His name quickly became the punch line to jokes about predatory sexual behavior. Kelly's music without thinking about his predicament. From ''Bump n' Grind'' (which begins, ''My mind's telling me no/But my body, my body's telling me yes'') to ''Feelin' on Yo Booty,'' it was nearly impossible to listen to Mr. The appearance of the videotape threatened to end a great career for this Grammy-winning R&B singer, especially since that career was built on songs that turn romantic declarations into dirty jokes, and vice versa. and through the grace of God, Rob's going to be O.K.'' Kelly (born Robert Kelly), declined to discuss them, but offered a message to his fans: ''Tell them that Rob's O.K. In January he was arrested in Miami and charged with 12 counts of possession of child pornography, including photographs of himself having sex with a minor. That tape, which surfaced in February 2002, has been widely bootlegged and sold by street-corner vendors, flea-market salesmen and even some record stores. In June 2002 he was indicted in Chicago on 21 counts involving child pornography after the authorities said he made a sexually explicit videotape with an under-age girl. That power has been put to the test during the last year and a half. Kelly's enormous appetite for adulation is matched only by his remarkable power to generate it.

He said: ''Y'all won't give it up for me? All right, I'll give it up for y'all.'' And soon everyone else joined in. This wasn't a concert, after all, it was a photography shoot for a magazine.Īnd so, while a few dozen assistants and stylists and hangers-on continued to assist and style and hang on, Mr. Kelly found himself onstage in a small Manhattan nightclub, singing a gorgeous, gentle version of the Sam Cooke classic ''You Send Me.'' When he finished, he looked up from the piano, expecting applause.

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