{"id":480507,"date":"2019-01-05T13:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=775431"},"modified":"2019-01-05T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:56:36","slug":"chance-the-rapper-making-a-song-with-r-kelly-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-making-a-song-with-r-kelly-was-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper: \u2018Making a Song With R. Kelly Was a Mistake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chance the Rapper<\/a> admits he made a \u201cmistake\u201d when he recorded a song with R. Kelly<\/a> in the final episode of the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As both the rapper and the R&B singer are musical icons in their native Chicago, their paths have crossed on numerous occasions: During Chance the Rapper<\/a>\u2019s Lollapalooza set in 2014, held in the Windy City, he brought out Kelly as a surprise guest<\/a>. \u201cMake some noise for the Pied Piper of R&B,\u201d he told the crowd.<\/p>\n

The following year, Chance the Rapper made a cameo in Kelly\u2019s \u201cBackyard Party\u201d video<\/a> and collaborated with the singer on \u201cSomewhere in Paradise<\/a>.\u201d However, in an interview that features in Surviving R. Kelly<\/em>, Chance said that in hindsight he regretted working with Kelly.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking a song with R. Kelly was a mistake. I didn\u2019t value the accusers\u2019 stories because they were black women,\u201d Chance the Rapper told Cassius<\/em>\u2018 Jamilah Lemieux. \u201cI made a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether Chance\u2019s comments were recorded in accordance with Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> or if it was unreleased footage from an unrelated interview.<\/p>\n

While artists in the hip-hop and R&B community were reluctant to appear on camera for Surviving R. Kelly<\/em>, the six-part docuseries credited Vince Staples for calling out Kelly as a \u201cchild molester\u201d in a post-Coachella interview that went viral<\/a> and helped reopen the national conversation about Kelly.<\/p>\n

One notable artist who sat down for Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> was John Legend, who said of his appearance on the docuseries<\/a>, which concludes Saturday night with two final episodes, \u201cI believe these women and don\u2019t give a fuck about protecting a serial child rapist. Easy decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chance the Rapper admits he made a \u201cmistake\u201d when he recorded a song with R. Kelly in the final episode of the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly. As both the rapper and the R&B singer are musical icons in their native Chicago, their paths have crossed on numerous occasions: During Chance the Rapper\u2019s Lollapalooza set […]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 06:39:20","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}