Timbaland defends R. Kelly: “Don’t mix music up with personal”
thefader.comTimbaland was a guest on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast Club Shay Shay last week. The conversation eventually turned to R. Kelly, the popular R&B artist convicted of sex trafficking, racketeering, child pornography, and child abuse in multiple states, and Timbaland agreed with Sharpe that it was possible to separate Kelly’s music from his crimes. “R.
Kelly’s the king of R&B. We all know that, man,” Timbaland told Sharpe. “Everybody jump when you say ‘R. Kelly’… I’m like, ‘So we just gonna ignore his music that he gave us, that we all jam to?
No, we can’t do that.’ His art is his art, I ain’t gonna bash the man’s art. Read Next: Timbaland teases track with AI Biggie vocals “Don’t mix music up with personal,” he continued. “Music is a feeling that stands alone.
Music is something that don’t have no race, that brings people together. It don’t have no drama with it. It is a place of enjoyment, of feeling, so don’t bring drama into music.
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