Smh. This Editor's Note is bullshit.

Most of the stories shared by DeRogatis came from the south side — specifically from around R. Kelly's old high school. I was using what information I had, not trying to say that that was the only place R. Kelly has ever gone after girls.

Glad you're discussing this but can you be more accurate in the information you're sharing? Specifically, R. Kelly has not "been sexually exploiting young Black women on the south side of Chicago for decades". R. Kelly has been sexually exploiting young Black women wherever he finds them. He tried to pick me up in…

I heard a lengthy interview with DiRogatis this summer, just as Pitchfork was set to kick off. I was floored by the amount of information he had uncovered, about which nothing had been done. And one point that he made struck me pretty deeply, the park where Pitchfork was held this summer, and where R. Kelley, headline…

I really have to give props to Jim DeRogatis for this. Here in Chicago, he's been criticized for his continuing investigation into R. Kelly - a lot of fellow critics telling him to "get over it" or "move on" after R. Kelly was found not guilty on the child pornography charges. JDeR has been really scrupulous with…

He played Pitchfork this summer and before the show, I had told people I had moral qualms about supporting him. And my friends—all of whom I consider to be intelligent, socially conscious, liberal arts-educated, etc. people—didn't seem bothered? So I thought, "Oh, maybe I'm overreacting?" But... I wasn't! Also his…

I haven't seen, but has there been a response yet on here about the WTF-ness of this post, especially considering the conversations that have been taking place about R. Kelly's predatory activities.

guttural rage. i love most pieces here, and lindy and erin are tops. i am seriously considering jumping ship after being a daily (every damn day) reader for YEARS.

Glad you linked this WBEZ piece—it's really well done.

This video should be attached to every comment on the article. So that Ms. Aran and Jezebel get it hammered into their skulls.

R. Kelly? Pedophile R. Kelly?
Why is he being celebrated here?

Or, in R. Kelly's case, a 14-year-old girl is nothing but a life-support system for a pussy.

R. Kelly is a piece of shit. I can't believe this article is on Jezebel. Honestly. WTF.

There is so much bullshit happening here, I can't even deal.

Would Jezebel's staff be as forgiving of Kels if a string of White Women came forward and said he peed on them and had sex with them when then they were teens? Would Black Panties be admired then? I doubt much of the industry, VIBE/BET included would be.

You know the panties he's talking about are Underoos. Carry on Jezebel and your whites-only brand of feminism. Endorse a pedophilic monster who preys on young black women.

Nothing about the above post is appropriate. R. Kelly is a rapist and is no friend to black women. His entire album is not an ode to anything except his sickness.

this man is fucking pedophile, why hasn't he been removed from our tv's and itunes amd sentenced to exile. r kelly is disgusting he should die.

Please tell me this is sarcasm and you're trolling us.

"Of course, no song quite reaches the heartfelt poignancy of "Marry the Pussy," a song which not only boasts repeating the word "pussy" 56 times, but also is an actual proposal song to a woman's sex organs. Yes. A marriage proposal to a pussy."