Thing is, I, and many others, have known about what a piece of crap R. Kelly is for years. If you ever watched thew Boondocks, you've likely known. If you remember Aaliyah, you know he married her when she was 15, and produced her first album, titled "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number." People knew him to hang around playgrounds, middle school parking lots, and the like. And I know this, because people have said so, directly. He wasn't what you would call "subtle". And that's why I refused to buy any song with him on it. It's not just that he's a child rapist, it's that even his music sounds like he's hitting on little girls.
I know about the show Surviving R. Kelly - That's an important part of this as well, credit to the people involved with that, I applauded it at the time, I'm not trying to take anything away from their work. In fact, many of the people involved in that series have been after him for *years*, and they generally don't care who joins in, so long as he's away from children. If it's Avenatti, okay.