Benzino Says R. Kelly Shouldn't 'Rot In Jail For 30 Years' And Deserves A Second Chance: ‘It's Legal In America'
Hip-Hop OG Benzino recently weighed in on the current circumstances of jailed disgracecd R&B singer R. Kelly saying he deserves a second chance.
"I know that [Elvis Presley], a lot of motherf****s was f*****g with young girls to keep it 100, right," he said on an episode of 'We In Miami' podcast. "I'm not into that, again the legal age is 16 years old, so does that make it right if [someone] does it?"
When the 58-year-old asked, "If it's legal, does it make it right," many of the women, also guests on the podcast, responded, absolutely not. "No, it's gross," one female guest said.
"But it's legal in America," Benzino replied. "So why the f**k is R. Kelly doing all this time because they're 14, 13 - two years younger - you don't think that the people who cleared it for 16 years old, didn't know, they're f*****g with 13 and 14 [year olds] too?"
"Even to make the age that young, to be the law — you already know they going under that," the rapper stated.
"I'm not condoning it [because] f*****g with little girls is sick," the former co-owner of 'The Source' magazine clarified. "It's sick. But I don't think R. Kelly should rot in jail for 30 years either."
Benzino, born Raymond Scott, also highlighted that the case ignores the fact that R. Kelly, real name Robert Sylvester, was molested as a child, and was exploited in documentaries that people "made money off of."
According to the record producer, the parents and the girls allegedly knew what they were doing with the Chicago native, insinuating than an "uneducated" R. Kelly may have been the one taken advantage of.
