Despite having previously joined in on 2019’s #MuteRKelly movement, American singer/songwriter Ne-Yo has revealed that he hasn’t boycotted the singer entirely, as he listens to his songs.
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In a recent interview with The Independent, on the heels of releasing his newest studio album, ‘Self-Explanatory’, Ne-Yo actually took some time to explain a few lingering topics concerning R. Kelly.
He said, “I have always been a person that can separate the artiste from the art.
“I don’t give a damn about your personal life, I don’t give a damn about what you’ve done wrong, or what you’ve done right, if I like the song, and it’s attached to a memory that means something to me, it has nothing to do with the artiste as a person anymore. It’s what this song means to me.”
He continued, “I’ve been in parties where someone will turn on an R. Kelly record, and people will be like ‘Boo!’ That’s *BLLEP BLEEP*, because you know good and well that before this happened, you’d be rocking out to this song, just like everybody else.
“From time to time, I still listen to R. Kelly music; you just can’t deny the quality.
“Anybody who tries to say R. Kelly isn’t one of the best songwriters on the face of the planet because of what he did in his personal life, you’re looking at the wrong thing.”
All of this is coming after Ne-Yo himself openly slammed R. Kelly in 2019. In an Instagram post, he wrote, “There is NO excuse.
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“Music is important. It really is. But it’s not more important than protecting our children, protecting our little girls. PERIOD. #IHaveADaughter #TF!?? #MUTERKELLY.”
Just so you know, R. Kelly was recently sentenced to thirty years in prison following his September 2021 conviction on nine counts of sex trafficking and racketeering charges in New York, though he is currently in Chicago awaiting his upcoming federal trial date.
According to Ne-Yo when he heard the verdict, he admitted that he wasn’t surprised.
He said, “I mean, there were a lot of cases, so I expected something in the realm of that, I pray this gives everybody who feels they were victimized by him a little bit of closure, on whatever pain was caused.”
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