The police received that tape in 2002. Also, this whole “there’s just no evidence” thing? He married Aaliyah when she was 15 years old and falsified her age in public documents.

It always gets ugly. But colorism is still a gigantic problem that needs addressing.

Hm, I really question our ability to have a nuanced conversation about colorism. Most I’ve seen end up in darker skinned folks complaining that lighter skinned folks benefit from colorism and don’t own their part in it. Lighter skinned folks complaining that their Blackness and experience gets discounted by other…

In the court filing, it says that after exposure to the mold years ago, Candice suffered an “inability to think clearly”...

“a dumb Stacey Dash”

1.) Couldn’t Maroon 5 play their signature brand of crap without rappers? Or are we officially at the point where we have to shoehorn in some black people so black people won’t rightly point out that most halftime shoes with white people on their own are whack?

first the eviction notice gave them days but now this.. not saying it could have happened sooner but 5 days of now is a whole hellava lot of time to break things down and clean it up.. if they find anything id be surprised #cleanedupandgone

“I’ll tell you what’s changed between then and now. She says, ‘If I don’t disclaim my association with him, it might hurt my chance to get an Oscar.’ That’s exactly what it is.”

Broken clocks and all that.

Yes, the manager fucked up but what about the cop writing the warnings? Seriously? The receipts are likely timestamped and every grocery store I’ve been in over the past twenty some odd years has video surveillance of every register. You can review the tape and watch them buying the goddamned snacks. Where’s the…

Translation-”Oh shit, the national news has picked up on it. We better half ass some response before our customers give us the finger.”

What’s heartbreaking to me is there are a LOT of black women defending R. Smelly and blaming the girls! I stopped going to the girl who does my hair 3 years ago because of her defense of R. Kelly!

This dude is so problematic I don’t even know where to begin. I have stated here on the Root multiple times before that I unfortunately had the opportunity to witness some of this shit up close and in person since I worked a couple of his tours, so I will hold off on a more lengthy tirade. However, this line sums it…

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Black people’s speech/vernacular often gets picked apart and taken hyper-literally, so this author’s presumption isn’t actually that surprising.

Can we please tie this back to Chris Brown still having a career? Can we name names supporting both of these men and out those people as abusers by proxy? Let's go ham. 

Yes, it’s surprised me every time someone has collaborated with R Kelly at least since the child rape tape became public knowledge in 2002. It’s good that musicians are finally making statements against this guy, but tweets are free. Let’s see them donate some money or time to organizations in honor of the girls/women…

Green Book is going to be this generation’s Crash; an award-winning movie that gets praised for its perspective on race, only to later be revealed to be facile and patronizing as hell.

AGREED. That sex tape girl’s parents are sell outs and sold their daughter to Kelly.

R. Kelly is GUILTY. He raped minors...who could not consent.

• As of 2011, he was still in contact with the underage girl from the infamous sex tape