Video footage from a latest episode of “Love and Hip Hop: Miami” confirmed Safaree Samuels going loopy on his forged mate Marcus Black, and followers are calling it his R. Kelly second.
Many instantly related the rapper, who not too long ago mentioned on the “Preserve It A Stack” podcast that seeing Nicki Minaj kiss Nas in a music video harm his coronary heart, with one of the iconic emotional explosions made by an entertainer in fashionable historical past.

“I’m preventing for my mom—king life, man. I’m preventing for my life, Marcus. They killing me. I’m preventing for my life,” Safaree mentioned in a rage in the course of the March episode. “These women. They only preserve speaking about me, and it’s not a sport. That is my life.”
A part of Samuels’ storyline this season is his love triangle between Amara La Negra and Eliza Reign. He dated Amara final season and even splurged on Rolex watches for her twin daughters. The 2 later fell out and now he has connected himself to Reign, who additionally occurs to be the mom of one among rapper Future’s eight kids.
The women had been within the midst of constructing a friendship when Amara, who had no clue about Eliza and Samuels courting, revealed that she had a tune coming with him. Eliza then revealed that Samuels instructed her he and Amara had been by no means collectively. With a view to assist his buddy decide, why he dates ladies in the identical circle, Marcus known as a sit-down.
“Whenever you gon minimize the crap bro? Whenever you gone knock it off?” he mentioned to Samuels.
After his outburst, Samuels storms out the glass door of the restaurant/bar the place the scene was being filmed, leaving Marcus sitting alone to make sense of what occurred.
He, like most of the viewers, made one apparent popular culture reference — linking the dramatic pangs of the Queens rapper to that of disgraced Grammy-award winner R. Kelly.
Instantly, Marcus picked up the cellphone to name somebody. He defined that he was sitting with Samuels considering that the 2 had been “about to have a breakthrough,” when all the things went left.
“He’s like no person ever will get to listen to my aspect of the story,” Marcus says, earlier than sharing, “He will get up and goes R. Kelly on me.”
Followers on social media couldn’t assist however drag that flamboyant rapper and father of two for his efficiency.
“R Kelly rolling over in his cell,” one particular person mentioned, whereas one other wrote, “Please cease airing these exhibits. Not the Robert Kelly line.” An Instagram consumer renamed him, “Okay Safaree Kelly.”
At one level, VH1 hopped within the feedback and tried to make clear, writing, “He’s so unserious,” however that didn’t matter, as folks raced to put up how lame and corny they thought Samuels was for saying the now notorious line.
“Ph—okay Boy Safaree & his dangerous R Kelly impression smh #LAHHM,” one X consumer tweeted.
Phuck Boy Safaree & his dangerous R Kelly impression smh #LAHHM pic.twitter.com/0CCGsFWA17
— RonnieTheOneandOnly (@LDHFab40) March 13, 2024
One other posted, “Did Safaree assume his R. Kelly in preventing for my life second was real looking or humorous? That is bizarre #LHHMIA.”
Like what on earth is occurring? Very consideration looking for
— PHOENX (@I_Am_Phoenx) March 12, 2024
In 2019, earlier than being convicted of RICO expenses linked to the sexual abuse of minors, R. Kelly was interviewed on “CBS Mornings” by Gayle King — and broke down as she drilled him with some exhausting questions on relationships with these accusing him of crimes.
He mentioned, “Stop enjoying. I didn’t do that stuff. This isn’t me. I’m preventing for my f—king life. Y’all killing me with this s—t.”
As he screamed that he had given the world 30 years of his profession, King calmly known as his identify, “Robert,” and inspired him in useless to settle down.
“Y’all making an attempt to kill me. You killing me man. This isn’t about music,” the “Pied Piper of R&B” mentioned earlier than lastly sitting and getting his make-up freshened up.
In the course of the sit-down, Kelly had two of his girlfriends with him, Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary. Each women fiercely defended him in the course of the interview with King.
Clary has since denounced the singer and acknowledged that she was abused by him and others.
Savage introduced in August 2022 that she was pregnant by the singer. The 26-year-old launched a 11-page e book (print size at 24 pages) and talked about being with little one on Amazon.
“Months later, I started anticipating extreme morning illness and was uncertain what was mistaken with my physique. I assumed I had contracted COVID-19, however essentially the most wonderful information of all was that I used to be anticipating,” she mentioned.
“It was a contented day however an incomplete time in my life,” she added. “Immediately I’m grateful to God for giving me essentially the most valuable present. Robert is extraordinarily excited in regards to the information that I’m having a child and feels unhappy that Robert won’t be able to be right here with us.”
Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean, disputed Savage’s declare on the time, telling TMZ Savage “is definitely not pregnant with R. Kelly’s little one.” The disgraced singer already had been jailed for months on the time of Savage’s child announcement.

A broke and destitute Kelly is presently in jail. He was convicted of three federal counts of manufacturing little one pornography and three counts of engaging a minor to interact in sexual exercise in Chicago and was sentenced in February 2023 to twenty years in federal jail, with one yr to run consecutive to the 30-year sentence beforehand imposed within the Japanese District of New York, in accordance with the Justice Division.
In 2021, the singer was convicted of 9 counts of a superseding indictment charging him with racketeering predicated on prison conduct together with sexual exploitation of kids, compelled labor, and Mann Act violations involving the coercion and transportation of ladies and women in interstate commerce to interact in unlawful sexual exercise within the New York federal court docket.