BY IVIE ANI • JANUARY 5 2019

On Thursday, a Twitter user asked Questlove why he declined to comment on R. Kelly for the documentary and he responded in now-deleted tweets, denouncing R. Kelly. “I always thought Kels was trash. My reason for declining the R.Kelly docu that I support 10000000 percent is I didn’t wanna be in the “good times” portion of the doc, like stanning for his “genius”. I was asked to talk about his genius. I do not nor have I EVER stanned for him.”

He added, “That quote makes it look like I’m protecting him. I’m thinking “damn I don’t wanna be the one guy I always am in documentaries fawning over someone I detest. So make ZERO mistake on my positioning.”

Shortly after the clarification, hampton responded, in a since-deleted tweet, saying, “I’m sorry that this quote has caused you grief. You didn’t want to talk about him, no one did. But I think that not talking abt him has been a kind of pass, which is what I said. Didn’t mean for you to stand out in that quote.”

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