Did Kanye West actually low-key defend R. Kelly over the weekend?

January 15, 2019

In the year 2019, we’re still dealing with all of this old crap. People are still JUST NOW cancelling R. Kelly. And people are JUST NOW canceling Kanye West too. It’s weird. The first time anyone heard about what R. Kelly did to multiple underage girls should have been the end of R. Kelly. And the first time Kanye wore his signed MAGA hat should have been the end of Kanye. But no. I guess not. Unlike Lady Gaga’s oddly-worded apology for collaborating with R. Kelly, Kanye has yet to say anything directly about HIS collab with R. Kelly in 2012, on the album Cruel Summer. In fact, Kanye may be saying sh-t off-the-record to people about how we should just be allowed to enjoy problematic/criminal artists:

Kanye West is joining the growing number of celebrities weighing in on the R. Kelly controversy. While hosting one of his new Sunday Service events, West referenced Kelly while arguing that art should be separated from the artist. He also mentioned the upcoming Michael Jackson documentary, “Leaving Neverland,” which is set to air on HBO this spring.
“They just gonna pull up full documentaries on him,” West said, according to Complex and a live-streamed video recorded by TMZ. “Then they gonna come with the Michael [Jackson] documentary. … We can all enjoy all their music all we want. I thought I wasn’t going to go there today. If we’re gonna tear down artists, let’s go ahead and take [Leonardo] da Vinci out the Lourve while we’re at it. Let’s take down all the art.”

[From USA Today]

I would like to know the larger context for these quotes, mostly because I’m guessing that these are just a few sentences in a full-on rant which was probably a lot more offensive. I also think that like all narcissists, Kanye isn’t thinking of R.Kelly or Michael Jackson’s musical contributions as much as he’s thinking of his own contributions and his own problems. Kanye knows, somewhere, that he’s been canceled by a lot of people for his MAGA politics and he’s thinking “why can’t people just listen to MY music regardless of what I do or say?” Anyway, yes, it’s offensive to see Kanye caping for R.Kelly. But Kim Kardashian is here to tell us that we’re taking him out of context!

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 14, 2019

As I said, I believe Kanye has problems seeing beyond his own narcissistic concerns, so I think Kim is probably right on some level – Kanye was talking about himself and thinking solely about himself… and in doing so, he gave a sideways defense of R.Kelly. Is anyone surprised?

Photos courtesy of Backgrid,WENN.

Source: Read Full Article