Album review: R. Kelly – The buffet

Written for Kurrent Music
Published December 31st 2015

What R. Kelly Serves

R. Kelly review

It takes years to build a good reputation. It takes just a second to lose it. And while a reputation gets build on verifications, sometimes, all it needs to get broken is a rumor.

In music, rumors have taken their toll on the careers of the greatest musicians. Once rumors emerged about Michael Jackson’s alleged inappropriate behavior with his underaged friends, especially after settling out of court, he never fully got back the respect he had before.

People do generally believe that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Because usually there is.

Rumors surrounding R Kelly’s sexual interest in young girls emerged in 1994, after a brief marriage to, then underaged, Aaliyah and a court case, settled out of court, surrounding another young woman in 1996. Rumors, as well as legal problems, continued to follow him straight up onto 2008, in which most charges were dropped or he was acquitted.

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