On deeper, more spiritual recordings such as "Religious Love" and "Heaven If Your Hear Me," Kelly shows that he can balance the sacred and the profane more effectively...
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With the salacious 12 Play, R. Kelly established himself as one of the top R&B hitmakers of the mid-'90s, rivalled only by Babyface and Dr. Dre for overall consistency. 12...
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Record labels should cease and desist producing double CDs. Of the 28 entries on R. Kelly's latest, R., the master of incorporating neighborhood vernacular into grinding ear...
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At the beginning of the '90s, R. Kelly was seen as a lewd, lascivious soulman. By the end of the decade, he had stripped those adjectives away and was seen as a contemporary...
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A song utilised in the film Space Jam, "I Believe I Can Fly" is a lovely piece of work with pleasant lyrics juxtaposed against a soothing, swirling orchestral track. The EP...
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R. Kelly's fifth album, TP-2.com, is--in some senses--a sequel to his 1993 solo debut 12 Play. 12 Play's sexual romps "Bump N'Grind," "Your Body's Callin'...
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R. Kelly tames his ambitions a bit on TP-2.Com, assembling a simple sequel to his classic 12 Play album from 1993 rather than another epic venture like his double-disc,...
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R. Kelly tames his ambitions a bit on TP-2.Com, assembling a simple sequel to his classic 12 Play album from 1993 rather than another epic venture like his double-disc...
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R. Kelly's debut album with Public Announcement from a year earlier, Born into the 90s, had been a fine new jack swing album, but it hardly foreshadowed the astonishing...
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One of the last popular New Jack groups, this East Coast unit had some smash singles in 1992 doing both conventional R&B/soul and hip-hop/new jack tracks. They did both...
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At the beginning of the '90s, R. Kelly was seen as a lewd, lascivious soulman. By the end of the decade, he had stripped those adjectives away and was seen as a contemporary...
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A new batch of tunes from acclaimed videographer R. Kelly can almost make Jacko’s burdens seem light. While accused pedophile MJ at least has the option of not singing about...
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R. Kelly was hardly a stranger to controversy in the early 2000s. In addition to being hit with 21 counts of child pornography in Chicago and 12 more in Polk County, FL, the...
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Creatively, R. Kelly came a long way since 1992. The Chicago singer started out his career with catchy, if conventional, new jack swing, but as the '90s progressed, he...
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Even an accused pedophile--that is, after all, R. Kelly’s current description--is entitled to praise the Lord on record. And the long tradition of God and Satan battling...
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On his follow-up to 2003's successful Chocolate Factory, scandal-plagued R. Kelly spins his notoriety for sympathy, acknowledging that he's a flawed man and a sinner, but he...
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Creatively, R. Kelly came a long way since 1992. The Chicago singer started out his career with catchy, if conventional, new jack swing, but as the '90s progressed, he...
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Unfinished Business is the sequel to 2002's The Best of Both Worlds, R. Kelly and Jay-Z's first collaborative record. The press materials made a point to refer to these 11...
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