As you may or may not recall, black feminists' #MuteRKelly stumbled last summer. As a result of some high profile black feminists protesting, Spotify took R. Kelly off its site. But it wasn't long before Spotify put him back on.
Then Dream Hampton's serial documentary came out this month and put faces to the young black girl victims.
And now we've won.
R. Kelly has been dropped by his music label
Then Dream Hampton's serial documentary came out this month and put faces to the young black girl victims.
And now we've won.
R. Kelly has been dropped by his music label
FROM BLOOMBERG NEWS
"Sony Corp.’s RCA music label has scrubbed R. Kelly from its lineup after a documentary series renewed the furor surrounding allegations of criminal sexual misconduct.
As of Friday morning, R. Kelly was no longer featured on RCA’s website. Billboard reported that the artist and Sony had agreed to part ways in the wake of the Lifetime series “Surviving R. Kelly,” which included accounts from his alleged victims.
Representatives for Sony didn’t respond to requests for comment from Bloomberg, and R. Kelly couldn’t immediately be reached."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-18/sony-s-rca-music-label-severs-ties-with-r-kelly-after-uproar?
I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that Hampton's series was also influential in getting Cyntoia Brown released. So congratulations to Dream Hampton and black girls everywhere.
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