This article talks about the singer, R.Kelly, who has been accused of doing many sexual things with girls who are underaged. Even since the beginning of his career in the late 1980s, R.Kelly has been accused of these things. It all started when he started to date the singer, Aaliyah, at age 14 or 15. This caused a huge outbreak of negative comments and people began to call him a predator. Kelly was also in a child pornography scandal that involved him urinating on a young girl. Also, there were many rape charges against him. Even after all of these allegations, people slowly began to forget about these situations because he was a huge R&B sensation at that time.

These allegations are coming up again today because the girls who are accusing Kelly of doing these things have conducted a show called, “Surviving R.Kelly.” This show gives a platform for all of the young girls who were allegedly assaulted by R.Kelly to finally speak out.

This represents the huge problem of African-American women not being important in society. Most of the women who accused Kelly of these things were African American and people didn’t believe them because of that. Even the rapper, Chance the Rapper, spoke about this in an interview by saying, “(i) didn’t value the accusers’ stories because they were black women.” This shines a huge light on the problem because even a black man is saying that his opinion on the women was based solely on them being black. I feel like this is very unfair and contradicts women’s rights because people talk about women having equal rights, but then they say a black woman doesn’t have credibility because she’s black.

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This article talks about a young singer by the name of Jacquees, saying that he is the King of R&B. Many other singers and their fans took offense to this and they responded very sarcastically. The whole situation started from an instagram video Jacquees posted on December 9th saying, “(i) just want to let everybody know that I’m the king of R&B right now, for this generation.” Shorty after saying this, a major news profile for celebrities called “theshaderoom” posted the video where many other celebrities and people said their opinions, which were mostly negative.

One singer who responded to this debate was Chris Brown, he posted a picture on his insta snap saying “I’m loving all this R&B talk”, he also liked many of his fans comments that said he was the King of R&B. Another singer who responded was Tank, he posted a video of him singing a song with high notes and captioned it, “(i) don’t care who your KING is he just better be able to do this!”

This affected the black community because they took offense to Jacquees claiming such a huge title that he didn’t deserve. I honestly feel that Jacquees was being arrogant and just talking without thinking. He only has a three hit songs, meanwhile many other artists like Chris Brown, Trey Songz, R.Kelly, Tank have numerous hits, but Jacquees feels the need to call himself a king. I also feel like there are more important and better things to talk about than arguing over who’s the King of R&B.

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