Line #5 YMMV/RKelly


1	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: R. Kelly has had one during his live show, as Creator/AzizAnsari describes in his standup ''Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening.'' It contained a short break showing a video of him playing basketball, and goes back on stage without a mention of the reasoning behind the video.
2	* EclipsedByTheRemix: Despite the fact it contains the lyrics "It's the remix to 'Ignition'", many don't know that there's a non-remixed version of "Ignition". It's almost never played on radios either.
3	* HarsherInHindsight:
4	** Let's face it, pretty much all of his music now that he's a convicted sex offender. A lot of his past songs allude to him committing actions that he knew he was guilty of.
5	** R. Kelly, enraged in the Gayle King interview back in 2019, can somewhat display itself as this because he gave everyone thirty years of his musical career - Kelly then finds himself receiving 30 years in prison in 2022.
6	* MemeticMutation:
7	** It's the remix to ignition / [insert topic] edition / this line's here to setup the / punchline rhymes with ignition
8	** The favourite of children everywhere: "I believe I can fly / I got shot by the FBI / All I wanted was a chicken wing..."
9	** Any mention of R. Kelly these days will immediately be proceeded with a piss joke.
10	** "My mind's tellin' me nooooooooo...BUT MA BODYYY...MA BOOODYYYYY'S TELLIN ME YEEEEEEAAHUUUUUUUSSSS" [[labelnote:Explanation]] The opening lines to his song "Bump N Grind". [[/labelnote]]
11	*** "I don't see nothing wrong... with a little prison time"[[labelnote:Explanation]]The chorus of "Bump N Grind", edited by fans to allude to his guilty verdict and subsequent incarceration.[[/labelnote]]
12	** "Y'ALL KILLING ME WITH THIS SHIT!!!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]His outburst during his interview with Creator/GayleKing.[[/labelnote]]
13	*** "Robert." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Gayle King's calm attitude towards Kelly's behavior, which people found hilarious compared to his exaggerated emotional fits.[[/labelnote]]
14	*** The exaggerated crying he gives during Gayle King interview too.
15	*** "I'M FIGHTIN' FOR MY FUCKIN' LIFE!"
16	*** "I don't know how to hog tie people."
17	** [[Recap/SouthParkS9E12TrappedInTheCloset "...AND SO I PULL OUT MAH GUN!"]]
18	** It wasn't me![[note]]When his infamous sex tape with an underage girl was leaked, Kelly's only defense was expressly denying that he was the person in the video, [[ImplausibleDeniability even though he obviously was]]. This drew almost immediate comparison to Shaggy's 2000 hit song "It Wasn't Me," where Shaggy advises his friend who was caught cheating to use similar tactics. The term "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_defense Shaggy defense]] was even coined in response to Kelly's denial.[[/note]]
19	* NeverLiveItDown: His crimes against women and girls over the years will always overshadow any of his accomplishments in music.
20	* OvershadowedByControversy: Even people who aren't fans of him know about his brief marriage to Music/{{Aaliyah}} (who was fifteen at the time) and his arrest for [[{{Squick}} urinating on an underage girl]], and his subsequent acquittal despite the existence of video evidence, which many found to be a disgusting example of ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney. While Kelly's career was slowly going down by the late 2010s,[[note]]Spotify stopped promoting his music on the grounds of "hate content", while his concerts were being boycotted and radio stations stopped playing his music during the rise of the [=#MuteRKelly=] movement. That said, his albums still did pretty well in the charts, with his final album ''12 Nights of Christmas'' being the only one that could really be considered a bomb[[/note]] the bottom eventually fell out in 2019 following the release of the Creator/{{Lifetime}} documentary series ''Surviving R. Kelly'', which showed evidence and accusations of him running a sex cult, his attempts to cover up his sexual abuse allegations, the backstory behind the trial, and having sexual affairs with women who tended to be underage. The success of the documentary saw Kelly lose virtually all of his remaining fans, with many of Kelly's collaborators (such as Music/LadyGaga, Music/JayZ and Music/CelineDion), and many of those formerly close to him (his ex-wife Drea Lee and Sparkle) backing up the documentary and regretting working with him publicly, a search warrant was issued for his manager in Georgia, and RCA Records dropped him publicly. Ultimately, Kelly ended up being charged with 10 counts of sexual abuse. He also didn’t help things by going on a violent, hyperbolic rant in the middle of being interviewed by Creator/GayleKing (and at the same time made King a MemeticBadass for just calmly sitting there and not appearing the slightest bit flustered).
21	* SignatureSong: "I Believe I Can Fly", "Bump N Grind" or "Ignition (Remix)".
22	* SweetnessAversion: The overly sweet and vaguely inspirational "I Believe I Can Fly" for some people.

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