It was A ‘Mistake’ Recording Song With R. Kelly - Chance The Rapper
He apologized in a tweet to “survivors for working with him and for taking this long to speak out.”
Chance The Rapper believes that producing a song with R. Kelly was a “mistake,” he revealed Saturday in a scathing documentary series detailing a litany of sexual assault allegations against the rhythm-and-blues musician.
He tweeted after the quote was reported that his words were “taken out of context,” without further explanation. But he also said that “any of us who ignored the R. Kelly stories were doing so at the detriment of black women and girls.” He also tweeted an apology to all of R. Kelly’s “survivors for working with him and for taking this long to speak out.”
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Both Chance and R. Kelly are Chicago natives and have appeared on stage together. The Grammy winners collaborated on the song “Somewhere in Paradise” in 2015.
“Making a song with R. Kelly was a mistake,” Chance, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, said in the final installment of the six-part, three-night series on Lifetime “Surviving R. Kelly,” Rolling Stone reported. The rapper explained to interviewer Jamilah Lemiuex: “I didn’t value the accusers’ stories because they were black women.”
Chance has not provided an alternate explanation for the quote.
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