![]() ![]() I then became an investigative reporter, digging into Hudson County’s waterfront development. No reporter starts out covering his dream assignments I began by covering the Hoboken beat. I went to New York University and majored in journalism, and, in my senior year, I began working at the Jersey Journal. He died two weeks later, at the age of thirty-three. That comment and that day settled it: I wanted to do what Bangs did. “Good rock and roll is something that makes you feel alive,” he said. He swatted away most of the questions that I’d carefully scrawled on a yellow steno pad, in favor of having a conversation, but he did take time to define the music that he loved most, as I had dutifully asked him to. I spent a long afternoon with Bangs, in his pigsty of an apartment, off Fourteenth Street, in Manhattan. When I was a senior at Hudson Catholic Regional High School for Boys, in Jersey City, in 1982, I took a journalism class, and the teacher assigned us to interview “a chosen hero in your field.” I picked the rock critic Lester Bangs. Kelly has long denied any wrongdoing, even recording a song professing his innocence, singing: “I’m so falsely accused.Ever since my early teens, I have had two obsessions: music and journalism. Earlier in his career, he was tried and acquitted on child pornography charges. In October, his ex-wife Andrea Kelly accused him of domestic violence. Throughout 20, Kelly was accused of holding five women in a sex “cult”, with a former girlfriend alleging that he had sexual contact with girls as young as 14. Prosecutors in Chicago and Atlanta are appealing for new information about Kelly’s alleged abuses. Kelly’s ex-manager, Henry James Mason, turned himself into police in Georgia after a warrant was issued for his arrest for allegedly making “terroristic threats and acts” against the family of Joycelyn Savage, whose family claim that she has been brainwashed by Kelly and is being held captive in his alleged “cult”. The French band Phoenix apologised for inviting Kelly to perform with them at the 2013 Coachella festival. Stars including Lady Gaga and Céline Dion have removed their duets with Kelly from streaming platforms. Kelly’s daughter, Buku Abi, described him as “a monster”. The action followed a wave of disavowals from the embattled star. The documentary prompted protests outside Sony’s New York headquarters last week. Kelly’s long-term record label, RCA, a subsidiary of Sony, this weekend announced that it was terminating its relationship with the singer. In a subsequent interview with the Guardian, Badu said she didn’t regret her comments. I saw something good in Hitler,” and praised his paintings. In January 2018, Badu gave an interview to New York magazine in which she declared her love for Bill Cosby and said: “I see good in everybody. Kelly’s alleged history of sexual abuse – largely involving young black girls and women – first surfaced in 2002. Jay-Z, Mary J Blige, Lil Kim, Dave Chappelle, Lady Gaga and Questlove allegedly turned down interviews for the six-part series, which aired in early January.Īt the 2015 Soul Train awards, Badu introduced Kelly and said he “has done more for black people than anyone”, Pitchfork reports. eb- ErykahBadoula January 21, 2019īadu was among a number of celebrities who declined to appear in the Lifetime documentary Surviving R Kelly, according to executive producer dream hampton. Anything else has been fabricated or taken out of context. ![]() I want healing for you and anyone you have hurt as a result of you being hurt. That doesn’t mean I support your poor choices. ![]()
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