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R. Kelly may be under fire, but Chris Brown's career is still flourishing


The Lifetime docu-series “Surviving R. Kelly” sheds new light on allegations that have circled the R&B star for decades. Maeve McDermott explains. USA TODAY

Chris Brown and R. Kelly were both in the news last week for very different reasons, with Brown celebrating a new deal with RCA Records –which makes him one of the youngest artists to own his master recordings – just as R. Kelly was coming under fire for claims in a damning documentary series.

It's a cycle that R&B fans have seen before with Kelly and Brown, both artists with histories of abuse, both artists periodically making headlines with horrifying stories of their alleged behavior, only to bounce back and continue their successful careers.

Considering Brown has spent the past decade racking up almost-yearly assault charges, his rosy beginning of 2019 was a reminder of how things used to be for R. Kelly, an artist who managed to maintain his fan-beloved reputation over nearly three decades of abuse allegations – though unlike Brown, Kelly has never been convicted.

Things look shakier now for Kelly with the premiere of Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary Jan. 3, prompting yet another national conversation about Kelly’s history of alleged crimes and resulting in a renewed interest in a potential criminal case against Kelly among prosecutors in Atlanta and Chicago.

Those who have followed R. Kelly’s controversies can remember how many other times he outlasted seemingly career-ending allegations to continue recording and touring. It’s easy to be skeptical about whether “Surviving R. Kelly” will have a definitive impact on Kelly’s R&B-legend status. And looking at Chris Brown, who has capitalized on the same kinds of fan sympathies as Kelly to develop his own Teflon reputation, it’s clear that things don’t seem to be changing in the younger generation of so-called R&B greats. Fans and industry players alike continue to support men with abusive tendencies, as packed arenas or comments rallying behind the artists on social media show.

Recent data shows that since the premiere of "Surviving R. Kelly," the artist's streams and sales have even spiked.

It’s been almost a decade since Brown was charged with felony assault for beating up Rihanna in 2009. A string of other incidents and allegations followed, none resulting in jail time: A woman accused Brown of shoving her to the ground after a nightclub show in California in 2013, though no charges were filed; Brown was convicted of a misdemeanor stemming from a 2015 assault charge by a woman in Colorado; a 2016 altercation at a Las Vegas nightclub in which a woman accused Brown of punching her in the face, with no charges filed; and Brown was hit with charges for assault with a deadly weapon later that year after a woman claimed that Brown pointed a gun at her face, which did not result in a conviction.

Then, in June 2017, a judge granted Brown’s ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran’s request for a restraining order after Tran claimed he threatened to kill her. And early last year, he was arrested outside of one of his concerts in Florida for an outstanding felony battery charge in a case that is still ongoing.

While Kelly has never been found guilty of any charges related to sexual harassment or assault, reports of sexually predatory behavior have followed him throughout his career, in addition to the numerous lawsuits he settled out of court with female accusers and his acquittal in his 2002 child pornography case. Most recently, a 2017 Buzzfeed report accused Kelly of trapping women in a “sex cult.” Additional women have come forwardin the months since – including in “Surviving R. Kelly” – to corroborate the story's shocking accounts of the alleged physical and psychological abuse Kelly inflicted against sometimes-underage women.

Yet both men have maintained their reputations, with fans’ help, as the kings of R&B of their respective generations. Time and again, Kelly and Brown have called fans to their defenses by speaking directly to them in posts and videos on social media, making themselves out to be persecuted geniuses and presenting their followers as the true believers, manipulating their fans into standing in solidarity with them.

As writer Jamilah Lemieux explained in “Surviving R. Kelly,” “When someone like R. Kelly gets in trouble, there’s this knee-jerk instinct to protect him, from the system, from the hand of the law, from all these forces at play that make sure black people, and black men in particular, don’t succeed. ‘We have to stand by him. We have to take care of him.’”

And of course, as RCA’s continued involvement with both artists goes to show, music industry players continue to exist who are perfectly willing to fund – and profit from – Kelly and Brown’s careers.

So while R. Kelly’s public profile may have taken another hit this week, his labelmate Chris Brown stands strong as a reminder of how resilient famous singers’ reputations can be against even the most documented histories of violence.

Given the previous three decades’ precedent of Kelly eluding guilty verdicts and jail time, even something as damning as “Surviving R. Kelly” may not be enough to bring him down. That’s a win for the two artists, a win for RCA’s payday, a win for the fans who still insist on supporting their “R&B kings” at whatever cost and a win for every predator in the music industry following Kelly and Brown’s playbook. But it’s a loss for the rest of us, for women, and for every other music listener who is more than ready for these men's time to be up.
 
We need to call them dudes in here who said this ain't an attack on black men.
What they saying now .....how much proof you need?
Oh wait...we need a doc 15 yrs afterward to say just how deep it really was an then people might get mad but then say it doesn't matter because it should have been taken care back then...and others will say it doesn't matter we talking about now....an yet another will say.....if we took care if it back then...all the black men taken down wouldn't have to happen.
 
here is the writer of the article....just like I figured

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We need to call them dudes in here who said this ain't an attack on black men.
What they saying now .....how much proof you need?
Oh wait...we need a doc 15 yrs afterward to say just how deep it really was an then people might get mad but then say it doesn't matter because it should have been taken care back then...and others will say it doesn't matter we talking about now....an yet another will say.....if we took care if it back then...all the black men taken down wouldn't have to happen.

It's not. As a black man who never beat the living shit out of my superfamous girlfriend and never molested any kids or committed any rapes I'm chillin.

They do need to leave Chris Brown alone though as long as he stays out of trouble.
 
I think the time had alot to do with why chris brown wasnt really affected much by that shit, if he was to beat a womans ass today then most def his career would be over with
 
CB was dragged through hell as much as any celebrity could be. That shit was everywhere. There is no real reason for them to dust this off right now. For them to rehash this as Weinstien has beaten another charge, another white rapist is given an oscar, Ed Buck is suspiciously "stumbling" on black bodies in his own home, and all this on top of all the other white sexual offenders getting slaps on the wrist is more evidence people in media are disingenuous with there narrative. There's all kinds of real, current and worst things going on in Hollywood she could of written about instead talking bout a nigga that's been minding his business.
 
Niggas thought it was sweet. Lmao. These white boys taking us down with them by any means. Yall don't see it?
 
White people hate Chris Brown so much, its crazy. I think one part of it is the current #MeToo culture, but I believe the main reason is he never begged for white forgiveness from strangers. That really rubbed them the wrong way.
If you ever go on reddit or other sites, when you see a hate Chris Brown article that they're pushing for clicks, you'll always see people saying "never forget Chris brown almost murdered Rhianna". That shit always gets more likes than people saying how thats an actual lie.
 
I swear black ppl are the only ones not allowed to move on


Black peoples are actually co-signing their own demise, going along with this shit. White aren’t about empowering us, and this is undoubtedly funded by white interests. The white power behind this movement are getting black people to agree that no one is to be forgiven, no matter how long ago a situation has occurred, or the fact that it didn’t occur again. Black people are agreeing that it is okay to lynch us.

Don’t forget that the Internet now controls a lot of minds. People no longer read to discover and grow; they read to join a crowd and to groupthink.

Also, whites are declining in America—-what better way to gain control of the minds of millions black people and get us to destroy one another, through the Internet and social control?
 
White people hate Chris Brown so much, its crazy. I think one part of it is the current #MeToo culture, but I believe the main reason is he never begged for white forgiveness from strangers. That really rubbed them the wrong way.
If you ever go on reddit or other sites, when you see a hate Chris Brown article that they're pushing for clicks, you'll always see people saying "never forget Chris brown almost murdered Rhianna". That shit always gets more likes than people saying how thats an actual lie.

Whites have lynching in their DNA. Couple that with the God Complex that they have through White Supremacy. They view Chris Brown the way they view all black people: he was deserving of a lynching and got away. They are still coming for Chris Brown, knowing full well they don’t give a damn about Rihanna.
 
We need to call them dudes in here who said this ain't an attack on black men.
What they saying now .....how much proof you need?
Oh wait...we need a doc 15 yrs afterward to say just how deep it really was an then people might get mad but then say it doesn't matter because it should have been taken care back then...and others will say it doesn't matter we talking about now....an yet another will say.....if we took care if it back then...all the black men taken down wouldn't have to happen.

Jada Pinkett and John Legend ain’t safe. They been rich and in Hollywood to long not to have some skeletons in their closet; which is why they are shucking and jiving on the bandwagon now. If WE knew about R. Kelly—-them mofo’s been knew. So, what’s changed? #MeToo came out with a list of celebrities who ain’t said shit. Isn’t this called blackmail? Black people don’t have the power to do this to white people though.
 
White people hate Chris Brown so much, its crazy. I think one part of it is the current #MeToo culture, but I believe the main reason is he never begged for white forgiveness from strangers. That really rubbed them the wrong way.
If you ever go on reddit or other sites, when you see a hate Chris Brown article that they're pushing for clicks, you'll always see people saying "never forget Chris brown almost murdered Rhianna". That shit always gets more likes than people saying how thats an actual lie.

so this never happened huh?

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