Puff revamped his image and changed his music style. He started working with Drake and then his artists also started blowing up.

And 50 left the music industry.

The masses forgot about it overnight.

Talent and good music will outweigh a lot of s*** it doesn’t matter what it is

R Kelly exemplifies this

He ruined UOENO though even outside the creepy ass bars

Just a trash verse

those two things came out way before social media was as messy as it is today. also he sits in a weird spot where his legacy isn't rly on the line either way.

Not at all because his s*** caught up to him at the end

Tbh his behavior was openly known for years and nobody did anything

Kept having hit records and the label ignored it

He was creeping round high schools for years

It’s pretty much understood in Florida that Ross became a CO to become a dirty cop and help older street niggas he knew

And this is the reason why Kellz got smoked back in 2019.

He was able to get away from it during the 2000s, because TV was able to toss that story away as fast as they were reporting it.

But on the internet deep in it's fast age, it stays there forever

Crazy co-signs and connections was definitely a factor.

Jay-Z is like the biggest rapper ever and they have tons of collabs.

Diddy obviously a major figure before being disgraced recently and they were tight.

He’s always been cool with Wayne.

Him and Kanye had a good working relationship including the iconic DIAND verse.

When T-Pain was THE hook guy Ross was one of his more frequent collaborators through the Florida/Khaled connection.

He latched onto Drake and always had that connection until last years beef.

He signed Meek and Wale, each of whom were pretty successful artists and they always stayed pretty loyal to him.

And then musically no one ever really took his lane as the mafioso rap mainstream guy.

American consumers don't have any integrity. Him being an officer just isn't a big deal to people.

I always assumed he was a dirty CO

Ppl jus dont understand how prison and organized crime work

Yall ruining grapes with this s***. Just say rape

Who is this lady that can wrap her legs around his waist? Angel Reese?

Uncs still listen to R Kelly, sadly

Man what lmaoo

Cuz Rick Ross never pandered to the whites

Not knowing who his uncle is

That lyrics was blown out of proportion over the years tbh. It wasn’t all that at the time.

Got people thinking of atrocities when they go to get a sweet summer fruit snack

Na the smoking gun exposed him back in 2008 right after he was killing s*** with trilla I felt bad for bro the whole internet was killing him

Exactly. Always the formula