R. Kelly Records Song for the Victims of the VA Tech Shooting
The AP quotes lyrics of the song as being along the lines of: "Rise up, when you feel you can't go on, rise up, and all of your hope is gone, rise up, when you're weak and you can't be strong."
Singer R. Kelly is best known for his hit song "I Believe I Can Fly", from the movie soundtrack "Space Jam" starring basketball great Michael Jordan. He is also no stranger to controversy. There have been allegations of R-Kelly engaging in sexual activity with under age girls and numerous civil suites filed against him regarding these charges.
In October 2006 a man named Henry Vaughn had filed a lawsuit against Kelly accusing him of assault, false imprisonment, and a breach of contract that claiming he was not paid song writing royalties. No charges had been filed in the case.
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7 Comments
Post a CommentThis is great! I didnt hear about this at at on the news. Thanks for your comment on my SVU story as well. Nice to see sistas holding it down.
Very good read, well written.
So real compassion or using tragedy to clean up self image? thanks for sharing.
Good news! Thanks!
Lyrics bring to mind an old Four Tops tune that helped me "rise up" many times in life. Guys do seem to lose their head when all those groupies throw themselves at them.
I love to read about people with such generosity of spirit and action. Thanks for bringing this to light.
Very interesting, thanks Lorraine!