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]

 
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  1. NeverEnough  |   Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008

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

  2. Chris N.  |   Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008

    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.”

  3. alec_baldwin  |   Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008

    @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.

  4. walkmasterflex  |   Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008

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

  5. walkmasterflex  |   Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008

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

  6. Oface  |   Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008

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

  7. Chris N.  |   Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008

    @cosmiclove: You sound like my kind of woman.

  8. alec_baldwin  |   Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008

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

  9. alec_baldwin  |   Posted on Jun 3rd, 2008

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

  10. Chris N.  |   Posted on Jun 4th, 2008

    Wanna braid my hair?

  11. alec_baldwin  |   Posted on Jun 4th, 2008

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

  12. Chris N.  |   Posted on Jun 4th, 2008

    Hot damn, let me get the video camera!

  13. alec_baldwin  |   Posted on Jun 5th, 2008

    Good. I gets freaky with the braids.

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