Common admits guilt over not denouncing R. Kelly earlier: “We failed our community as Black people”

ABC/Fred WatkinsCommon is the latest musician to publicly denounce R. Kelly, in light of the disturbing revelations made in Lifetime’s six-part expose detailing the singer’s reported crimes. 

Tuesday, the “Glory” rapper was spotted at LAX by TMZ and asked to share his thoughts on the Surviving R. Kellydocumentary, particularly on how the music industry was complicit in allowing Kelly’s alleged serial abuses. 

“If it wasn’t just black women who R. Kelly had been molesting and abusing, if it wasn’t just black women, he would’ve been attacked by the system in a different way,” Common told TMZ.

“And instead of trying to be like, ‘Let’s go try to