R. Kelly has been harboring a secret all these years — he’s illiterate.
The Ignition hitmaker says that despite his musical talents, he can’t read and barely made it through grade school.
“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.”
In June last year a Chicago jury found the singer, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, not guilty of all 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl.
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