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30 Years Stands, Supreme Court Next: Why R. Kelly’s Legal Fight Could Drag the Industry With Him
2025/12/15 Report

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In pop culture, a scandal can end a career overnight. In the music business, it’s rarely that clean—because even when the artist disappears, the paperwork doesn’t.

This week’s headline is brutally simple: a federal appeals court upheld R. Kelly’s racketeering and sex-trafficking convictions and his 30-year sentence


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, rejecting his challenges on multiple fronts.  The decision keeps one of the most infamous falls in modern R&B locked in place—at least for now.

But the more interesting question for fans (and for the industry) is what happens

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