{"id":792046,"date":"2019-01-15T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=779290"},"modified":"2019-01-15T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:53:14","slug":"chance-the-rapper-removes-r-kelly-collaboration-from-streaming-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-removes-r-kelly-collaboration-from-streaming-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper Removes R. Kelly Collaboration From Streaming Services"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chance the Rapper<\/a> has removed his 2015 collaboration with R. Kelly<\/a>, \u201cSomewhere in Paradise,\u201d from most digital streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal, Pitchfork<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

The decision to pull the song comes after Chance appeared in the Lifetime docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly<\/em>, which delves into the accusations of sexual abuse numerous women have leveled against R. Kelly. The final episode of the series includes an interview with Chance \u2013 originally conducted by Cassius\u2019<\/em> Jamilah Lemiux \u2013 in which the rapper said he made a \u201cmistake\u201d<\/a> when he recorded \u201cSomewhere in Paradise\u201d with R. Kelly.<\/p>\n

While the song has been removed from most major streaming services, it is \u2013 as of this publication \u2013 still available on both YouTube<\/a> and Chance the Rapper\u2019s personal SoundCloud<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

Chance the Rapper is one of several artists to apologize for previously working with R. Kelly in the wake of the bombshell Lifetime series. Lady Gaga recently issued a statement<\/a> in which she said she stood by all sexual assault survivors and expressed regret for working with R. Kelly on her ARTPOP<\/em> track, \u201cDo What U Want (With My Body).\u201d Gaga also pulled the song from iTunes and \u201cother streaming platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, French band Phoenix apologized<\/a> for working with R. Kelly twice in 2013, inviting him on stage at Coachella and tapping him for the remix of their Bankrupt!<\/em> single, \u201cTrying to Be Cool.\u201d \u201cWe regret that we were not both more informed and more discerning when we worked with him previously,\u201d Phoenix said. \u201cWe fully support all victims of sexual abuse, and it\u2019s our hope that there will be a path to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Chance the Rapper has removed his 2015 collaboration with R. Kelly, \u201cSomewhere in Paradise,\u201d from most digital streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal, Pitchfork reports. The decision to pull the song comes after Chance appeared in the Lifetime docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly, which delves into the accusations of sexual abuse numerous women have […]<\/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-792046","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 12:13:55","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}