{"id":24110,"date":"2019-05-22T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1043539"},"modified":"2019-05-22T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:30:00","slug":"r-kellys-ex-wife-drea-opens-up-in-growing-up-hip-hop-atlanta-trailer-he-cracked-me-but-he-didnt-break-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/r-kellys-ex-wife-drea-opens-up-in-growing-up-hip-hop-atlanta-trailer-he-cracked-me-but-he-didnt-break-me\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly&#8217;s Ex-Wife Drea Opens Up in Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta Trailer: &#8220;He Cracked Me, But He Didn&#8217;t Break Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.451669595782\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019422\/rs_634x934-190522082257-634-growing-up-hip-hop-ch-052219.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta\" alt=\"Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">WEtv<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.744680851064\">\n<p>The drama is just getting started for <em>Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta<\/em>. E! News has your exclusive first look at the third season of the WEtv reality show, below, featuring <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/r_kelly\">R. Kelly<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s ex-wife <strong>Andrea &#8220;Drea&#8221; Kelly<\/strong> and her three children, <strong>Buku<\/strong>, <strong>Kyd<\/strong> and <strong>Jaah<\/strong> moving back to Atlanta. And now that they&#8217;re breaking their silence as R. Kelly continues to make headlines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He cracked me,&#8221; Drea says in the trailer. &#8220;But he didn&#8217;t break me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Buku is preparing to step out on her own, away from the shadow of her father, and try to establish herself as a vocal artist.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"55.611486486486\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.5405405405405\">\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like to be R. Kelly&#8217;s child. I only know what it&#8217;s like to be his ex-wife,&#8221; Drea says.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer below also features <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/bow_wow\">Bow Wow<\/a><\/strong> dealing with the fallout of a dispute with then-girlfriend <strong>Kiyomi<\/strong>. &#8220;You gotta learn how to control you,&#8221; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/snoop_dogg\">Snoop Dogg<\/a><\/strong> tells Bow Wow in the trailer.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>Look for <strong>Da Brat<\/strong> to try and reform her image and finances after prison and bankruptcy. She&#8217;ll join forces with <strong>Debra Antney<\/strong> to create Artist Boot Camp in an effort to develop young musical talent in Atlanta. Debra&#8217;s godson <strong>Brandon Barnes<\/strong> returns for revelations as <strong>Ayana Fite<\/strong> goes on a warpath to after Brandon tries to crack the family circle. Meanwhile, <strong>Waka Flocka Flame<\/strong> and wife <strong>Tammy Rivera<\/strong> return to Atlanta after their dream wedding. Is he retired or what?<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer above for more.<\/p>\n<p><em>Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta<\/em> premieres Thursday, June 13 at 9 p.m. on WEtv.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1043539\/r-kelly-s-ex-wife-drea-opens-up-in-growing-up-hip-hop-atlanta-trailer-he-cracked-me-but-he-didn-t-break-me?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEtv The drama is just getting started for Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta. E! News has your exclusive first look at the third season of the WEtv reality show, below, featuring R. Kelly&#8216;s ex-wife Andrea &#8220;Drea&#8221; Kelly and her three children, Buku, Kyd and Jaah moving back to Atlanta. And now that they&#8217;re breaking their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:24:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}