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Clip From New R. Kelly Documentary Reveals Singer Liked To Pick Up Girls At Fast Food Restaurants

More Women Come Forward With Accusations Against R. Kelly
Prince Williams
By Sydney Scott · Updated October 24, 2020

The BBC’s new documentary R Kelly: Sex, Girls and Videotapes includes more disturbing allegations from those who know the R&B singer.

The network shared clips on Twitter featuring Kelly’s former business manager and former studio engineer, in which the pair discuss the singer’s troubling relationship with women and young girls.

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Speaking with Benjamin Zand, James Lee — Kelly’s former studio engineer — details how Kelly would visit his old neighborhood and nearby fast food restaurant to pick up women. “There was always women around,” Lee told Zand. “It’s like a revolving door.”

Lee told Zand that Kelly would mostly go to the “areas he grew up in” and “occasionally go to this McDonald’s” to find women, “Going to McDonald’s to pick up chicks, that’s what a 17-year-old does, you know?”

WATCH: James Lee talks to @BenjaminZand about R Kelly’s visits to McDonalds to pick up girls. R Kelly: Sex, Girls & Videotapes is available on @BBCThree now https://t.co/LNu2j2fihY pic.twitter.com/8LUFnapnER

— BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) March 28, 2018

Lee also reveals just how the singer’s song “Feelin’ On Yo Booty” came to be. The studio engineer says during the recording of the song, Kelly sat with a woman on either side of him in her underwear. “He’s got a girl in her underwear, bent over, and that was how that song was written.”

WATCH: R Kelly’s former studio engineer James Lee explains to @BenjaminZand how the singer wrote his song Feeling On Your Booty. R Kelly: Sex, Girls & Videotapes is available on @BBCThree now https://t.co/DAj3zCDluR pic.twitter.com/kQM3mwK70s

— BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) March 28, 2018

Kelly’s former business manager, Rocky Bivens, also appears in the documentary, discussing how he had to screen women before they met with the singer and often had to tell him not to pursue teenage girls. 

“There’ve been several times when I’ve had to say, like you know, ‘No, that’s not going to happen.’ You know, because of the age of the person. If I was involved, ‘How old are you?’ ‘I’m 16.’ ‘No, you gotta go.’ I didn’t care if he got mad at me because it was a choice with me. When it came to sex, it was sex to Robert. If a girl was in a room and she had a big booty, she had a big booty. If she was 15 or 20, she had a big booty to him. Period.”

WATCH: R Kelly’s former business manager Rocky Bivens discusses with @BenjaminZand the singer’s attitude towards sex and underage girls. R Kelly: Sex, Girls & Videotapes is available on @BBCThree now https://t.co/Nw1oSQSkDM pic.twitter.com/jyIdd0GNnU

— BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) March 28, 2018

In the same documentary, the singer’s ex-girlfriend, Kitti Jones, reveals that Kelly allegedly trained a 14-year-old girl to be his sex slave. 

Kelly has yet to respond to the documentary.

Those with access can watch the BBC documentary here.