“Whoever’s acting like they didn’t know is lying,” an interviewee says about R. Kelly’s decades of sexual abuse. “Black women had been talking about this story since 1991,” another character observes. “‘Surviving R. Kelly’ accomplished making America listen to these stories.” A trailer for a follow-up docuseries, “Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning,” has dropped and sees commentators discussing Kelly’s crimes, the people who protected him, and the effect “Surviving R. Kelly” had on the culture and the titular R&B singer himself.

Kelly is currently awaiting trail for multiple charges of sexual abuse and misconduct in a Chicago prison. Seen by almost 27 million viewers, the Emmy-nominated “Surviving R. Kelly” aired last winter, rehashing Kelly’s history and his past child porn charges. “The hashtag #MuteRKelly saw the musician quickly dropped from his label, past collaborators disavow him and, seven weeks later, 10 felony counts of aggravated sexual assault involving alleged four victims led to his arrest,” The Hollywood Reporter recounts. “There have been a number of other charges brought against him since, including child pornography and kidnapping. As recently as last week, he was charged with bribery for procuring a fake ID for an unnamed female in 1994 — a day before his marriage to the late R&B singer Aaliyah, then only 15.”

As one commentator puts it in the “Part II” trailer, “This is not something [Kelly will] be able to sing his way out of.” The facts speak for themselves and we as a culture are finally beginning to listen to women. Hopefully Kelly won’t go unpunished for much longer.

The six-hour “Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning” will air as a three-night event on Lifetime, beginning January 2. Dream Hampton, Tamra Simmons, Maria Pepin, and Brie Miranda Bryant are among the executive producers. The docuseries is part of Lifetime’s Stop Violence Against Women Initiative.