When Robert Kelly was 3 years old, growing up poor with a single mother on Chicago's South Side, construction started on a building a few miles away in the center of town. The first meeting was on the ninety-ninth floor of the Sears Tower. The second and third meetings were at his favorite cigar bar. We met three times over three days in his hometown of Chicago. Kelly agreed to speak about his whole life without restrictions. He was eventually acquitted of that charge, and his career has continued uninterrupted, but for the most part he has evaded even the most basic questions that might help people understand what is true about him.įor this story, R. It is also the story of a man who has been publicly accused of multiple sexual offenses with underage women, and who stood trial for making child pornography. It is a story about the difficult places he came from and the ways they may, or may not, have shaped who he has become. It is a story about the remarkable, but also very strange, pop talent he has. This is a story about an entertainer named R.
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