One of the weirdest concerts I even saw was the "Tune In, Turn On, Burn Out" Tour Sisters of Mercy Gang of Four Public Enemy Warrior Soul (?) Some hip hop group called "Young Black Teenagers" (none of whom were black and I don't think any were teenagers). We did not buy tickets in advanced, as it did not appear it would be a sellout. We parked and had people offer to sell us tickets, the closer we got to the gate, the cheaper the tickets. We ended up paying about $10.00. At the door, there was some guy just giving tickets away. There was maybe 1,000-3,000 out of a 25,000 seat venue. As I recall we bought lawn seats, but sat in the fourth or fifth row of the pavilion. It was pretty sad. "The result was a fascinating cultural event and a frustrating concert in which the groups` disparities became more apparent than any shared bond." https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-07-14-9103190595-story.html
Back to the rapists. R Kelly just got 30 years. I only knew him from the I Believe I Can Fly song. But somehow his Trapped in the Closet hiphop-era was on one time and I saw a few. That's some of the funniest shit I've ever seen. Hard to even describe it.
Considering how long the rumors have swirled around him and the sheer amount of accusers, it is amazing the amount of time it took for his crimes to catch up with him. Really only Weinstein and Cosby come to mind for high profile/famous predators who managed to get away with their crimes for a similar amount of time.
This is the NFL. He wasn't accused of any sort of crime they consider serious, like smoking pot. How much did Ben Rapelisberger get again? Something like that probably.
I saw a year in an article that also said Baker Mayfield expects his ass to be kissed by the Browns in order for him to come back
Full credit to Chicago journalist Jim DeRogatis and writer and documentarian Dream Hampton for pushing the topic for decades. Good interview with Hampton here. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-...ary-conversations-about-sexual-abuse-and-race This passage in the intro is doubly timely Allegations of abuse have followed R. Kelly for nearly three decades. And, to be clear, his is not the story of a star hooking up with a groupie—Kelly has been accused of running something resembling a cult. Women have said that they were kept in his home as prisoners, suffering physical and emotional abuse, for years. A tape emerged—and was viewed around the country—that seemed to show Kelly molesting a minor. In 2008, he was tried and acquitted on fourteen counts of child pornography. Kelly has denied everything, and by and large his fans and those close to him have stuck by him. The bolded sounds oddly Trumpy.
You must have hears "I Believe I can Fly." According to Wiki, it was top the chart in the Netherlands and Europe in 1996/1997.
If that's the case I either missed it or it was so out of stuff of my liking it disappeared in a black hole.
Honestly, I can list on two hands the times I've heard that song, and have fingers left over. Part of it is because I avoid the radio stations where I'd hear anything like that, and none of my friends like anything like that. OTOH, I've heard The Greatest Love Of All faaaaaar too many times, by faaaar too many people...
When it was charting, I heard it all the time, everywhere. When R. Kelly went on trial, clips got played by everybody, everywhere. It has not become, with no irony, a church song.
He will get a year. The NFL will try to make him the scapegoat of all their sins. DeShaun is clearly a sexual serial predator though and he should be out of the league. Dan Snyder is an other one, but I doubt he will be gone anytime soon.
I think it’s hilarious and emblematic that you’ve already gotten 3 reps for a prediction that may or may not come true. Seems premature to me. For those that repped it, why?