R.Kelly…You either love him or you hate him. You can either look beyond his history of alleged sex crimes and enjoy his music or you can’t…This seems to be the overall picture gathered from Kelly’s latest interview with New York Magazine.
R.Kelly sat down with the mag during one of his listening sessions discuss the album he has on the way. His thirteen studio album titled, The Buffet, is slated to drop December 11th. During the discussion, Kelly revealed that he’s very in tune to the criticism and controversy that surrounds him and talks how he thinks it effects his music.
When it comes to the things he’s heard about himself R.Kelly said,
“I’m going to always have the gift along with the curse,” he says. “I feel like I got a million people hating me, I’ve got maybe 8 million loving me. So I’ve got 9 million talking about me, and in a strange, magical way, it keeps me in the game.”
In addition to Kelly, the mag spoke with Jim DeRogatis, a former reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and music critic who has poured hours of extensive research into Kelly’s history of alleged sex crimes. He thinks fans need to be exposed to what an lies in an artist like R.Kelly’s past.
“People need to be aware of, given the subject matter of his art, what he is really about, you can despise the individual and appreciate the art, fine, but you need to be aware that you’re making a conscious decision to overlook some very, very bad behavior. You’re either ignorant of what he’s been charged of, or you’ve thought it through and said, ‘That all matters less to me than his cool grooves.’ What I want is for people to at least think about it.”
You can check out the full interview here.
Thoughts?
Source Complex
