In June 2022, R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. As of January 2025, he is incarcerated at a federal prison in North Carolina.

Tinashe has spoken about the songs of hers that feature R. Kelly and Chris Brown, describing them as "embarrassing" and stating that she had no choice in having the two men appear on her music.

Back in 2015, while Tinashe was signed to RCA, she teamed up with Chris Brown for a song called “Player.” Shortly after, her R. Kelly team-up “Let’s Be Real Now” arrived. On Wednesday (Sept. 12), the ...

"You think I wanted [to do those songs]?" she asked on the Zach Sang Show in a new interview. "I literally block that R. Kelly song from my mind; I forget that it even exists." "That is so ...

Disgraced singer R. Kelly is back in the headlines after breaking his silence and singing in a new podcast interview that absolutely no one asked for. R. Kelly Breaks Silence in New Podcast Interview ...

Controversial rapper Ye West is up to his customary tricks, playing songs by disgraced artists during a listening party for his and Ty Dolla $ign’s new album ...

Tinashe is being more candid than ever about her artistic evolution and her controversial collaborations during her time with RCA, the label she left in 2019. Before speaking up, Tinashe appeared ...

Young women starting out in the music industry are often subject to the wits and wills of the powerful (usually) men above them, as we’ve seen time and time again from Miley Cyrus to Britney Spears to ...

More than half a million dollars in R. Kelly’s music royalties held by the Universal Music Group must be turned over to his sex abuse victims, a New York judge ruled. US District Judge Ann Donnelly ...