{"id":481064,"date":"2019-01-18T11:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=781238"},"modified":"2019-01-18T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:47:17","slug":"r-kelly-rca-to-sever-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/r-kelly-rca-to-sever-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly, RCA to Sever Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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R. Kelly<\/a> and his label, RCA, will finally sever their ties after weeks of protests and pressure following the airing of the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> and years of sexual misconduct allegations against the singer. Additionally, celebrities including John legend, Lady Gaga, Chance the Rapper, Meek Mill and Jada Pinkett Smith have spoken out against Kelly. Billboard<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>first reported the news citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n

Reps for RCA and its parent company, Sony, did not return Rolling Stone\u2019s<\/em> requests for comment immediately. A lawyer for Kelly declined to comment. Kelly\u2019s name is no longer on RCA\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s relationship with the label dates back more than 25 years. His group, Public Announcement, released an album on Jive (then a subsidiary of BMG) and after he went solo, Jive released a string of platinum- and multiplatinum-selling albums by the artist. When Sony purchased BMG, Jive fell under the Sony umbrella and was eventually folded into RCA. Kelly released his first RCA record, Write Me Back<\/em>, in 2012.<\/p>\n

Pressure has been mounting for the label to drop the artist since the advent of the #MuteRKelly campaign in the summer of 2017 \u2014 which came years after video of Kelly allegedly having sex with and urinating on an underage girl came to light in 2002; he was acquitted in 2008. Allegations of false imprisonment and sexual manipulation against the singer have arisen in recent years, and Rolling Stone<\/em> detailed one woman\u2019s story<\/a> in late 2017.<\/p>\n

Since Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> aired, an online petition<\/a> for the label to cut its ties to Kelly has garnered nearly 111,000 signatures. Additionally, protesters gathered around New York\u2019s Sony building on Wednesday of this week.<\/p>\n

Until now, both RCA and Sony have stayed silent about Kelly\u2019s status<\/a> on the label. \u201cIt seems a little defiant to me,\u201d Kenyette Tisha Barnes, a co-founder of the #MuteRKelly campaign, told Rolling Stone<\/em> last week. \u201cRight now, our petition has over 75,000 signatures and each one of those signatures are hitting the inboxes of executives at [RCA\u2019s parent company] Sony and RCA, and yet they have not completely divested. That, to me, is just shocking, especially when I\u2019m sure R. Kelly is not one of their largest-selling artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story is developing.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

R. Kelly and his label, RCA, will finally sever their ties after weeks of protests and pressure following the airing of the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly and years of sexual misconduct allegations against the singer. Additionally, celebrities including John legend, Lady Gaga, Chance the Rapper, Meek Mill and Jada Pinkett Smith have spoken out […]<\/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-481064","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 19:12:20","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\/481064","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=481064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}