Well, he couldn’t read, but to keep it 100, many stars are not the sharpest pencil in the box:
R&B singer/songwriter R. Kelly revealed that despite his musical talents, he suffers from illiteracy and barely made it through grade school. The Grammy winner recently spoke at the Midwest Music Festival in Chicago, about the trials and tribulations of starting his career.
“When I was trying to make it out here, I already knew, and I was stubborn about it,” he said. “I don’t even read really and I’m not afraid to say that. My cousins and brothers used to tease me ‘you can’t even read right. How you think you’re going to come up?’ The only reason I graduated from grammar school is because I had a great jump shot. I went to high school and [my teacher] told me ‘you will one of the greatest writers of all time.’ I believed. You [have to] believe it. You can’t believe [anything] if you’re hating. You can’t achieve [anything] if you’re hating.”
He sounds ignorant from time to time, but his musical talent is simply undeniable. The word on the street is his manager is stealing from him right under his nose, and everyone in the Chicago music scene has been aware of this for years, but he ain’t got enough sense to do anything about it– and don’t get me started on pissing on a fourteen year old– I just can’t…
