R. Kelly and Diddy have one thing in frequent … each males have been accused of racketeering and intercourse trafficking — and although the 2 aren’t precisely mates, Kelly says he feels for Diddy, who’s at the moment on trial, and says Black entertainers as an entire are below siege by the feds.

TMZ caught up with certainly one of Kelly’s legal professionals, Beau Brindley, who spoke to us about his well-known shopper, who was simply positioned in solitary confinement after receiving demise threats from white supremacists in a federal jail in North Carolina.

Brindley factors out Kelly and Diddy aren’t mates — and “removed from it” — however Kelly nonetheless has sympathy for Diddy over his present scenario … as everybody is aware of, Diddy is dealing with many years behind bars if convicted on racketeering, intercourse trafficking and different fees at his federal prison trial in NYC.

The lawyer then goes after legislation enforcement … telling us the feds are particularly concentrating on Black entertainers and judging them on their sexual preferences. He says the feds are abusing prison statutes by prosecuting them for what occurs behind closed doorways.

Brindley additionally talked to us about wanting Trump to pardon the R&B singer. He says he is hopeful Kelly makes the president’s pardon checklist and thinks Kelly may need a very good likelihood since Trump is aware of what it is prefer to be on the federal radar.

As we reported this week, Brindley filed a movement asking for Kelly to be launched from jail after discovering white supremacists had been plotting to allegedly homicide his shopper. Jail officers put Kelly in solitary confinement for his personal security after the extremist group additionally threatened to poison his meals, making Kelly too paranoid to eat. However, Brinley says, he needs Kelly out of isolation and jail altogether, requesting {that a} choose grant Kelly house confinement. The choose has but to rule on the movement.

In 2021, Kelly was convicted of racketeering and intercourse trafficking at his New York federal trial. A 12 months later, he was discovered responsible of kid pornography and enticement of minors for intercourse in an Illinois federal court docket. He is now serving a mixed 31 years in jail.