaliyah was a little bit older. Still, there’s that tension and looming sadness over the thought that the singer was forced to grow up too soon. The evolution from \u003cem>Age\u003c/em>-era Aaliyah to \u003cem>One in a Million\u003c/em>-era Aaliyah wasn’t such a huge leap stylistically; she was still being put forth and received as more experienced than her counterparts, and comparisons to Janet Jackson (who by then had fully transitioned into her uber-sensual \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b_KfAGiglc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>janet.\u003c/em>-era\u003c/a>) began to surface. “\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=4SsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA133#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It’s still illegal to act on the thought\u003c/a>” of Aaliyah’s sexuality, dream hampton wrote in her contemporary review of \u003cem>One in a Million\u003c/em>, while noting that since her debut, the singer had “encourage[d] Lolita fantasies.” (hampton would later go on to executive produce the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1029623250/r-kelly-britney-spears-allen-farrow-russell-simmons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">damning and watershed docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the video for the title track, her love interest is Ginuwine, the R&B singer who was nearly a decade older than her; years later, Timbaland, who was 23 when he first met 16-year-old Aaliyah, would \u003ca href=\"https://www.complex.com/music/2019/01/timbaland-confesses-his-love-for-underage-aaliyah-in-resurfaced-video#cookie-settings\">admit in an interview\u003c/a> that he was “in love” with her, and had to “fight” to control his attraction to her. (By all accounts, their friendship remained platonic and professional.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah’s was a different trapping of fame as a teenaged female pop star—instead of dodging invasive questions about whether or not she was \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/1473676/britney-talks-sex-turns-out-she-really-wasnt-that-innocent/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a virgin\u003c/a> or if she’d \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgImasn50ZU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gotten a boob job\u003c/a>, she dodged questions about an illegal marriage to a much older man while few seemed disturbed by the fact that this was even a question to be asked in the first place. (Most interviewers, in fact, seemed titillated by it.) Neither scenario is a healthy one for a young girl to have to deal with, but at least in the case of Aaliyah, the divide seems stark: to the public, white girlhood was something to be fiercely protected and saved from “corruption”; Black girlhood—Black innocence—cannot even be comprehended. And when Black girlhood isn’t fathomed, it’s not protected, as the many accounts from the young girls and women featured in \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>has made clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTkba6mXMis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, there’s a narrative of resilience that can be gleaned from \u003cem>One In A Million\u003c/em>, one that unearths power in the singer’s creative choices over her image and sound post-Kelly. She seemingly took the parts that felt the most like herself—the air of mystery, the laid-back vibes—and reworked them to help pioneer a new way forward in pop and R&B. Her boldness feels less put-upon and more natural, like the musings of the older teenager/budding young adult she was at the time, especially on an earnest track like “4 Page Letter.” I love to listen to it in this way, because I remember what it was like to be 16, 17-years-old, exploring my own personality and approach to relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last years of her life, she had found more nuance to mine at 22-years-old—on “Try Again,” for instance, she expresses hesitancy in starting a new relationship, while coaxing her romantic interest to try a bit harder to earn her love and respect. That word that would follow her until the end—”mature”—still applied here, but this time it applied more to how she played with and expanded upon her vocal lyrical interpretations than it did her sexuality. She was growing up, even though she had been treated like an adult for much of her childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tragedy of Aaliyah is there are so many “What ifs?” that will forever remain unresolved. The upside is that, at least professionally, she managed to persevere in spite of the many people and institutions that failed her personally. Her final albums deserve to be heard in this way, and her legacy deserves to be remembered this way, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+Made+Aaliyah+So+Special+Is+More+Complicated+Than+It+Seems&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"At 14, she stood out for her cool and \"mature\" demeanor. But at the heart of that persona was a youth lost too soon.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007896,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":2161},"headData":{"title":"On the Joys and Complexities of Aaliyah's Music, 20 Years After Her Death | KQED","description":"At 14, she stood out for her cool and "mature" demeanor. 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This was a moment fans have been waiting on for years, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">behind-the-scenes business wrangling\u003c/a> has long kept the majority of her relatively small discography off most streaming platforms. And as of Aug. 20, just a few days ahead of the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> anniversary of her death in a plane crash, it was finally here, her second studio album available to enjoy and rewind and skip ahead through and immerse one’s self in, in all its sonic glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her third and final studio album is set to arrive in the fall, and an equilibrium of sorts will have ultimately been restored. Because for far too long, only her first and most fraught album, \u003cem>Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number\u003c/em>, had been widely available, a fact that felt like a slap in the face to her legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In death, as in life, Aaliyah deserved better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what, exactly, does “better” entail? Especially within the last couple of years, some things have become undeniably obvious: She deserved to have been better protected by those around her, to have had someone who saw the writing on the wall when a grown man, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a>, was penning songs for a 14-year-old to sing as a come-on to an older “lover.” The music industry shouldn’t have swept the revelation of Kelly’s illegal marriage to Aaliyah when she was just 15 (or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1022231076/r-kelly-abuse-charges-trial-aaliyah-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many other allegations\u003c/a> that have arisen over the years) under the rug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More difficult, at least for me as both a fan and critic, is to reconcile that early part of her career with the rest of her body of work. A part of me would love nothing more than to never have to mention Kelly—who would later go by the ghastly nickname “\u003ca href=\"http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2016/2/3/r-kelly-reveals-why-he-calls-himself-the-pied-piper-of-rb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pied Piper of R&B\u003c/a>“—when discussing Aaliyah. It remains infuriating that (alleged) victims of sexual abuse are forever linked in name to their abusers, often to the detriment and overshadowing of everything else they accomplished. But while \u003cem>Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number \u003c/em>is forever tainted in the minds of fans, it’s impossible to ignore how crucial it was in establishing Aaliyah’s continuous appeal even as she distanced herself from Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/KKSz4NE6PwY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/KKSz4NE6PwY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been said many times before, but really it can’t be overstated: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d03dmVx86Nk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One in a Million\u003c/a>” sounds as if it was predicting the future; indeed, it sounds like now. In Timbaland’s skittering production, Missy Elliott’s staccato phrasing of the lyrics, and Aaliyah’s mellifluous interpretation you can hear the descendants that have followed in their wake—\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtVHStkB5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drake\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEm3lY3trRU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jhené Aiko\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXgA3koewAo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Syd\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFMEBquxeO8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Normani\u003c/a>. Her various looks in the video were sleek, sexy, and mysterious, as she donned low-rise pants, crop tops and bras, and, in one scene, a silver eye-patch that seemed to come straight from a sci-fi dystopia playbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She seemed fully formed, utterly confident and secure in her body. This was true in her other songs from that era as well, from “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Qy6vaMsFQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">If Your Girl Only Knew\u003c/a>,” a self-assured midtempo joint in which she boasts how she won’t “be no fool” for a guy who’s trying to cheat with her, to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ha5Ng913w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are You That Somebody?\u003c/a>” an earworm where she insists on keeping a hookup on the low until he can prove he’s serious. And if you were a young Black girl in the ’90s like I was, of course you were probably going to look at her and be struck by how cool she seemed, without thinking twice about it. You’d assume she was a grown woman, because if you’re below the age of 12, everyone older than you seems \u003cem>ancient\u003c/em>, and what young person is able to assert that much control? Yet she wasn’t even 18 when she recorded \u003cem>One in a Million\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what made her special—she stood out from the balladeers of the era (the Mariahs, Whitneys, En Vogues) and the teen pop stars (Brandy, Britney, Christina), in part because she seemed in command without needing to do too much. Her theatrics were subdued and contained, more slinky and less in-your-face. In hindsight, though, I’ve begun to wonder what it meant that she was introduced to the world as being fully formed, despite being a young teenager, an age where everyone is still trying to figure themselves out (and usually awkwardly so).\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/JUGjras2kvQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/JUGjras2kvQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Female teen pop stars usually emerge with a hint of innocence baked into their public persona, even as they playfully suggest their own sexuality and fuel many a boy’s or man’s sexual fantasy: Britney Spears is the prototypical example here (the schoolgirl outfit and pigtails in “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">…Baby One More Time\u003c/a>“; that infamous \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-teen-queen-rolling-stones-1999-cover-story-254871/\">\u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> cover\u003c/a> with the lingerie and stuffed Teletubby), but this was also true of Spears’ contemporaries in the ’90s and early ’00s, from Christina Aguilera to Mandy Moore to Jessica Simpson. The playbook for the biggest of those stars seemed to be this: Breakout by towing the line between virginal and sexy (and piss off religious groups and middle-class suburban parents in the process), then, a couple of years later, when you’re in your late teens or early 20s, enter your “mature” period, i.e. going full-on SEX KITTEN. Suggest a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzybwwf2HoQ#t=02m46s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sweaty, dance-orgy\u003c/a> in your video; get \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rg3sAb8Id8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dirrty\u003c/a>. Get \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/wtf-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blamed for corrupting America’s tweens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah was rarely granted the opportunity to display that kind of innocence—she was branded as “mature” out the gate. From the beginning of her career, the dichotomy between her actual and perceived age was integral to her image. It was right there in the title of that debut album; in the lyrics of that song, where she seductively coos that “age ain’t nothin’ but a number, throwing down ain’t nothin’ but a thang.” In early interviews her exact age was usually treated as a jokey open secret—”\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMwKZE6Ce4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I won’t reveal it, but I’m in my teens\u003c/a>, I’m still in high school”; “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwasUMVq-_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You know I don’t tell my age, it’s a secret\u003c/a>,” she’d coyly respond, with a giggle and a smile, when asked about how old she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901854\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13901854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-2250935_custom-23251aaa6a7c48f3b90d7b76b1b37c7f8c397d8e.jpg\" alt=\"Aaliyah at 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' at the NBC Studios in Burbank, July 2001.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-2250935_custom-23251aaa6a7c48f3b90d7b76b1b37c7f8c397d8e.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-2250935_custom-23251aaa6a7c48f3b90d7b76b1b37c7f8c397d8e-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaliyah at ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ at the NBC Studios in Burbank, July 2001. \u003ccite>(Kevin Winter/Getty Images.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clashing with the acknowledgment of her youth was how Kelly and her management team played down that crucial facet of her age, in the way she swaggered and sauntered in the baggy outfits, dark sunglasses, and swoop of hair draped over one eye, as if she were a neo-noir femme fatale from the ‘hood. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/107416%7C150623/Veronica-Lake/#overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Veronica Lake\u003c/a> was a frequent reference point for critics describing her look and mysterious aura.) The public pretty much accepted and played along with it. \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>‘s review of \u003cem>Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number \u003c/em>described her as an “\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=UAgEAAAAMBAJ&q=aaliyah+age+ain't+nothing+but+a+number&pg=PA64#v=snippet&q=aaliyah%20age%20ain't%20nothing%20but%20a%20number&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urban teenaged siren\u003c/a>“; a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/archives-remembering-aaliyah/2011/08/25/gIQAEjUwdJ_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">review in the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> held her up as a refreshing divergence from other teen stars of the moment, because unlike them, “she doesn’t try to assume emotions she’s never felt or take on material outside her range of experience”—implying that the image of Aaliyah as a fully sexualized woman (not a 15-year-old girl) with experience “go[ing] all the way” had been so strong at the time as to have been normalized and etched in stone. When that’s the public’s first impression of you in this business, there’s ostensibly no going back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so she didn’t—instead, she continued to build upon that persona while leaving Kelly behind. If \u003cem>One in a Million \u003c/em>largely eschews the ickiness that lies at the core of \u003cem>Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number\u003c/em>, it’s because that Svengali wasn’t involved, and Aaliyah was a little bit older. Still, there’s that tension and looming sadness over the thought that the singer was forced to grow up too soon. The evolution from \u003cem>Age\u003c/em>-era Aaliyah to \u003cem>One in a Million\u003c/em>-era Aaliyah wasn’t such a huge leap stylistically; she was still being put forth and received as more experienced than her counterparts, and comparisons to Janet Jackson (who by then had fully transitioned into her uber-sensual \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b_KfAGiglc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>janet.\u003c/em>-era\u003c/a>) began to surface. “\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=4SsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA133#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It’s still illegal to act on the thought\u003c/a>” of Aaliyah’s sexuality, dream hampton wrote in her contemporary review of \u003cem>One in a Million\u003c/em>, while noting that since her debut, the singer had “encourage[d] Lolita fantasies.” (hampton would later go on to executive produce the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1029623250/r-kelly-britney-spears-allen-farrow-russell-simmons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">damning and watershed docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the video for the title track, her love interest is Ginuwine, the R&B singer who was nearly a decade older than her; years later, Timbaland, who was 23 when he first met 16-year-old Aaliyah, would \u003ca href=\"https://www.complex.com/music/2019/01/timbaland-confesses-his-love-for-underage-aaliyah-in-resurfaced-video#cookie-settings\">admit in an interview\u003c/a> that he was “in love” with her, and had to “fight” to control his attraction to her. (By all accounts, their friendship remained platonic and professional.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah’s was a different trapping of fame as a teenaged female pop star—instead of dodging invasive questions about whether or not she was \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/1473676/britney-talks-sex-turns-out-she-really-wasnt-that-innocent/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a virgin\u003c/a> or if she’d \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgImasn50ZU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gotten a boob job\u003c/a>, she dodged questions about an illegal marriage to a much older man while few seemed disturbed by the fact that this was even a question to be asked in the first place. (Most interviewers, in fact, seemed titillated by it.) Neither scenario is a healthy one for a young girl to have to deal with, but at least in the case of Aaliyah, the divide seems stark: to the public, white girlhood was something to be fiercely protected and saved from “corruption”; Black girlhood—Black innocence—cannot even be comprehended. And when Black girlhood isn’t fathomed, it’s not protected, as the many accounts from the young girls and women featured in \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>has made clear.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/rTkba6mXMis'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/rTkba6mXMis'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And yet, there’s a narrative of resilience that can be gleaned from \u003cem>One In A Million\u003c/em>, one that unearths power in the singer’s creative choices over her image and sound post-Kelly. She seemingly took the parts that felt the most like herself—the air of mystery, the laid-back vibes—and reworked them to help pioneer a new way forward in pop and R&B. Her boldness feels less put-upon and more natural, like the musings of the older teenager/budding young adult she was at the time, especially on an earnest track like “4 Page Letter.” I love to listen to it in this way, because I remember what it was like to be 16, 17-years-old, exploring my own personality and approach to relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last years of her life, she had found more nuance to mine at 22-years-old—on “Try Again,” for instance, she expresses hesitancy in starting a new relationship, while coaxing her romantic interest to try a bit harder to earn her love and respect. That word that would follow her until the end—”mature”—still applied here, but this time it applied more to how she played with and expanded upon her vocal lyrical interpretations than it did her sexuality. She was growing up, even though she had been treated like an adult for much of her childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tragedy of Aaliyah is there are so many “What ifs?” that will forever remain unresolved. The upside is that, at least professionally, she managed to persevere in spite of the many people and institutions that failed her personally. Her final albums deserve to be heard in this way, and her legacy deserves to be remembered this way, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+Made+Aaliyah+So+Special+Is+More+Complicated+Than+It+Seems&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13901852/on-the-joys-and-complexities-of-aaliyahs-music-20-years-after-her-death","authors":["byline_arts_13901852"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_8054","arts_2461","arts_924"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13901881","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13901695":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13901695","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13901695","score":null,"sort":[1629758683000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"r-kelly-and-britney-tv-docs-tap-into-consequence-culture-not-cancel-culture","title":"R. Kelly and Britney TV Docs Tap Into 'Consequence Culture,' Not Cancel Culture","publishDate":1629758683,"format":"standard","headTitle":"R. Kelly and Britney TV Docs Tap Into ‘Consequence Culture,’ Not Cancel Culture | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>As the trial of disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901400/opinion-13-years-after-the-last-r-kelly-trial-the-culture-has-changed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unfolds\u003c/a>, it’s tough to imagine reaching this moment without the 2019 Lifetime docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the six-part project seemed to transform public opinion about the singer in an instant, with detailed, harrowing accounts from women who said Kelly spent decades pursuing underage girls for sex and maintaining abusive relationships. Kelly has denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public reaction—including prosecutors asking other potential victims to come forward and his longtime label, RCA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissolving its working relationship\u003c/a> with him—was surprising because journalists had been reporting on similar allegations against the singer since the late 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cultural critic and filmmaker dream hampton, an executive producer on \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, says this project hit the world in a crucial moment: Social media spread word quickly, a younger generation was less tolerant, and viewers were drawn in by the power of seeing a succession of survivors telling their stories directly to the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“American history isn’t history until there’s a movie about it,” hampton says, wryly. “I was packaging \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> for people who probably didn’t read beyond the headlines. … That’s what I thought I could bring to it. There’s something about a visual [of] someone unpacking their story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbjnkvxIoSI\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A new genre for new sensibilities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Turns out, \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>was one on a growing list of documentary projects challenging audiences to reconsider old controversies with fresh eyes, informed by the #MeToo movement’s revelations about harassment, assault and trauma. And those films could bring very tangible results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, FX and Hulu’s film \u003cem>The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears\u003c/em> jump-started public conversation about sexist, abusive media coverage of the pop star and the 2008 conservatorship that gave control of her finances to her father, Jamie Spears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13892800']HBO’s four-part \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/21/969425823/allen-v-farrow-digs-deep-into-a-tale-of-celebrity-power-and-silence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Allen v. Farrow\u003c/em>\u003c/a> gave a detailed presentation of Dylan Farrow’s allegations from 1992 that her father, superstar director Woody Allen, molested her as a child (the filmmaker has denied those allegations). And HBO Max’s film \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/24/861630479/movie-review-on-the-record-with-russell-simmons-accusers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>On the Record\u003c/em>\u003c/a> debuted last year as a chilling account featuring several women who accused rap mogul Russell Simmons of sexual assault in incidents ranging back to the mid-1990s, which he has denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel these documentaries could only have been made now … because the standards of accountability have changed,” says Poh Si Teng, producer of the documentary \u003cem>St. Louis Superman \u003c/em>and an executive at the International Documentary Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The feedback from the web and social media platforms is so much faster, we are holding ourselves more accountable [as a society],” she adds. “In light of all the reckonings from the past year, especially after the murder of George Floyd and the pandemic, more and more filmmakers and participants are going to be bold. They’re going to be ready to speak now. … So these filmmakers can revisit all these old controversies [on] misogyny, conservatorship, child sexual abuse and rape in ways that they could not before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reconsidering media bullying of Britney\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Samantha Stark, director of \u003cem>Framing Britney Spears\u003c/em>, says she originally planned to just reexamine past media coverage of the pop star. After seeing how “incredibly misogynistic” it all was—demonstrated by a clip in the film of an interviewer asking Spears about her breasts—Stark and her team realized many of the journalists who had reported these stories were male.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just had this idea: What if we try to find women to interview instead?” she says. “We got a completely different picture of her: a woman who was business-savvy, who even as a teenager contributed creatively to her work, who had the stamina of an Olympic athlete and knew what she was doing … someone with agency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the filmmakers discovered valid concerns about the fairness of Spears’ conservatorship, originally criticized by followers of the “Free Britney” movement. Suddenly, a fan uprising that some treated like a punchline was inspiring renewed public scrutiny. Most recently, Spears’ father has announced his intention to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">step down from the conservatorship\u003c/a>, but with no definitive timetable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wRN5muenY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stark says she thought about \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> while making her film, because both projects centered on contentions that people found tough to believe because the alleged abuse was happening in plain sight. And both projects also pointed out the complicity of the general public, which often laughed at comedians’ jokes about Spears’ mental health or Kelly’s proclivities without considering the darker truths behind the punchlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m the same age as Britney, so when I was watching so much of the footage, I was reliving my [teenage years], when it was OK to bully people and shame them for being different,” says Stark, age 39. “It did feel like we weren’t ready for all these documentaries until now. We do, I think, listen to what women have to say more now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13899317']That’s an idea which resonates for Amy Ziering, co-director of both \u003cem>Allen v. Farrow\u003c/em> and \u003cem>On the Record\u003c/em> with longtime filmmaking partner Kirby Dick. Ziering says, when she was pitching potential distributors on their 2012 documentary about sexual assault in the military, \u003cem>The Invisible War\u003c/em>, she was told no one wanted to hear women’s stories—especially stories of women raped in the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003cem>Allen v. Farrow\u003c/em> has seven Emmy nominations and \u003cem>On the Record\u003c/em> was part of HBO Max’s opening slate of original programs when the streaming platform launched in May 2020. These days, Ziering says, such films can perform a sort of pop culture jiu-jitsu—leveraging the celebrity that some stars have used to shield themselves to educate viewers, instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would anyone really care to watch a documentary about conservatorship … no, you watched because it was about Britney Spears,” she adds, saying \u003cem>Allen V. Farrow\u003c/em> dropped important information about how the court system treats custody cases and how allegations of incest are investigated. “What is lovely about these films is we get to capitalize on the culture of celebrity for good—not for marketing … but to actually enlighten people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not all films have the same impact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some critics say these films can be one-sided; Kelly, Allen and Simmons all declined requests to be interviewed for these projects and have denied the crimes they are accused of within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not every project can have the impact filmmakers anticipate. Drew Dixon, a former record company executive whose accounts of being raped by Russell Simmons and sexually harassed by well-known producer/executive L.A. Reid form the center of \u003cem>On the Record\u003c/em>, says the film’s impact was blunted when media star Oprah Winfrey \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/movies/oprah-winfrey-russell-simmons-movie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulled out as an executive producer \u003c/a>in early 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost worse than if she’d never been involved … [it] left this shadow of confusion and doubt around the film,” says Dixon. “A lot of the powerful voices in the Black community that could have drawn attention to the discussion about Black women and our unique vulnerability to sexual violence didn’t happen. And frankly, I feel more isolated now than I did before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film, which also explores how Black women’s stories of harassment and assault may have been left out of the #MeToo movement, also faced criticism from some who viewed it as an attack on successful Black men. Both Dixon and \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>‘s dream hampton noted that the subjects of their films still retain support among some Black people, wary of a white-dominated media system going after stars once considered admirable examples of Black achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13875370']Still, Dixon says she has no regrets about participating in the film. “A proliferation of documentaries that center survivors and move the spotlight away from the famous, accused, powerful people … that’s really critically important,” she adds.” That’s how we really humanize the experience and the pain and the real cost of sexual violence for the people who have experienced it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poh Si Teng of the International Documentary Association expects to see many more of these types of films produced, with a tangible impact on the public discourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not cancel culture,” she says, of the way some celebrities have seen their work sidelined after serious allegations. “It’s consequence culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=R.+Kelly+And+Britney+TV+Docs+Tap+Into+%27Consequence+Culture%2C%27+Not+Cancel+Culture&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'Framing Britney Spears' and 'Surviving R. Kelly' are among documentary projects challenging us to reconsider old controversies.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007919,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1500},"headData":{"title":"R. Kelly and Britney TV Docs Tap Into 'Consequence Culture,' Not Cancel Culture | KQED","description":"'Framing Britney Spears' and 'Surviving R. 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Kelly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901400/opinion-13-years-after-the-last-r-kelly-trial-the-culture-has-changed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unfolds\u003c/a>, it’s tough to imagine reaching this moment without the 2019 Lifetime docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the six-part project seemed to transform public opinion about the singer in an instant, with detailed, harrowing accounts from women who said Kelly spent decades pursuing underage girls for sex and maintaining abusive relationships. Kelly has denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public reaction—including prosecutors asking other potential victims to come forward and his longtime label, RCA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissolving its working relationship\u003c/a> with him—was surprising because journalists had been reporting on similar allegations against the singer since the late 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cultural critic and filmmaker dream hampton, an executive producer on \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, says this project hit the world in a crucial moment: Social media spread word quickly, a younger generation was less tolerant, and viewers were drawn in by the power of seeing a succession of survivors telling their stories directly to the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“American history isn’t history until there’s a movie about it,” hampton says, wryly. “I was packaging \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> for people who probably didn’t read beyond the headlines. … That’s what I thought I could bring to it. There’s something about a visual [of] someone unpacking their story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vbjnkvxIoSI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vbjnkvxIoSI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>A new genre for new sensibilities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Turns out, \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>was one on a growing list of documentary projects challenging audiences to reconsider old controversies with fresh eyes, informed by the #MeToo movement’s revelations about harassment, assault and trauma. And those films could bring very tangible results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, FX and Hulu’s film \u003cem>The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears\u003c/em> jump-started public conversation about sexist, abusive media coverage of the pop star and the 2008 conservatorship that gave control of her finances to her father, Jamie Spears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13892800","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>HBO’s four-part \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/21/969425823/allen-v-farrow-digs-deep-into-a-tale-of-celebrity-power-and-silence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Allen v. Farrow\u003c/em>\u003c/a> gave a detailed presentation of Dylan Farrow’s allegations from 1992 that her father, superstar director Woody Allen, molested her as a child (the filmmaker has denied those allegations). And HBO Max’s film \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/24/861630479/movie-review-on-the-record-with-russell-simmons-accusers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>On the Record\u003c/em>\u003c/a> debuted last year as a chilling account featuring several women who accused rap mogul Russell Simmons of sexual assault in incidents ranging back to the mid-1990s, which he has denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel these documentaries could only have been made now … because the standards of accountability have changed,” says Poh Si Teng, producer of the documentary \u003cem>St. Louis Superman \u003c/em>and an executive at the International Documentary Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The feedback from the web and social media platforms is so much faster, we are holding ourselves more accountable [as a society],” she adds. “In light of all the reckonings from the past year, especially after the murder of George Floyd and the pandemic, more and more filmmakers and participants are going to be bold. They’re going to be ready to speak now. … So these filmmakers can revisit all these old controversies [on] misogyny, conservatorship, child sexual abuse and rape in ways that they could not before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reconsidering media bullying of Britney\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Samantha Stark, director of \u003cem>Framing Britney Spears\u003c/em>, says she originally planned to just reexamine past media coverage of the pop star. After seeing how “incredibly misogynistic” it all was—demonstrated by a clip in the film of an interviewer asking Spears about her breasts—Stark and her team realized many of the journalists who had reported these stories were male.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just had this idea: What if we try to find women to interview instead?” she says. “We got a completely different picture of her: a woman who was business-savvy, who even as a teenager contributed creatively to her work, who had the stamina of an Olympic athlete and knew what she was doing … someone with agency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the filmmakers discovered valid concerns about the fairness of Spears’ conservatorship, originally criticized by followers of the “Free Britney” movement. Suddenly, a fan uprising that some treated like a punchline was inspiring renewed public scrutiny. Most recently, Spears’ father has announced his intention to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">step down from the conservatorship\u003c/a>, but with no definitive timetable.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/n1wRN5muenY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/n1wRN5muenY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Stark says she thought about \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> while making her film, because both projects centered on contentions that people found tough to believe because the alleged abuse was happening in plain sight. And both projects also pointed out the complicity of the general public, which often laughed at comedians’ jokes about Spears’ mental health or Kelly’s proclivities without considering the darker truths behind the punchlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m the same age as Britney, so when I was watching so much of the footage, I was reliving my [teenage years], when it was OK to bully people and shame them for being different,” says Stark, age 39. “It did feel like we weren’t ready for all these documentaries until now. We do, I think, listen to what women have to say more now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13899317","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s an idea which resonates for Amy Ziering, co-director of both \u003cem>Allen v. Farrow\u003c/em> and \u003cem>On the Record\u003c/em> with longtime filmmaking partner Kirby Dick. Ziering says, when she was pitching potential distributors on their 2012 documentary about sexual assault in the military, \u003cem>The Invisible War\u003c/em>, she was told no one wanted to hear women’s stories—especially stories of women raped in the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003cem>Allen v. Farrow\u003c/em> has seven Emmy nominations and \u003cem>On the Record\u003c/em> was part of HBO Max’s opening slate of original programs when the streaming platform launched in May 2020. These days, Ziering says, such films can perform a sort of pop culture jiu-jitsu—leveraging the celebrity that some stars have used to shield themselves to educate viewers, instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Would anyone really care to watch a documentary about conservatorship … no, you watched because it was about Britney Spears,” she adds, saying \u003cem>Allen V. Farrow\u003c/em> dropped important information about how the court system treats custody cases and how allegations of incest are investigated. “What is lovely about these films is we get to capitalize on the culture of celebrity for good—not for marketing … but to actually enlighten people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not all films have the same impact\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some critics say these films can be one-sided; Kelly, Allen and Simmons all declined requests to be interviewed for these projects and have denied the crimes they are accused of within them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not every project can have the impact filmmakers anticipate. Drew Dixon, a former record company executive whose accounts of being raped by Russell Simmons and sexually harassed by well-known producer/executive L.A. Reid form the center of \u003cem>On the Record\u003c/em>, says the film’s impact was blunted when media star Oprah Winfrey \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/movies/oprah-winfrey-russell-simmons-movie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulled out as an executive producer \u003c/a>in early 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost worse than if she’d never been involved … [it] left this shadow of confusion and doubt around the film,” says Dixon. “A lot of the powerful voices in the Black community that could have drawn attention to the discussion about Black women and our unique vulnerability to sexual violence didn’t happen. And frankly, I feel more isolated now than I did before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film, which also explores how Black women’s stories of harassment and assault may have been left out of the #MeToo movement, also faced criticism from some who viewed it as an attack on successful Black men. Both Dixon and \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>‘s dream hampton noted that the subjects of their films still retain support among some Black people, wary of a white-dominated media system going after stars once considered admirable examples of Black achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13875370","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, Dixon says she has no regrets about participating in the film. “A proliferation of documentaries that center survivors and move the spotlight away from the famous, accused, powerful people … that’s really critically important,” she adds.” That’s how we really humanize the experience and the pain and the real cost of sexual violence for the people who have experienced it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poh Si Teng of the International Documentary Association expects to see many more of these types of films produced, with a tangible impact on the public discourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not cancel culture,” she says, of the way some celebrities have seen their work sidelined after serious allegations. “It’s consequence culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=R.+Kelly+And+Britney+TV+Docs+Tap+Into+%27Consequence+Culture%2C%27+Not+Cancel+Culture&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13901695/r-kelly-and-britney-tv-docs-tap-into-consequence-culture-not-cancel-culture","authors":["byline_arts_13901695"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_13475","arts_10387","arts_2767","arts_831","arts_2461","arts_6443","arts_5050"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13901699","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13901400":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13901400","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13901400","score":null,"sort":[1629209355000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"opinion-13-years-after-the-last-r-kelly-trial-the-culture-has-changed","title":"13 Years After the Last R. Kelly Trial, the Culture Has Changed","publishDate":1629209355,"format":"standard","headTitle":"13 Years After the Last R. Kelly Trial, the Culture Has Changed | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This essay includes allegations of sexual assault and physical abuse.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, testimony is scheduled to begin in a Brooklyn courthouse in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1022231076/r-kelly-abuse-charges-trial-aaliyah-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first of two federal trials\u003c/a> against singer, songwriter and producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a>. Across two sets of indictments in New York and Illinois, the one-time R&B king is accused of abusing 11 girls and women over more than two decades; making child pornography; making hush-money payments to silence alleged victims; and building a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/r-kelly-charged-racketeering-including-predicate-acts-coercing-and-transporting-minor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criminal enterprise\u003c/a> specifically to “prey upon young women and teenagers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_104682']Additionally, the New York prosecutors want to admit what they say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019972507/r-kelly-prosecutors-evidence-more-crimes-bribery-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evidence\u003c/a> that Kelly sexually and physically abused girls and women as far back as 1991, sexually abused a boy, and committed bribery. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and has consistently denied accusations that he abused anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, when I’ve told people that I’m covering the New York trial, they have been confused. Allegations have swirled around Kelly for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 25 years now\u003c/a>, and so they ask me: Wasn’t he arrested years ago? Yes: he was arrested most recently in July 2019, and he’s remained in custody for the two years since, awaiting trial. But they may also be thinking of his first big trial in 2008—and those accusations, and that trial, figure into some of the current charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, in his hometown of Chicago, Kelly was indicted on numerous child pornography charges after a notorious sex tape circulated: it purportedly showed the singer having sex with and urinating on a female whom prosecutors said was about 14 years old at the time. A full six years later, Kelly went to trial and was acquitted of all charges. The young woman who was thought to be the girl on the tape and her parents refused to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That 2008 trial figures heavily into some of the current Illinois charges, which include accusations that Kelly and members of his circle intimidated the girl and her father, and persuaded them to lie to both police and a grand jury. Their subsequent refusal to testify, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-06-14-0806140185-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14 other witnesses\u003c/a> identifying the girl, seems to have swayed many jurors to acquit Kelly. (That same woman, now in her thirties, said in 2019 that she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/arts/music/r-kelly-sexual-assault-tape.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cooperating\u003c/a> with federal investigators.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, it seemed like much of the pop culture conversation was primarily about Kelly and his alleged predilections and behaviors, and not so much about anyone who may have been hurt. In certain ways, the culture has shifted since Kelly last stood on trial. Many fans today seem far less willing to overlook what they perceive as problematic content or context in an artist’s work—whether it’s related to racism, sexism, unfair power dynamics or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900624/the-music-industry-is-holding-dababy-accountable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homophobia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109568']The intervening 13 years have also seen dogged, tenacious reporting on Kelly, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729310654/in-soulless-a-journalist-takes-on-r-kelly-and-the-business-that-made-him-a-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>a book by former \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/em> journalist and music critic \u003ca href=\"http://jimdero.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim DeRogatis\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/20/695083431/surviving-r-kelly-producer-dream-hampton-takes-on-ecosystem-that-s-supported-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> a six-part docuseries helmed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamhampton.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dream hampton\u003c/a> that aired on Lifetime. Both were released in 2019, in the midst of the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days of #MeToo, many prominent accusers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/798222176/the-harvey-weinstein-trial-a-brief-timeline-of-how-we-got-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">white women\u003c/a>. But the Kelly-related projects explicitly centered the mostly Black girls and women who allegedly were harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As those projects were being developed, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/06/608802024/-muterkelly-gathers-momentum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MuteRKelly\u003c/a> movement—founded by two Black women, Kenyette Barnes and Oronike Odeleye—gathered steam in an effort to pressure large entertainment companies to sever their ties with Kelly. In writing about #MuteRKelly, \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> columnist Christine Emba \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/black-women-deserve-better-will-2019-be-the-year-of-change/2019/01/09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cited\u003c/a> a 1962 speech by Malcolm X: “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/jerhonda-pace-r-kelly-me-too-tarana-burke#.vc8K1olGo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview \u003c/a>Barnes gave to DeRogatis for BuzzFeed News in March 2018, she asserted: “We don’t give a damn about Black girls. If R. Kelly was white, every civil rights leader would be marching in every street in this country. If the girls were white, every feminist group would be coming out enraged in droves of pussy hats to march against him. The bottom line is that R. Kelly and his victims are the perfect storm of people we don’t care about. We protect problematic Black men in the Black community, and we discard Black girls in all communities. Essentially, he is the greatest example of a predator in that he went after the most vulnerable that no one cares about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, though, Kelly’s management called #MuteRKelly “a public lynching,” noting that “since America was born, Black men and women have been lynched for having sex or for being accused of it.” At the time, #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/05/01/607448801/-metoo-founder-tarana-burke-responds-to-r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told me\u003c/a>, “The reality of lynching in America is so, so painful and so real. This is not a public lynching. This is a call for public accountability.” (Moreover, in many cases Kelly’s accusers have said that they were underage girls, not women, when they began sexual contact with him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_108417']“We have seen 24 years of allegations leveled against R. Kelly, and he has gone unscathed,” Burke continued in that 2018 conversation. “What we are looking for, in our community and out, is some accountability from the corporations that support this person who has a 24-year history of sexual violence perpetrated against Black and brown girls around the country.” (At the end of that year, Burke was one of the victims of a gun threat called into an advance screening of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> in New York; Kelly’s former manager, Donnell Russell, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14/902514816/r-kellys-former-manager-charged-with-gun-threat-to-surviving-r-kelly-screening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">charged\u003c/a> with making that threat. His case is ongoing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To a large extent, #MuteRKelly came to fruition, albeit years after Kelly’s commercial and creative peak, and sometimes in highly qualified ways. In May 2018, for example, Spotify \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/05/10/610051559/starting-with-r-kelly-spotify-pulls-artists-from-playlists-for-hateful-conduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped\u003c/a> Kelly from its playlists, the way that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2017/05/secret-hit-making-power-spotify-playlist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many listeners\u003c/a> use the service, rather than seeking out particular artists or songs. If you actively search for Kelly’s music on Spotify, however, it’s still there, as are the songs he wrote and/or produced for other artists, including Celine Dion, Janet Jackson, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, Ciara, Missy Elliott and another artist some listeners consider problematic: Michael Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been one notable exception: Much of the music by Kelly’s protégée Aaliyah—whom he married in 1994, when she was 15 years old and he was 27—is not on Spotify or other streaming services at all. But in an interesting bit of timing, Barry Hankerson, Aaliyah’s uncle and the former manager of both artists, \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> just days before the Kelly trial began that he is making her recording catalog available to streaming services. The New York prosecutors refer to Aaliyah in their indictment as “Jane Doe #1,” for whom they say Kelly and associates bribed a public official to create a fake ID before their marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jan. 2019, Kelly’s longtime record label RCA and its parent company, Sony Music Entertainment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped him\u003c/a> from their artist roster after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685912752/the-muterkelly-movement-takes-its-protest-to-the-steps-of-his-record-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pressure mounted\u003c/a> from #MuteRKelly. But that decision, apparently made in the wake of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> airing, came 16 years after his last big chart hit, 2003’s “Ignition (Remix).” Furthermore, RCA and Sony never publicly acknowledged having dropped Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before the most recent wave of accusations and reporting, Black and brown voices were calling for a reckoning. Nearly two decades before \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly,\u003c/em> longtime \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times \u003c/em>columnist Mary Mitchell wrote many pieces asking why the alleged victims were being dismissed or ignored, and why so many Chicagoans were so eager to \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/2002/8/8/22613656/r-kelly-2002-trial-fans-rally-cook-county-chicago-sun-times-mary-mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">side with Kelly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many fans adored him. Quite a few fellow artists brushed aside the allegations and continued to work with him. And comedians like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafRE74JGZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Chappelle\u003c/a> joked about the alleged Kelly tape and its contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the debut airing of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly,\u003c/em> then-\u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>culture editor (and now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/912788259/aisha-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR colleague\u003c/a>) Aisha Harris wrote about how the allegations against Kelly became pop-culture\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/arts/television/surviving-r-kelly-dave-chappelle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> joke fodder\u003c/a>: “For years,” she wrote, “those who laughed at Kelly were able to ignore the charges against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109631']In retrospect, that particular spin cycle is reminiscent of what happened to Britney Spears \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/1009859700/opinion-britney-is-the-latest-victim-of-the-industry-machine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the same era\u003c/a>. (She was one of R. Kelly’s labelmates at Jive and then RCA, and Kelly wrote and produced her song “Outrageous,” released in 2004.) Spears’ public struggles, which became little more than a joke and grist for the 24/7 grind of gossip blogs and cable channels vying for eyeballs, happened nearly simultaneously with Kelly’s Chicago trial. The girl at the center of that trial, like Spears, largely became a punchline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the women who have accused Kelly of sexual, physical and/or psychological abuse say that when they met him, they, too, like that girl allegedly featured on the infamous tape, were teenagers attempting to become professional musicians, and hoped that the king of R&B would help them chart their own musical careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the music industry, this is a familiar story. Young men strive to make it in the tough, unforgiving music industry; if they succeed, it’s often at least partly through the help of older male mentors. Young women striving to make it in the tough, unforgiving music industry might also seek the help of older male mentors; after all, there are still \u003ca href=\"https://annenberg.usc.edu/news/research-and-impact/annenberg-inclusion-initiatives-annual-report-popular-music-reveals-little\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">far more\u003c/a> successful men in the business than women. But sometimes, rather than being given guidance or opportunity, they instead are cultivated as sexual conquests—and those dreams fade away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Opinion%3A+13+Years+After+The+Last+R.+Kelly+Trial%2C+The+Culture+Has+Changed&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The first federal trial against disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly is finally underway, after over 25 years of abuse allegations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007947,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1699},"headData":{"title":"13 Years After the Last R. Kelly Trial, the Culture Has Changed | KQED","description":"The first federal trial against disgraced R&B superstar R. 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Kelly Trial, the Culture Has Changed","datePublished":"2021-08-17T14:09:15.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:19:07.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Commentary","sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Nuccio DiNuzzo","nprByline":"Anastasia Tsioulcas","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1027268192","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1027268192&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/15/1027268192/r-kelly-sexual-abuse-trial-black-women-girls-metoo?ft=nprml&f=1027268192","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sun, 15 Aug 2021 05:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 15 Aug 2021 05:00:54 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sun, 15 Aug 2021 05:00:54 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13901400/opinion-13-years-after-the-last-r-kelly-trial-the-culture-has-changed","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This essay includes allegations of sexual assault and physical abuse.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, testimony is scheduled to begin in a Brooklyn courthouse in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1022231076/r-kelly-abuse-charges-trial-aaliyah-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first of two federal trials\u003c/a> against singer, songwriter and producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a>. Across two sets of indictments in New York and Illinois, the one-time R&B king is accused of abusing 11 girls and women over more than two decades; making child pornography; making hush-money payments to silence alleged victims; and building a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/r-kelly-charged-racketeering-including-predicate-acts-coercing-and-transporting-minor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criminal enterprise\u003c/a> specifically to “prey upon young women and teenagers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_104682","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Additionally, the New York prosecutors want to admit what they say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019972507/r-kelly-prosecutors-evidence-more-crimes-bribery-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evidence\u003c/a> that Kelly sexually and physically abused girls and women as far back as 1991, sexually abused a boy, and committed bribery. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and has consistently denied accusations that he abused anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, when I’ve told people that I’m covering the New York trial, they have been confused. Allegations have swirled around Kelly for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 25 years now\u003c/a>, and so they ask me: Wasn’t he arrested years ago? Yes: he was arrested most recently in July 2019, and he’s remained in custody for the two years since, awaiting trial. But they may also be thinking of his first big trial in 2008—and those accusations, and that trial, figure into some of the current charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, in his hometown of Chicago, Kelly was indicted on numerous child pornography charges after a notorious sex tape circulated: it purportedly showed the singer having sex with and urinating on a female whom prosecutors said was about 14 years old at the time. A full six years later, Kelly went to trial and was acquitted of all charges. The young woman who was thought to be the girl on the tape and her parents refused to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That 2008 trial figures heavily into some of the current Illinois charges, which include accusations that Kelly and members of his circle intimidated the girl and her father, and persuaded them to lie to both police and a grand jury. Their subsequent refusal to testify, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-06-14-0806140185-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14 other witnesses\u003c/a> identifying the girl, seems to have swayed many jurors to acquit Kelly. (That same woman, now in her thirties, said in 2019 that she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/arts/music/r-kelly-sexual-assault-tape.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cooperating\u003c/a> with federal investigators.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, it seemed like much of the pop culture conversation was primarily about Kelly and his alleged predilections and behaviors, and not so much about anyone who may have been hurt. In certain ways, the culture has shifted since Kelly last stood on trial. Many fans today seem far less willing to overlook what they perceive as problematic content or context in an artist’s work—whether it’s related to racism, sexism, unfair power dynamics or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900624/the-music-industry-is-holding-dababy-accountable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homophobia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_109568","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The intervening 13 years have also seen dogged, tenacious reporting on Kelly, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729310654/in-soulless-a-journalist-takes-on-r-kelly-and-the-business-that-made-him-a-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>a book by former \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/em> journalist and music critic \u003ca href=\"http://jimdero.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim DeRogatis\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/20/695083431/surviving-r-kelly-producer-dream-hampton-takes-on-ecosystem-that-s-supported-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> a six-part docuseries helmed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamhampton.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dream hampton\u003c/a> that aired on Lifetime. Both were released in 2019, in the midst of the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days of #MeToo, many prominent accusers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/798222176/the-harvey-weinstein-trial-a-brief-timeline-of-how-we-got-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">white women\u003c/a>. But the Kelly-related projects explicitly centered the mostly Black girls and women who allegedly were harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As those projects were being developed, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/06/608802024/-muterkelly-gathers-momentum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MuteRKelly\u003c/a> movement—founded by two Black women, Kenyette Barnes and Oronike Odeleye—gathered steam in an effort to pressure large entertainment companies to sever their ties with Kelly. In writing about #MuteRKelly, \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> columnist Christine Emba \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/black-women-deserve-better-will-2019-be-the-year-of-change/2019/01/09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cited\u003c/a> a 1962 speech by Malcolm X: “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/jerhonda-pace-r-kelly-me-too-tarana-burke#.vc8K1olGo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview \u003c/a>Barnes gave to DeRogatis for BuzzFeed News in March 2018, she asserted: “We don’t give a damn about Black girls. If R. Kelly was white, every civil rights leader would be marching in every street in this country. If the girls were white, every feminist group would be coming out enraged in droves of pussy hats to march against him. The bottom line is that R. Kelly and his victims are the perfect storm of people we don’t care about. We protect problematic Black men in the Black community, and we discard Black girls in all communities. Essentially, he is the greatest example of a predator in that he went after the most vulnerable that no one cares about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, though, Kelly’s management called #MuteRKelly “a public lynching,” noting that “since America was born, Black men and women have been lynched for having sex or for being accused of it.” At the time, #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/05/01/607448801/-metoo-founder-tarana-burke-responds-to-r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told me\u003c/a>, “The reality of lynching in America is so, so painful and so real. This is not a public lynching. This is a call for public accountability.” (Moreover, in many cases Kelly’s accusers have said that they were underage girls, not women, when they began sexual contact with him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_108417","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We have seen 24 years of allegations leveled against R. Kelly, and he has gone unscathed,” Burke continued in that 2018 conversation. “What we are looking for, in our community and out, is some accountability from the corporations that support this person who has a 24-year history of sexual violence perpetrated against Black and brown girls around the country.” (At the end of that year, Burke was one of the victims of a gun threat called into an advance screening of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> in New York; Kelly’s former manager, Donnell Russell, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14/902514816/r-kellys-former-manager-charged-with-gun-threat-to-surviving-r-kelly-screening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">charged\u003c/a> with making that threat. His case is ongoing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To a large extent, #MuteRKelly came to fruition, albeit years after Kelly’s commercial and creative peak, and sometimes in highly qualified ways. In May 2018, for example, Spotify \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/05/10/610051559/starting-with-r-kelly-spotify-pulls-artists-from-playlists-for-hateful-conduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped\u003c/a> Kelly from its playlists, the way that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2017/05/secret-hit-making-power-spotify-playlist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many listeners\u003c/a> use the service, rather than seeking out particular artists or songs. If you actively search for Kelly’s music on Spotify, however, it’s still there, as are the songs he wrote and/or produced for other artists, including Celine Dion, Janet Jackson, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, Ciara, Missy Elliott and another artist some listeners consider problematic: Michael Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been one notable exception: Much of the music by Kelly’s protégée Aaliyah—whom he married in 1994, when she was 15 years old and he was 27—is not on Spotify or other streaming services at all. But in an interesting bit of timing, Barry Hankerson, Aaliyah’s uncle and the former manager of both artists, \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> just days before the Kelly trial began that he is making her recording catalog available to streaming services. The New York prosecutors refer to Aaliyah in their indictment as “Jane Doe #1,” for whom they say Kelly and associates bribed a public official to create a fake ID before their marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jan. 2019, Kelly’s longtime record label RCA and its parent company, Sony Music Entertainment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped him\u003c/a> from their artist roster after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685912752/the-muterkelly-movement-takes-its-protest-to-the-steps-of-his-record-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pressure mounted\u003c/a> from #MuteRKelly. But that decision, apparently made in the wake of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em> airing, came 16 years after his last big chart hit, 2003’s “Ignition (Remix).” Furthermore, RCA and Sony never publicly acknowledged having dropped Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before the most recent wave of accusations and reporting, Black and brown voices were calling for a reckoning. Nearly two decades before \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly,\u003c/em> longtime \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times \u003c/em>columnist Mary Mitchell wrote many pieces asking why the alleged victims were being dismissed or ignored, and why so many Chicagoans were so eager to \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/2002/8/8/22613656/r-kelly-2002-trial-fans-rally-cook-county-chicago-sun-times-mary-mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">side with Kelly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many fans adored him. Quite a few fellow artists brushed aside the allegations and continued to work with him. And comedians like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafRE74JGZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Chappelle\u003c/a> joked about the alleged Kelly tape and its contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the debut airing of \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly,\u003c/em> then-\u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>culture editor (and now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/912788259/aisha-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR colleague\u003c/a>) Aisha Harris wrote about how the allegations against Kelly became pop-culture\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/arts/television/surviving-r-kelly-dave-chappelle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> joke fodder\u003c/a>: “For years,” she wrote, “those who laughed at Kelly were able to ignore the charges against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_109631","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In retrospect, that particular spin cycle is reminiscent of what happened to Britney Spears \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/1009859700/opinion-britney-is-the-latest-victim-of-the-industry-machine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the same era\u003c/a>. (She was one of R. Kelly’s labelmates at Jive and then RCA, and Kelly wrote and produced her song “Outrageous,” released in 2004.) Spears’ public struggles, which became little more than a joke and grist for the 24/7 grind of gossip blogs and cable channels vying for eyeballs, happened nearly simultaneously with Kelly’s Chicago trial. The girl at the center of that trial, like Spears, largely became a punchline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the women who have accused Kelly of sexual, physical and/or psychological abuse say that when they met him, they, too, like that girl allegedly featured on the infamous tape, were teenagers attempting to become professional musicians, and hoped that the king of R&B would help them chart their own musical careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the music industry, this is a familiar story. Young men strive to make it in the tough, unforgiving music industry; if they succeed, it’s often at least partly through the help of older male mentors. Young women striving to make it in the tough, unforgiving music industry might also seek the help of older male mentors; after all, there are still \u003ca href=\"https://annenberg.usc.edu/news/research-and-impact/annenberg-inclusion-initiatives-annual-report-popular-music-reveals-little\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">far more\u003c/a> successful men in the business than women. But sometimes, rather than being given guidance or opportunity, they instead are cultivated as sexual conquests—and those dreams fade away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Opinion%3A+13+Years+After+The+Last+R.+Kelly+Trial%2C+The+Culture+Has+Changed&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13901400/opinion-13-years-after-the-last-r-kelly-trial-the-culture-has-changed","authors":["byline_arts_13901400"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_69","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_14452","arts_2767","arts_1962","arts_2461","arts_924","arts_6443"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13901405","label":"source_arts_13901400"},"arts_13900892":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13900892","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13900892","score":null,"sort":[1628532889000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jury-selection-starts-in-r-kelly-sex-trafficking-case","title":"Jury Selection Starts in R. Kelly Sex Trafficking Case","publishDate":1628532889,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Jury Selection Starts in R. Kelly Sex Trafficking Case | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>After several delays, the first phase of the sex trafficking trial of R&B hitmaker R. Kelly started Monday with jury selection in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lingering health threats caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a shakeup of Kelly’s defense team pushed the trial into the summer, nearly two years after he was charged with abusing women and girls for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly began questioning potential jurors about whether they can keep an open mind about Kelly two years after he was charged with abusing women and girls for nearly two decades. She reminded them the defendant was presumed innocent and that they should not be influenced by anything they’ve previously heard about the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proceeding was being conducted amid coronavirus pandemic precautions restricting the press and the public to overflow courtrooms with video feeds. Much of the time, Kelly and potential jurors weren’t clearly visible on the feeds and the audio was often faint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More screening was set for Tuesday. It was unclear how long the process will take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, 54, has been locked up since he was indicted, mostly housed in a federal jail in Chicago. He was moved last month to the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to face trial in a case that’s further diminished his superstar status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109568']Last week, defense attorney Deveraux Cannick told a judge that Kelly needs to be measured for new clothing because he’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-entertainment-music-health-arts-and-entertainment-4dc99d75b79a8739100f6cb45769aa3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gained so much weight\u003c/a> in jail. And he asked that court transcripts be provided at no cost because Kelly has been unable to work for two years, saying: “His funds are depleted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of leading an enterprise of managers, bodyguards and other employees who helped him recruit women and girls for sex. Federal prosecutors say the group selected victims at concerts and other venues and arranged for them to travel to see Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense lawyers have said Kelly’s alleged victims were groupies who turned up at his shows and made it known they “were dying to be with him.” They only started accusing him of abuse years later when public sentiment shifted in the #MeToo era, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial had been expected to start earlier in the year. But opening statements were moved to Aug. 18 after Kelly fired his original defense team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors are expected to hear testimony from several of his accusers. A judge has ruled that the women will only be referred to by their first names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also are expected to offer evidence that Kelly schemed with others to pay for a fake ID for Aaliyah, a singer on the rise at 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah is identified as “Jane Doe #1” in court papers because she was still a minor when Kelly began a sexual relationship with her and believed she had become pregnant, the papers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109968']“As a result, in an effort to shield himself from criminal charges related to his illegal sexual relationship with Jane Doe #1, Kelly arranged to secretly marry her to prevent her from being compelled to testify against him in the future,” the papers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah, whose full name was Aaliyah Dana Haughton, worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/86198/the-most-creepily-problematic-sexy-songs-of-the-1990s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number.\u003c/a>” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is only part of the legal peril facing the singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly. He also has pleaded not guilty to sex-related charges in Illinois and Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly won multiple Grammys for “I Believe I Can Fly,” a 1996 song that became an inspirational anthem played at school graduations, weddings, advertisements and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade later, he began releasing what eventually became 22 musical chapters of “Trapped in the Closet,” a drama that spins a tale of sexual deceit and became a cult classic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kelly has been trailed for decades by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/109631/i-want-justice-r-kelly-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-2-more-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaints\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/109968/on-cbs-an-indicted-r-kelly-literally-screams-his-innocence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegations\u003c/a> about his sexual behavior, including a 2002 child pornography case in Chicago. He was acquitted in that case in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scrutiny intensified again amid the #MeToo movement in recent years, with multiple women going public with accusations against the singer. The pressure intensified with the release of the Lifetime documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108417/lady-gaga-needs-to-talk-about-r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/a>\u003c/em> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal charges soon followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AP\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Potential jurors are being questioned about whether they can keep an open mind, two and half years after 'Surviving R. Kelly.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007999,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":776},"headData":{"title":"Jury Selection Starts in R. Kelly Sex Trafficking Case | KQED","description":"Potential jurors are being questioned about whether they can keep an open mind, two and half years after 'Surviving R. Kelly.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Jury Selection Starts in R. Kelly Sex Trafficking Case","datePublished":"2021-08-09T18:14:49.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:19:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Tom Hays","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13900892/jury-selection-starts-in-r-kelly-sex-trafficking-case","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After several delays, the first phase of the sex trafficking trial of R&B hitmaker R. Kelly started Monday with jury selection in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lingering health threats caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a shakeup of Kelly’s defense team pushed the trial into the summer, nearly two years after he was charged with abusing women and girls for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly began questioning potential jurors about whether they can keep an open mind about Kelly two years after he was charged with abusing women and girls for nearly two decades. She reminded them the defendant was presumed innocent and that they should not be influenced by anything they’ve previously heard about the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proceeding was being conducted amid coronavirus pandemic precautions restricting the press and the public to overflow courtrooms with video feeds. Much of the time, Kelly and potential jurors weren’t clearly visible on the feeds and the audio was often faint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More screening was set for Tuesday. It was unclear how long the process will take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, 54, has been locked up since he was indicted, mostly housed in a federal jail in Chicago. He was moved last month to the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to face trial in a case that’s further diminished his superstar status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_109568","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last week, defense attorney Deveraux Cannick told a judge that Kelly needs to be measured for new clothing because he’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-entertainment-music-health-arts-and-entertainment-4dc99d75b79a8739100f6cb45769aa3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gained so much weight\u003c/a> in jail. And he asked that court transcripts be provided at no cost because Kelly has been unable to work for two years, saying: “His funds are depleted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of leading an enterprise of managers, bodyguards and other employees who helped him recruit women and girls for sex. Federal prosecutors say the group selected victims at concerts and other venues and arranged for them to travel to see Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense lawyers have said Kelly’s alleged victims were groupies who turned up at his shows and made it known they “were dying to be with him.” They only started accusing him of abuse years later when public sentiment shifted in the #MeToo era, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial had been expected to start earlier in the year. But opening statements were moved to Aug. 18 after Kelly fired his original defense team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors are expected to hear testimony from several of his accusers. A judge has ruled that the women will only be referred to by their first names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also are expected to offer evidence that Kelly schemed with others to pay for a fake ID for Aaliyah, a singer on the rise at 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah is identified as “Jane Doe #1” in court papers because she was still a minor when Kelly began a sexual relationship with her and believed she had become pregnant, the papers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_109968","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“As a result, in an effort to shield himself from criminal charges related to his illegal sexual relationship with Jane Doe #1, Kelly arranged to secretly marry her to prevent her from being compelled to testify against him in the future,” the papers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah, whose full name was Aaliyah Dana Haughton, worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/86198/the-most-creepily-problematic-sexy-songs-of-the-1990s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number.\u003c/a>” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is only part of the legal peril facing the singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly. He also has pleaded not guilty to sex-related charges in Illinois and Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly won multiple Grammys for “I Believe I Can Fly,” a 1996 song that became an inspirational anthem played at school graduations, weddings, advertisements and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade later, he began releasing what eventually became 22 musical chapters of “Trapped in the Closet,” a drama that spins a tale of sexual deceit and became a cult classic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kelly has been trailed for decades by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/109631/i-want-justice-r-kelly-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-2-more-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaints\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/109968/on-cbs-an-indicted-r-kelly-literally-screams-his-innocence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegations\u003c/a> about his sexual behavior, including a 2002 child pornography case in Chicago. He was acquitted in that case in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scrutiny intensified again amid the #MeToo movement in recent years, with multiple women going public with accusations against the singer. The pressure intensified with the release of the Lifetime documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108417/lady-gaga-needs-to-talk-about-r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/a>\u003c/em> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal charges soon followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AP\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13900892/jury-selection-starts-in-r-kelly-sex-trafficking-case","authors":["byline_arts_13900892"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_2461","arts_6443"],"featImg":"arts_13900893","label":"arts"},"arts_13884853":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13884853","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13884853","score":null,"sort":[1597433312000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"r-kellys-former-manager-charged-with-gun-threat-to-surviving-r-kelly-screening","title":"R. Kelly's Former Manager Charged With Gun Threat to 'Surviving R. Kelly' Screening","publishDate":1597433312,"format":"standard","headTitle":"R. Kelly’s Former Manager Charged With Gun Threat to ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Screening | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>On Friday, federal prosecutors \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/r-kelly-s-manager-charged-placing-threatening-call-manhattan-theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">charged\u003c/a> former R. Kelly manager Donnell Russell with calling in a gun threat to a New York advance screening of the Lifetime television docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>in December 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-part series explored allegations that the fallen R&B star has sexually abused women and girls going back to the 1990s. The disrupted advance screening at New York’s NeueHouse theater was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/05/673676491/after-threats-r-kelly-documentary-screening-in-manhattan-is-evacuated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scheduled\u003c/a> to include a panel discussion featuring several of Kelly’s accusers and #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the threat was called in, the screening was canceled and the theater was evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell, who was Kelly’s manager at the time of the incident, is being charged with two counts of threatening physical harm by interstate communication and conspiracy to do the same. Friday’s charges were filed by prosecutors for the Southern District of New York and the New York office of the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the prosecutors, Russell was in Chicago at the time of the screening. They say that on the day of the event, he worked with another individual, called “CC-1” in the court filing, to draft messages to a Lifetime executive that discouraged the network from airing the series. Prosecutors say that Russell also sent Neuehouse a purported “cease and desist” letter to stop the screening; called the New York Police Department and the fire department in an attempt to disrupt the screening; and finally contacted a Neuehouse employee by phone to say that there was a person in the theater with a gun who was prepared to shoot up the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These charges are separate from federal charges \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901738670/three-r-kelly-associates-arrested-for-trying-to-bribe-intimidate-alleged-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed Wednesday\u003c/a> by the Eastern District of New York [EDNY] against Russell and two other Kelly associates, in which the men are accused of separate schemes to harass, threaten, intimidate and bribe several of Kelly’s alleged victims.[aside postid='arts_13884721']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gun threat to the ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ series was mentioned in Wednesday’s charges from EDNY, but it was SDNY and the FBI who have levied charges related to that incident in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday afternoon, EDNY magistrate judge Peggy Kuo approved a $75,000 bail package for Russell. He made his first appearance in front of an SDNY judge on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR.\u003c/a>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=R.+Kelly%27s+Former+Manager+Charged+With+Gun+Threat+To+%27Surviving+R.+Kelly%27+Screening&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal prosecutors in New York say that Donnell Russell placed a phone call threatening gun violence in December 2018.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020279,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":402},"headData":{"title":"R. Kelly's Former Manager Charged With Gun Threat to 'Surviving R. 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Kelly manager Donnell Russell with calling in a gun threat to a New York advance screening of the Lifetime television docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>in December 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-part series explored allegations that the fallen R&B star has sexually abused women and girls going back to the 1990s. The disrupted advance screening at New York’s NeueHouse theater was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/05/673676491/after-threats-r-kelly-documentary-screening-in-manhattan-is-evacuated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scheduled\u003c/a> to include a panel discussion featuring several of Kelly’s accusers and #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the threat was called in, the screening was canceled and the theater was evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell, who was Kelly’s manager at the time of the incident, is being charged with two counts of threatening physical harm by interstate communication and conspiracy to do the same. Friday’s charges were filed by prosecutors for the Southern District of New York and the New York office of the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the prosecutors, Russell was in Chicago at the time of the screening. They say that on the day of the event, he worked with another individual, called “CC-1” in the court filing, to draft messages to a Lifetime executive that discouraged the network from airing the series. Prosecutors say that Russell also sent Neuehouse a purported “cease and desist” letter to stop the screening; called the New York Police Department and the fire department in an attempt to disrupt the screening; and finally contacted a Neuehouse employee by phone to say that there was a person in the theater with a gun who was prepared to shoot up the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These charges are separate from federal charges \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901738670/three-r-kelly-associates-arrested-for-trying-to-bribe-intimidate-alleged-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed Wednesday\u003c/a> by the Eastern District of New York [EDNY] against Russell and two other Kelly associates, in which the men are accused of separate schemes to harass, threaten, intimidate and bribe several of Kelly’s alleged victims.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13884721","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gun threat to the ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ series was mentioned in Wednesday’s charges from EDNY, but it was SDNY and the FBI who have levied charges related to that incident in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday afternoon, EDNY magistrate judge Peggy Kuo approved a $75,000 bail package for Russell. He made his first appearance in front of an SDNY judge on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR.\u003c/a>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=R.+Kelly%27s+Former+Manager+Charged+With+Gun+Threat+To+%27Surviving+R.+Kelly%27+Screening&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13884853/r-kellys-former-manager-charged-with-gun-threat-to-surviving-r-kelly-screening","authors":["byline_arts_13884853"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_2461","arts_6443"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13884854","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13884721":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13884721","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13884721","score":null,"sort":[1597260936000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"three-r-kelly-associates-arrested-for-trying-to-bribe-intimidate-alleged-victims","title":"Three R. Kelly Associates Arrested For Trying to Bribe, Intimidate Alleged Victims","publishDate":1597260936,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Three R. Kelly Associates Arrested For Trying to Bribe, Intimidate Alleged Victims | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Three associates of fallen R&B star R. Kelly were arrested and charged Tuesday by New York federal authorities. The three are being accused of attempting to harass, threaten, intimidate and bribe several of Kelly’s alleged victims of sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men are 31-year-old Richard Arline, Jr. a self-described friend of the singer; Donnell Russell, 45, a self-described “manager, advisor and friend” of Kelly; and Michael Williams, age 37, whom prosecutors say is a relative of one of Kelly’s former publicists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges were filed in the Eastern District of New York [EDNY]. According to prosecutors, Arline tried to bribe one of Kelly’s alleged victims earlier this year with a proposed payment of $500,000, in order to keep her from cooperating with the government and testifying against Kelly at trial. Prosecutors also say that Arline claimed that he has been in touch with Kelly, while he is being held in custody, via a three-way phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell, prosecutors say, tried to harass and intimidate another alleged Kelly victim and her mother between November 2018 and February of this year, after the woman filed a civil lawsuit against the singer. They accuse Russell of threatening to release sexually explicit photos of the woman, and to reveal elements of her sexual history, if she did not withdraw the suit. [aside postid='pop_104682']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecutors say that Russell, using an alias, also sent versions of those photos to producers and executives at Lifetime and A&E television on Dec. 4, 2018—the day that Lifetime was to hold an advance screening of part of its \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>docuseries. That screening and a panel discussion was canceled due to a gun threat that was called in shortly before the event was to take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams is charged with setting fire on June 11 to an SUV that was parked outside of a residence where one of Kelly’s alleged victims was staying in Florida; the SUV was leased by the woman’s father. According to prosecutors, investigators also found a fire accelerant around the residence. Additionally, prosecutors say, Williams searched the internet for information about the flammability of fertilizer and diesel fuel; materials about witness intimidation and tampering; and information about countries that do not have extradition treaties with the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the charges against the men were announced on Wednesday, one of Kelly’s attorneys, Steve Greenberg, posted on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SGcrimlaw/status/1293582381610340355?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “Without question, Robert Kelly had nothing to do with any of these alleged acts by those charged. He hasn’t attempted to intimidate anyone, or encouraged anyone else to do so. No involvement whatsoever.” [aside postid='pop_108417']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York prosecutors had already alleged that Kelly and his associates—including “managers, bodyguards, drivers, personal assistants and runners for Kelly, as well as members of Kelly’s entourage”—were acting as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815500741/new-york-federal-prosecutors-file-new-charges-against-r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organized crime ring\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have also contended that Kelly obstructed justice by destroying evidence and bribing witnesses during his last criminal trial, which ended with a not guilty verdict in Chicago in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly is currently facing two sets of federal criminal charges: one from EDNY and the other in Illinois. In total, these comprise 22 charges for allegedly abusing 11 girls and women over the course of more than two decades, from 1994 to 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Three+R.+Kelly+Associates+Arrested+For+Trying+To+Bribe%2C+Intimidate+Alleged+Victims&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal prosecutors say that one of the charged men tried to bribe an alleged Kelly victim with $500,000. 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Prosecutors also say that Arline claimed that he has been in touch with Kelly, while he is being held in custody, via a three-way phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell, prosecutors say, tried to harass and intimidate another alleged Kelly victim and her mother between November 2018 and February of this year, after the woman filed a civil lawsuit against the singer. They accuse Russell of threatening to release sexually explicit photos of the woman, and to reveal elements of her sexual history, if she did not withdraw the suit. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_104682","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecutors say that Russell, using an alias, also sent versions of those photos to producers and executives at Lifetime and A&E television on Dec. 4, 2018—the day that Lifetime was to hold an advance screening of part of its \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>docuseries. 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Additionally, prosecutors say, Williams searched the internet for information about the flammability of fertilizer and diesel fuel; materials about witness intimidation and tampering; and information about countries that do not have extradition treaties with the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the charges against the men were announced on Wednesday, one of Kelly’s attorneys, Steve Greenberg, posted on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SGcrimlaw/status/1293582381610340355?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “Without question, Robert Kelly had nothing to do with any of these alleged acts by those charged. He hasn’t attempted to intimidate anyone, or encouraged anyone else to do so. No involvement whatsoever.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_108417","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York prosecutors had already alleged that Kelly and his associates—including “managers, bodyguards, drivers, personal assistants and runners for Kelly, as well as members of Kelly’s entourage”—were acting as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815500741/new-york-federal-prosecutors-file-new-charges-against-r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organized crime ring\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have also contended that Kelly obstructed justice by destroying evidence and bribing witnesses during his last criminal trial, which ended with a not guilty verdict in Chicago in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly is currently facing two sets of federal criminal charges: one from EDNY and the other in Illinois. In total, these comprise 22 charges for allegedly abusing 11 girls and women over the course of more than two decades, from 1994 to 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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