The Fall Out of R. Kelly: How R & B Fans Knew, Ignored & Even Covered-Up Multiple Sex Crimes (ALLEGEDLY)

I'm an 80's baby, black male in America. I grew up off Reed Rd in south Houston. Coming up, you knew a few things about sexual scandals. One thing for sure, if your favorite artist is the best in the business and evidence points to indecencies, you'll deny till they die. This was true about O.J. and M.J. Kell's was the same beast but a totally different album.

When Aaliyah first came onto the scene with Age Ain't Nothing But a Number everyone in school talked about how it was because of her husband, the then 27 year old R. Kelly. The accusation that he was the type of guy who had an appetite for young girls were always surrounding his career. People forget that before the Me Too Movement men just got away with this if they had a certain sense of untouchability. You would think that a black man in America, rich or not, famous or not, would be one of the first to go down for this. You'd be wrong. If you had a certain look. Could make a lot of money for a lot of people and didn't make too many splashes in public, the sick and perverted rich would embrace and protect you. Combine this with a loyal fan base, pre-social media and you have the perfect storm of reasonable doubt. Lets not forget the many men and women, young and old, who would say "She knew what she was doing. Probably came onto him for record deal". These were the kinds of thinking they needed to ensure they'd need not lift a finger to defend themselves.

When I was 20 years old, the emphamis Pee-Pee tape was circulating. Again, this was before twitter, facebook, youporn, tumblr, insta, snapchat, and more. This was during the last few years of VHS. That's right, back in the day, when there was a sex tape it was filmed and circulated on tape. That's where the name came from; video taping sex, getting the tape, putting it into a VCR, connecting it to another VCR and making copies. It was a slow process, but this tape was in such high demand people actually took the time off from bootlegging movies to make copies of this. This tape was making Blockbuster Video numbers.




A lot of people saw it, shared it and sold it. The weirdest moment in my life was when I was getting a haircut. Definitely one of my last ones, since I lost my hair in my mid 20's, and the barbers were talking about something or other. Now barbers blab about a lot of things. These men gossip harder than the stereotype placed on women. I mean, dudes talk. I usually tune it out and watch as the barber cuts my hair and hope he doesn't laugh too hard and fucks it up. Suddenly one of them said, "I have it right here". This was at Sharpstown Mall. Each barber left their current cuts to swarm over a mounted old 15 inch making sure to angle it away from the front glass entrance.

Yes consumers, they were watching the tape. Now did you catch that little tig bit about angling the view of the screen. They not only knew that showing porn in that setting was bad for business but it had to have dawned on some of them, if not all of them, that they were actually distributing kiddy porn. Once that nugget started to circulate, the evidence of the tapes began to disappear faster than they came. Now you would think that it was because these people didn't want to go to jail for possessing child pornography. Yes that was the main situation but part of them also were subconsciously protecting R. Kelly.

This man has had several accusations, appearances in court and all types of media coming after him from The Chappelle Show to the Boondocks. None of it stuck, once Aaliyah died it seemed like nothing would. Kell's even recently shared the stage with Lady Gaga. But in the 2000's this man seemed like a musical unstoppable force of nature.

Now that the Surviving R. Kelly documentary has come out, it feels like once again the walls are closing. There are a lot of people who I feel narrowly escaped the wrath of the Me Too Movement. Eminem, Peyton Manning, and for a long time I thought R. Kelly. Will this be the moment that takes down the Pied Piper of R & B? A name, by the way, that was the biggest confession to what the was being accused, in somes opinions.

I have yet to see the documentary but when I do I will post a Binge Review on the YouTube Channel. New videos are uploading every Thursday and Saturday. Stay turned. www.youtube.com/t3medias

The Orville Season 2 Episode 1 Recap of Ja'loja

Okay so the whole episode starts off on Bortus's need to be seen peeing by his friends and family. Lets just get that out of the way. then, we see that Captain Mercer and Kelly are still at odds with The Break-Up having the captain confessed that he is still in love with her and Kelly never actually admitting she was not even though she's seeing a new guy. The whole creeper vibe where Mercer is doing a flyby and gets caught was hilarious and yes sometimes we do that.

I don't know why but I feel like lieutenant Alara and the captain need to just hook up or become a thing it seems that even though there's a huge and I mean huge age difference those two characters seem to have a lot in common. At the least it would make Kelly go crazy.

Dr. Finn and Isaac the Android are going to hook up and it's going to be really nasty. I can only imagine what kind of computerized algorithms he's going to give her with all kinds of freaky pleasure.

Gordon has John helped him try to ask a new character out and at first it seems like he might have a chance but I noticed something that I kind of picked up on from the beginning she was a little interested in the captain which is going to be a cool dynamic but I'm still holding out hope about a Laura and the captain hooking up maybe season 3.

Isaac helping the doctor with her son getting into trouble and confessing her love for him which totally flew over his head was funny. I cannot wait to see that whole dynamic play out.

My theories Gordon is gay and he will probably hook up with the character Dan who has a bad taste of poetry. I also see Isaac programming himself to feel and fall in love. Hopeful that elara hooks up with the captain and it becomes a big disaster. And Kelly's new boyfriend is too perfect he might be a psychopath.

And if Gordon is not gay at the very least he should hook up with that simulation woman he talked to her at the bar. She seemed pretty cool.

Aquaman Movie Raises All Tides, Expectations, Man Of Steel 2 Dreams & Momoagasms The World Over

Taking Joy out on a New Years date to see the King of the Ocean, Jason Momoa in Aquaman. I love the effects the underwater battles. The usage of lights and colors was amazing. The thing most of all was that it raised the bar and expectations for the better. The chemistry with Momoa along with the rest of the cast was epic. How they justified Black Manta was also inspiring. I think it will make DC really consider using more superheroes and villain of color. This was a good time to the movies, one that deserves a lot of recognition and the hope that it forces Warners hand on making Man of Steel 2 with Henry.

At this point there are a lot of ladies who are Jason Momoa fanatics taking their kids to see Aquaman, more for themselves than anything else. "Sure son, lets see it again and again". Multiple Momoagasms.

This film should easily hit a BILLION

Worst Movies Of 2018 I Never Watched

2018 has been hit with a lot of reviews of what people call the "worst of the worst". I decided to take a different approach. When I go to a movie I'm hoping to be entertained. If I think I will not enjoy it, I usually do not waste my time. So there are a ton of films that came out in year of 2018 that simply passed on and have not regretted it. I saved a lot of time and money focusing on not watching something I know I won't enjoy. I'm not a fan of self destruction of my brain.

This then came becoming a list of movies that I did not see that to the ones who did suffer through became the worst films of the year. So I also went back and looked up their box office results to list them in the order of their floppiness.

Movie (Domestic Gross and Foreign Gross)

Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom - $416,769,345 | $888,174,715

Wrinkle In Time - $100,478,608 | $32,197,256

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - $54,509,683 | $115,342,993

The Predator - $51,024,708 | $109,517,426

I Feel Pretty - $48,795,601 | $45,743,825

Red Sparrow - $46,874,505 | $104,698,129

First Man - $44,891,255 | $55,369,863















Sherlock Gnomes - $43,242,871| $47,102,215

Robin Hood - $30,632,819 | $42,740,595

Mile 22 - $36,108,758 | $30,200,000

Winchester -$25,091,816

The Strangers Prey at Night - $24,586,708

Sorry To Bother You - $17,493,096

The girl in the spider's web - $14,841,338


Mortal Engines - $14,695,905 | $47,900,000

Action Point - $5,059,608

The Cloverfield Paradox - n/a


There is a chance for some of these films. Of course I will eventually see Jurassic World FK and Sparrow interest me but for the most part this list is a all out pass for me. 

2036 Origins Unknown Review & Comments

I watched Collider with Kristian Harloff interviewing Katie Sackhoff talking about their time as a couple, now as friends. When I saw her on the trailer of Origin Unknown that was the first thing that hit me was, I still haven't finished that interview.

After watching the Terminator, the one thing that hits me is that old saying, "There's no fate, but what we make". I bring that up because this movie made me think about artificial intelligence and the rise of the machines.

2036 Origin Unknown/Film synopsis

Following a deadly crash on Mars, Mackenzie Wilson launches a mission find out what went wrong. But when her ship's artificial intelligence takes control, they discover a sinister object on the surface of the red planet.

This movie makes us ask that question, do we put too much faith in these machine. Think about, if we make contact with beings from outer space, unless we're dealing with immortals we're not going to meet the actual beings we're going to meet their drones or probes or satellites. They will send their machines, as we do. We always send off the remote control car before the man. so is the next step of human evolution whatever we give to our machines?

So downloading everything that is human into a sentient machine. Is that the next level. This subject is still theorized and talked about. Is AI the enemy, are they our savior's or the cause of our deaths, this movie says the answer to both questions is Yes. This is the way for humans to live forever. The only way we'll meet other beings in the universe. Destroy the planet to save the planet. The destruction of ourselves to save our saves.

I was expecting this movie to show the alien, but they never do.  This movie made me think of Contact staring Jodi Foster as well. Alien was a no show, cop out. I give it up to Arrival, at least they had the guts. Then this movie does the same thing, saying that machines and humans are the same things "What Is Alive" all this stuff comes from the same universe. We're always putting ourselves inside of and merging with machines.

This movie kept me so clueless, I felt like it was time jumping as if it was a simulations. . This movie came out in June and I'm just now getting around it. and I'm getting a lot of comments from people who are really split on this movie. Already over 700 views and 20 comments. I'll share them with you and let you keep the conversation going.

More Spoilers by the way

Bob Belson1 day ago (edited)

BTW for answers - Mac died and ARTE recreated her for the purpose of traveling to unknown origin to meet the alien species that sent the Cube. He not only re created her with android tech . He enhanced her using magnetic pulse Technology from the alien cube . It apparenty took him a long time to re create her as he tells her this. He intimates that he took the best of "human " archetypes to re create her as well . He noticed that her and many others shared his quest for knowledge etc that many others of the species lacked and he clearly used this as a guide .. Therefore in the end the enhanced human that was Mac had all the best qualities of humans without the "fragile" make up and travelled with ARTE the AI to meet those from the galaxy that sent the Hyperlingk Cube. ..A deep plot ,and well acted . The martian shots really covered the bleakness of alien landscapes

LV-426 Devasher5 hours ago

Had to find some other other opinions about this movie. I watched about 15 minutes and fell asleep. I then watched another 15 minutes and couldn’t take it anymore. Very dull movie. 😴

I love Katie Sackhoff. She is aging well but this movie was not good. I felt like the movie was originally twice as long, but half of it was left out. I could not really follow what was happening. It was trying to be 2001, but it just did not work out. When it was over, I was thinking, "WTF did I just watch?"

The movie was great!!! It was too deep for you. Like a 2001 space odyssey movie It will become well liked over time and more popular as well.

Mistakes Every Gamer/Single Parent Makes

I've been playing Xbox Live, mostly COD with my clan for years. Before my 3 kids were born. My oldest is now 8. Ever since me and their mother divorced, I've made the same mistake that I swore I wouldn't. I've tried to game the way I use to do in my early years. Even before the divorce and baby number 2 gaming all night was going out of the window due to increasing responsibilities at work and my body telling me, "You're Not In Your Twenties Anymore". Every now and then one of the guys will scream out the old battle cry. . ."TILL SIX IN THE MORNING". This was a nod to an old R. Kelly song and something we use to do a lot. Ummm, gaming not that other thing he did.

You see, back then, it was nothing. We'd be on a winning streak, 32 rounds won in a row on my birthday is still the current record we've never broken. All hopped up on red bull and twinkies. It became so important we had to have little games within the game to stay on edge. If we won a round, who ever had 20 or more kills we would call that "Twanky" if the 3 or more of us on the squad had reached Twanky kills, we would call that Hostess since we were stocking up like the factory. We then had to eat a twinkie. We later shortened it to Host Twank. That began to become a problem the day we won 32 rounds in a row. There were a lot of sick soldiers that day. But still, we killed noobs till 6 in the morning.

Its now Christmas vacation in 2018 and the new game that we're addicted to is Players Unknown's Battleground or PUBG for short. Its impossible to win that many matches in a row since we're in a lobby with up to 100 players trying to kill you but we love this game. We haven't gone till 6 in the morning in years but 3 in the morning has become the new target. Last night, I made it to the milestone. We had fun. We all also had work in the morning. I am a Real Estate broker, so is another member and one guy works on boats. Even though I did not physically have to go to any homes or meet clients, I was in between a few deals that needed my attention online or on the phone. My fiancee was pulling a double so from 9 in the morning when I attempted to sleep past till 1 in the afternoon I was all alone. Even with her help, I try not to put off my responsibilities. I'm their father and they need to know I'm there for them.

Oh, i forgot to mention, I also do movie reviews and i thought it to be a brilliant idea to finish watching the new movie on Netflix, Bird Box staring Sandra Bullock (who is so damn fine) and record my review on my youtube channel T3Medias (please subscribe). That had me up past 4 a.m.

38 years old, I tried to keep the room as dark as possible so that the kids would still think it night time. First mistakes. My oldest wanted to watch cartoons, I let him. My other two joined him and watched the tv and me sleep. When I know they are all up, my instincts take over and sleep, no matter how tired, is impossible. I'm too much of a paranoid person to let them roam around. Being a single dad is more about staying out of trouble and gloating when your ex messes up. I don't know when I finished breakfast and I felt the pain of bad eating move from my feet to my brain the whole day. The juice was not worth the squeeze at this very moment but when I was in the moment earlier it felt good.

Your ability to give your kids the attention and patience they deserve is limited even more in this state. I constantly had to keep my emotions in check.I just gave love advise to a friend of mine who's dating a single dad who also loves his gaming. She doesn't understand it. From what I could tell, he puts gaming to high up on and too close on the priority board next to his children. That's not good for anyone.

Eat right, stay fight and sleep. When my gamer pals are done for the night we shout out "I'm Calling It" say Good Games and log off. Don't wait till you have a few bad rounds to call it a night, when your body has had enough, you may be able to push through but if you are a single parent or a parent in a marraige about to watch the kids by yourself in the morning, give up the ghost.

But who the hell are we kidding, we both know you're not going to listen. ONE MORE ROUND!

Bird Box Is The Happening Done Right & Blindness (2008) Movie Done Wrong | Short Review

My overall impression of this film was that it reminded me too much of things I've seen before. Blindness and The Happening. I hate it when a build up of what the monster looks like is never fulfilled and overall it just felt like an amalgon of stories told repeatedly before. It's still a decent film and I recommend a view. Don't expect more than what you've seen before. The majority of what I felt about this film is on my youtube channel. Click Above to see my full review.

Plot:
When a mysterious force decimates the population, only one thing is certain -- if you see it, you die. The survivors must now avoid coming face to face with an entity that takes the form of their worst fears. Searching for hope and a new beginning, a woman and her children embark on a dangerous journey through the woods and down a river to find the one place that may offer sanctuary. To make it, they'll have to cover their eyes from the evil that chases them -- and complete the trip blindfolded.