As R. Kelly’s music gained ignition, cultural representations of his scandal-clad career made the world more familiar with a remix of the R&B singer/producer’s life story.
His sexual habits not only fueled his explicit lyrics and latest album The Buffet but the rumors tarnishing the Grammy-award winner’s reputation.
Recently, Kelly met with
GQ to amend some of the talk—discussing sexual abuse as a child, days on trial for child pornography, his relationship with the late Aaliyah, and even a few words on Bill Crosby’s downfall.
R. Kelly starts with his upbringing in a poverty-stricken Chicago neighborhood where he was taunted for his inability to read. A close relationship with his single mother could not distract him from his father’s absence in their South Side home, he told GQ.
