Strong statement, right? Follow me with this……

I’m going on the assumption that you are somewhat familiar with the plight of R Kelly. If not, I won’t go into any great detail, seeing that you must live in some outer reaches of space. To catch up, go here.

This situation has fascinated me the whole time it’s been going on. As most cases where black people are fucking up and making things difficult for me do. “Difficult for you?” you may be asking yourself. “How?” Well, when you live in a mid-western state like I do and you’re a somewhat approachable black person, also such as myself, it seems that people tend to ask you questions about things involving famous black people in the news. If it’s not Kobe, it’s Tiger. If it’s not Tiger, it’s Lil Wayne. Or T.I. Or Kanye. Or Obama. Or whoever. I still get asked about OJ every now and then. Which led me to the above statement.

The title “The New OJ” is something I found myself saying when a black person with some kind of level of fame does or says something absolutely ridiculous that makes black people, like myself, just shake their heads. Knowing that people are, in fact, going to ask me “What in the hell is wrong with that crazy nergo?!?” I first said it when Kanye West bum rushed the show on Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards, making black people everywhere breathe a huge sigh in preparation for the questions. However, he did give the world the phrase “Kanye Shrug“, so I’m almost willing to forgive. (Just ease up on the Auto-Tune next record….like don’t use it at all.)

But this….this is it. Mr. Kelly has, by all intents and purposes, gotten away with having urinal relations with an underage girl.  (Golf clap.)  It’s the American dream to get away with a major crime. BUT….most people that get away with a major crime don’t keep talking about it. Unless it’s some kind of book deal. People love talking about what they did wrong in books and reality shows.  Gotta keep the lights on somehow, I suppose.

This leads me to my comparison….

OJ Simpson, after being acquitted of killing his wife and her lover, wrote a book called “If I Did It“, where he talks about “if” he killed his wife, this is how he thinks it would have went down. Yeah. That’s right.  He took it there.  Fox News had a whole hour lined up just to talk to OJ about this book of hypothetical events. It didn’t go over very well. Sponsors pulled ads, affiliates refused to air the interview and people involved with the case hit the roof. Fox News ended up pulling the interview and the publisher pulled the book from shelves. It wasn’t a good look and put OJ back in the spotlight as “that guy that got away with murder whom we almost forgot about”. Later, OJ tempted fate again, and it didn’t end as well as he would have liked.

And I can see this happening to R. Kelly. After getting off on child porn charges, Mr. Kelly put out “Untitled”, an album that has a song called “Number 1″ AND a song called “Be my Number 2“……just think about that for a second. Don’t believe me? Hit the links….I’ll wait.

Wow….sounds like subject matter that you should be exploring after allegedly laying up with a little girl? I can only think that R. Kelly knows he has a problem and really,  REALLY wants to get caught. Either that or he really is oblivious to how something like this looks to people. He might tempt the fates again, thinking that he’s untouchable and end up like OJ. I don’t know. I will say that it’s more likely the latter.

Strive to be number 1, Kells……

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