First of all, it's good to be back. I would have posted sooner, but stupid Blogger kept saying autosave while I was writing a post; come to find out, nothing was saved, and I lost inspiration, as I had a really good post in mind. It's a moot point now, and I'm sure I'll end up writing about it later. But now for the story at hand.
R. Kelly, in his first (and apparently only) interview about his child pornography case, finally "addressed" the sex tape from 2002. I use the term very loosely, as it didn't seem to answer any of the questions I really wanted answers to. To be honest, back when I heard about the tape in 10th grade, I didn't really believe in his innocence; I mean, this is a guy that married Aaliyah, his old protege, when she was 15 years old...I found it kind of surprising that there was no kind of prosecution then. Granted, it was annulled soon after, as Aaliyah lied about her age in order to get married, but R. Kelly knew for a fact that she wasn't 18, because he had known her for three years prior. Another thing; he honestly expected us to believe that someone who looked like him, made this sex tape, and said he was R. Kelly in order to frame him or whatever happened. I suppose the only thing worse is that people (i.e. the jury) actually did believe him. I mean, celebrities have all sorts of fake porn, where it's just a look alike, but they use a celeb's name to hook people into watching it like Paris Hilton- oh, right. Well, what about Kim Kard-...damnit this isn't helping my case. The point is, fake crap like this happens literally all the time, but this is the first time it's become so famous. Strange coincidence. Another strange coincidence is that the girl who served as Robert's urinal just happens to be the niece of Sparkle. Sparkle, an R&B singer, was yet another protege of Kells, who I'm convinced he piped while she was a teenager. The part of the interview that stuck out to me is when Toure brings up that R. Kelly's brother Kerry, and his manager both expressed concern that the Pied Piper (who ironically is also the weirdo of lore who left town with a bunch of kids) was into really young girls:
Toure - …but your brother Kerry...was not.. fired, he’s still your brother.
Kells - Yeah, he was fired.
Toure - Yeah..um, but he’s still your brother.
Kells - Doesn’t matter. He still my brother, but if he was still my brother why did he get fired?
First off, smh at R. Kelly being too stupid to understand what Toure was talking about. But it brings up an interesting point; if my brother fired me or whatever, I might call him a snake, but I sure as hell am not gonna call him a child molester just because I'm upset...gonna be hard to ask him to pass the peas at Thanksgiving after something like that. But then again, R. Kelly already tried to throw Carey under the bus by implicating that he was the guy from the tape, so I'm assuming all bridges are burned by now. At another point, Toure explicitly asks whether or not R. Kelly is into teenagers, and he couldn't say no. I'm not going to convince anyone that R. Kelly is innocent or guilty (HE didn't even say whether or not he's innocent or guilty) but I think we can all agree that he deserves to be in jail, if for nothing else, at least for those 22 chapters of Trapped in the Closet. You can watch the interview here, courtesy of RealTalkNY.