R. Kelly has jumped into the conversation about Chris Brown, and what he said about the embattled R&B star might surprise you.
Kelly, who has faced and overcome a wave of negative publicity for peeing on children, sees Brown as going through a comparable struggle in the wake of his 2009 Rihanna-beating incident, as well as several other recent incidents that haveled to Brown’s forced trip to rehab.
Brown is in that rehab now, working on anger issues. But Kelly doesn’t feel bad for Brown, but rather for his haters:
“The ones that’s talking about Chris Brown, or R. Kelly, or anybody that’s successful? I feel sorry for them, not Chris Brown, because he’s obviously one strong individual to be able to do what he’s done.
“He got knocked down a little bit and he climbed up. You know, that sounds like Ali to me. That sounds like Martin Luther King to me.
“That sounds like a lot of the greats that have walked this earth. It even sounds a little bit like Jesus to me.”
By comparing Brown to himself, and then to MLK and Jesus, Kelly is saying by extension that he is a god — which was never up for debate in the first place, so it’s silly to sully oneself with comparisons to Brown.
Kelly has been accused of child pornography, and married deceased singer Aaliyah when she was only 15. The marriage was later annulled after it was discovered Aaliyah had lied about her age, but a defiant Kelly recorded a track called “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number,” dedicated to her.
Recently, Kelly paid tribute to Nelson Mandela on The Arsenio Hall Show, sang about ketchup, relish and Frosted Flakes, as well as streamed his upcoming LP Black Panties.
Perhaps Brown and Kelly will make a track called “Don’t Tell Me I Can’t.” What they certainly will do is continue living their lives exactly as they were, despite how anyone feels.
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