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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Black Ink Crew Chicago’ Star Charmaine Bey Says She Is “Pleased R. Kelly Has To Face His Demons”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Black Ink Crew Chicago’s premiere is just days away. Hip-Hop Wired caught up with OG cast member Charmaine Bey, and we asked her about R.Kelly’s recent conviction ahead of the show’s premiere. R.Kelly’s day of reckoning finally arrived on Monday (Sept. 27) after the singer was found guilty on all counts of sex trafficking and racketeering. In one episode of the hit VH1 reality show, Bey linked up with fellow radio personality Kendra G. to protest against the disgraced singer in his hometown of Chicago. During our interview, we asked the reality star/radio host how she felt about the pied piper of R&Pee being found guilty. She admitted to not being up to speed on what was going on in the trial but was “pleased” to know...
Unbelievable: Former Sex Crimes Prosecutor Actually Signed On To Defend R. Kelly
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty R. Kelly might very well be the most desirable client for even the most talented of defense attorneys, but it appears that the beleaguered signer and songwriter has at least one legal ally willing to risk it all. A former sex crimes prosecutor who once viewed Kelly in an unfavorable light has since switched her position and is now defending him. Insider profiled Nicole Blank Becker, who reportedly worked for over 20 years in support of sexual assault and related sex crimes victims in order to bring their alleged assailant to justice. In the piece, Becker, who watched the shocking Lifetime documentary series Surviving R. Kelly, was initially disgusted by the details shared within. Now, she’s decided to switch her stance and lend her...
R. Kelly’s Defense Lawyer Bizarrely Compares Him To MLK, Hugh Hefner
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty In potentially one of the most confusing spectacles ever seen in a courtroom, the defense lawyer for disgraced R&B singer R.Kelly gave his closing argument in the federal trial and made some outlandish comparisons between the singer and Dr. Martin Luther King, among others. Per Buzzfeed News, Deveraux Cannick, the defense attorney for R. Kelly, made his closing argument to the jury in the Brooklyn, New York courthouse on Thursday (September 23) and it began in a highly convoluted manner. He began by trying to compare Kelly to the civil rights hero Dr. Martin Luther King, asking the jury to let his client go free. “I told you about Dr. King and the people of courage for a reason,” Cannick said. “Getting a conviction of R. Kelly ...
R. Kelly Chooses Not To Testify In Sex Trafficking Trial
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty The Pied Piper of R&B is keeping his mouth shut. Disgraced crooner and accused predator R. Kelly has decided not to testify in his sex trafficking trial in Brooklyn. “No, ma’am,” Kelly told U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly, per Raw Story, when he was asked if he wanted to testify on his own behalf. R’uh’s trial began on August 18 and jurors heard testimony from victims, witnesses and others who said they observed instances of his alleged illicit behavior. The Chicago native has pleaded not guilty to a count of racketeering and eight counts of illegally transporting people across state lines for prostitution. The testimony has been vile, particularly when involved the late singer Aaliyah, who R. Kelly married when she was still ...
Witness Alleges R. Kelly Abused Aaliyah At Age 13
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cook County Department of Corrections / Cook County Department of Corrections The federal racketeering trial against disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly has unearthed some truly disturbing allegations, and the latest one has the late singer Aaliyah at the center of it. On Monday (September 13th) in the federal court in Brooklyn, New York, a witness referred to as “Angela” testified that they frequently had sexual relations when she was a minor. “Angela” met Kelly when she was 15 at a party at his apartment in Chicago. She stated that first meeting ended up in her becoming part of an orgy initiated by R. Kelly. She testified that she would later drop out of high school to be a backup dancer for him on tour in 1992 or 1993. When the prosecutor displayed a pho...
Drake Producer Noah “40” Shebib Explains R. Kelly Sample Fail
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Christopher Polk/AMA2012 / Getty It’s 2021, and aligning yourself, even inadvertently, with anything R. Kelly-related is asking for a fail. Enter Drake, who sampled the disgraced crooner on his new album, Certified Lover Boy, and has been catching flack for it ever since. R. Kelly’s hit tune “Half On a Baby” is sampled on “TSU.” Anyone with fundamental knowledge of how music publishing works knows the Pied Piper had to be credited, or else he could come back and sue, and surely win, for copyright infringement. The 6 God’s longtime producer Noah “40” Shebib recently took to social media to explain details of what seemed like a suspect maneuver. 40 hit the comments on a post shared by Ravyn Wngz of an article that said R. Kelly was a “co-writer.” Turns out,...
Minister Who Married R. Kelly & 15-Year-Old Aaliyah Details Shotgun Hotel Room Wedding To Court
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: E. JASON WAMBSGANS / Getty It’s not looking good for the king of R&Pee. R.Kelly’s federal sex trafficking trial is trucking along, and the prosecution is not playing. Wednesday (Sep.1), the minister who officiated Kelly’s 1994 wedding to Aaliyah testified under subpoena. Buzzfeed News reports 73-year-old minister Nathan Edmond claimed in his sworn testimony he never met both singers before he performed the “ceremony,’ that he revealed he was asked to do by Keith Williams, a mutual friend he shared with Kelly. “I didn’t think it was anybody special. I didn’t understand it at all,” he stated during day 10 of Kelly’s ongoing federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial being held in Brooklyn. Edmond shared further details about the shotgun wedding that...
Down Low: Male Accuser Details Sexual Abuse He Allegedly Endured At The Hands of R.Kelly During Federal Trial
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty Disgraced singer and alleged peddler of herpes R.Kelly didn’t just prey on young Black girls. He also allegedly messed with boys too. R.Kelly’s federal sex trafficking trial is currently underway. The witnesses are spilling the tea on the stand, and all share similar stories of how the singer/songwriter used his fame and influence to manipulate them into performing sexual acts. But one witness, in particular, is garnering attention, being that he is a male. As spotted on NewsOne, the male accuser whose identity remains concealed detailed how R.Kelly met him at his alleged favorite scouting location McDonald’s, when he was only 17. Like Kelly’s alleged female victims, the “Down Low” singer used the at-the-time 17-year old’s dream of...
Broke Alone: R. Kelly Can’t Find Buyer To Purchase His Music Publishing Catalog
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cook County Department of Corrections / Cook County Department of Corrections R. Kelly is looking to raise money and rather quickly. According to reports he is trying to sell his publishing rights but no one is buying. The disgraced crooner is apparently going through it like never before. A couple of weeks ago his lawyer Deveraux L. Cannick revealed that Robert’s funds are almost completely exhausted. So much so he requested trial transcripts for him, which are usually provided at cost, for free. According to Billboard Magazine his music publishing generates about $1.7 million dollars a year. He is apparently trying to sell it but thus far he has had no luck finding a buyer. Due to his association to some very vile accusations, including s...
R. Kelly’s Federal Trial Begins With Disgusting Account of Alleged Abuse
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Timothy Savage(C) and Jonjelyn Savage(L), parents of victim Jocelyn Savage, speak to the media as they arrive to attend the trial in the racketeering and sex trafficking case of R. Kelly at Brooklyn Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York on August 18, 2021. – For more than a quarter-century Kelly, now 54, has faced lurid accusations including child pornography, sex with minors, operating a sex cult and sexual battery. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) The federal trial for disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly finally began, with the prosecution making opening statements and witness testimony showing just how heavy the case is against him. On Wednesday morning (August 18) in a Brooklyn courthouse, the prosecution ma...
R. Kelly Wants Federal Herpes Charges Bumped
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: E. JASON WAMBSGANS / Getty The R. Kelly trial in Brooklyn just started, and it’s already been the gift of gossip that keeps on giving—no pun intended. The disgraced R&B crooner’s lawyers are requesting that the charges related to R. Kelly passing on STD’s to his victims be dropped. Good luck with that. TMZ reports that R’s counsel is citing a technicality to get the charges tossed. Reportedly, the legal docs file the Eastern District of NY, R. Kelly’s team is asking that the charge that he knowingly exposed sexual partners to herpes get tossed because the law being cited doest include herpes because it’s “Not An Acute, Bacterial Venereal Disease.” So Team Pied Piper is basically saying herpes shouldn’t count. Again, good luck with that. The prosecutio...
Penniless Piper: R. Kelly Says He’s Broke Weeks Before Trial Starts
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cook County Department of Corrections / Cook County Department of Corrections The wack juice continues to be poured on R. Kelly. He now claims his finances are in shambles weeks away from a major trial starting. As spotted on Page Six the Pied Piper Of Pee-Pee is in a place far more sunken that any of his fans or haters have imagined. Earlier this week he appeared in Brooklyn federal court for a hearing. During the proceedings his lawyer revealed that The R is hurting financially. “His finances are depleted,” said Devereaux Cannick. “I ask the court to give him daily copies of the transcripts.” He also stated that the Chicago, Illinois native has gotten severely out of shape while behind bars. “We need measurements for appropriate attire for his tria...
