Rapper Yo-Yo remembers an inappropriate encounter with R. Kelly.
Saturday night time (January 19th), TMZ caught up with veteran emcee Yo-Yo as she entered the Trumpet Awards on the Cobb Vitality Performing Arts Middle in Atlanta. Naturally, the outlet introduced up the subject R. Kelly and the controversy surrounding the newly-minted Surviving R. Kelly documentary sequence.
When prompted, Yo-Yo revealed that she often visited R. Kelly at his Los Angeles studio and that in a single occasion she introduced alongside her daughter who would later inform her mom that one the members R. Kelly’s camp put the singer’s quantity in her telephone.
“I really went to hearken to his music and my daughter got here with me,” she tells the outlet within the clip. “The unhappy half was after we received house, my daughter stated, ‘Mother, somebody handed me R. Kelly’s quantity. I stated, ‘What!?’ She’s like, ‘Mother, please don’t say nothing. Because of this I didn’t let you know.’
“I didn’t say something, however you already know, it actually let me know there’s a actual drawback,” she continues. “It actually let me know that there actually is an issue as a result of with all that that was happening for that to nonetheless occur — and it occurred to me. I used to be considering I’m your buddy. I come right here with my daughter who’s over 21, however you don’t know my daughter’s age, and behind my again? You’ll slide my daughter your quantity? That’s simply bizarre to me, like a weirdo. Who would try this?”
Yo-Yo went on so as to add that she didn’t totally acknowledge the seriousness the problem at hand till it concerned her little one, including that she totally sympathizes with R. Kelly’s alleged victims.