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R. Kelly Lyrics Get Spoken-Word Treatment In Court

rippedfromtheheadlines.jpgYesterday R. Kelly’s lawyer, Ed Genson, objected to the prosecution entering a copy of his client’s 1998 album R. into evidence, saying that reading the album’s lyrics in the liner notes could unfairly prejudice the jury against Kelly. When asked by the presiding judge, Vincent Gaughan, just what would result in the jury being tainted, Genson opened the CD’s booklet and read lyrics to an unidentified song to the courtroom assemblage, a performance that “[reduced] prosecutor Shauna Boliker and everyone else within earshot to fits of giggles” and caused Kells to cover his face. The judge subsequently decided that the jury could have the CD, but that the printed lyrics would be blocked out, although I suspect that the “message” of “Half On A Baby” comes through loud and clear when it’s put to music, too. [The Kelly Chronicles]

 
By Maura at 10:15 AM on Tue Jun 3 2008
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  • alec_baldwin

    Good. I gets freaky with the braids.

  • Chris N.

    Hot damn, let me get the video camera!

  • alec_baldwin

    @Chris N.: One of the styles takes all night.

  • Chris N.

    Wanna braid my hair?

  • alec_baldwin

    @Chris N.: And that would be because I like to go about 80...

  • alec_baldwin

    @Chris N.: You gon' mess around and get a ticket...

  • Chris N.

    @cosmiclove: You sound like my kind of woman.

  • Oface

    @walkmasterflex: Or episodes of American Jail....which is an awesome trainwreck.

  • walkmasterflex

    @walkmasterflex: not that i watch these shows all the time or anything.

  • walkmasterflex

    @NeverEnough: because they're TRUtv now and only air archived clips of police chases and surveillance video, occassionally broken up by reruns of Cops.

  • alec_baldwin

    @Chris N.: Personally, I like it when my boyfriend tells me that I remind him of his Jeep. I especially like it when he asks if he can stick his key in my ignition.

  • Chris N.

    To be fair, R. Kelly's lyrics have always prejudiced me against him. But then, I'm apparently the only music journalist in America who isn't bewitched by poetic musings such as "I'm digging like a shovel all the things you do."

  • NeverEnough

    Why on earth isn't CourtTV covering this live? I'd take vacation time just to stay home and watch this.

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