R Kelly

'number one hit' is a great great song al

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KpwASavVEE

ship "number one hit" is a ~double entendre~

xp yeah and it rules

Love that leather coat.

^^^incred performance

lol

"be my #2" is probably my favorite song kells has made in the past couple years, can't believe i forgot about that one. xpost

is anyone else listening to Love Letter? right now i especially like... Love Is (duet with K. Michelle)

― /\/K/\/\, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:26 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Played this album for the first time today, and then played this track on repeat about a dozen times.

Oh, hey, that's a pea coat.

you guys, i just picked up this album today and hoooollly shit, instant end-of-yr top ten material

so fucking good

this piece gets it right:
http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/r-kelly-love-letter-12161001

yeah, was thinking along similar lines to that review. this album is v.v.g.

how is an R. Kelly more palatable to you than a Chris Brown?

one is v v talented and one is not?

i mean, both of them are total knobs, obv

i love love this so far

http://i55.tinypic.com/pnxc.png

this album is so great! title track is my favorite thing he's done in years. lots of these songs sound like they should be hit singles -- wonder if any of them will succeed, or are they too out of step with the times?

too out of step methinks ;_;

the stretch from "taxi cab" --> "radio message" --> "when a woman loves" --> "love is" is just one of the best things i've heard all year, just absolutely stunning

yeah, that run is incredible. love the way the first four tracks flow, too. very well sequenced lp.

"radio message" is so cheesy and so great

I don't necessarily love this yet but I like it. have only had a few listens though. his voice sounds great, some of the material doesn't grab me as much as the rest. "Taxi Cab" is my favorite so far even if it is a bit incongruous with the rest.

i like how "taxi cab" is one of the four or whatever mj tributes on the album but is secretly the best of them by avoiding the obvious/kinda played out off the wall/thriller moves and going for angsty bad-era balladry "dirty diana"-style

first half is great, (as said before obviously) 2nd half doesn't interest me at all. the MJ tributes are sweet, i think he sounds more like MJ than Jackson on that new fake album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBJ5HP3ah10

<3 <3 <3

love that

all it takes is one little kiss and that means STOP

nice!

<3 kellz

Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy interviews R. Kelly, pretty good stuff

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/r-kelly/

yeah, really liked that

here's will's version of "the world's greatest" that is mentioned in the interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTrgF7Dakvw

fantastic interview

OLDHAM: Seven days on a boat . . .

KELLY: I met some interesting people. I met this lady, man. She reminded me of the lady from Titanic [1997]. She had written Broadway plays. She was, like, 81. But she was actually living on this boat.

OLDHAM: She had a suite?

KELLY: Yeah, she had a suite and she just traveled. But one night she got on the piano and started to play and we sat and drank and talked. Her spirit was unbeliev able. White lady. Martha something . . . Unbelievable lady. She took me back to her room and wanted me to meet her husband. Me and my guys all went. We had a ball on that boat, man.

:-)

She took me back to her room and wanted me to meet her husband.

threesome?

there was a different joke if you read to the end or the para

or of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpTEOaJnkgI

this is nice, idk what it is

oh my god the track "Spendin Money" off the R. double album is so incredible
if he had trimmed this down to like 50 minutes it would be amazing

http://www.twitvid.com/WCXI6

is it weird this was not in top 77?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxG1CmHT3d4

(same as twitvid)

R. kelly is massively underrated on this board

I need to read his new memoir:

"As the film credits started to roll, I couldn't move. I burst into tears. People walking past me patted me on the back, trying to console me. 'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.

But I was also crying because I remembered a Valentine's Day -- when a helicopter dropped a rainfall of roses -- that had come and gone ... My marriage had died. And there was nothing I could do to bring it back."

A rainfall of roses!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ONxUdkyOL._SS500_.jpg

oh shit that's out already? sign me up

ASS SOUL: THE DIARY OF ME

really nice, thoughtful piece at the nyer on this:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/08/r-kellys-revealing-auto-hagiography.html

i've never read all that much about him, so didn't know even some of the sadder, biographical details. i can't remember if the book's out, is anyone reading?

was going to post something in the comments, but it looks like the first guy already called him out:

Correction: Bidget's husband isn't a midget. She cheats on her husband with a midget.

book came out last month. dunno why I haven't ordered it yet.

new song is good : https://soundcloud.com/r-kellyofficial/r-kelly-genius

Its v nice

http://instagram.com/p/e-ps0kIkRg/

Slate interview with DeRogatis. Here's the crucial quote, for me:

How long did you work on the story?
Nine months. It came to me in early November.

What was the reporting process like? Was most of that time spent trying to get people to talk?
Most of that time was spent, post–Hulk Hogan and Gawker, finding a media outlet that was willing to run it. I’ve been working with BuzzFeed since Wednesday afternoon, and those were 12-plus–hour days every single day until this morning.

Yeah, that's pretty telling.

Sterl is a pretty sharp guy about a lot of other things on ILX and still posts occasionally. I would assume he's fully ashamed of his R Kelly defenses? He never struck me as creepy whenever I ran into him in person.

― El Tomboto, Monday, July 17, 2017 4:07 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because you never broached the topic of having sex with minors?

Typically the icebreaker I lead with.

What is the thread you guys are talking about?

R. Kelly busted for teenie pr0n

Sterl's position appears to be that consent laws are arbitrary when it comes to age

tbf they are pretty arbitrary but most reasonable people err on the side of protecting potential victims

How old is fifteen really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75XKGVwGEt4

This underage sex cult news has been around for years btw... Back in 2013 there was an article on villagevoice of how R Kelly had a large amount of civil and criminal lawsuits that have been filed by girls aged 13-16 that he has been acquitted for by the justice system or settled out of court for (presumably) large sums of money and how allegedly Kelly had the girls recruit other girls their age (13-16) and had sex with many of them. Sad it took so many years to confirm the story.

today on Facebook R Kelly (or at least, his team) shared an interesting picture of him with Nelson Mandela comparing their struggles through adversity

ffs

...

http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/r-kelly-raised-alleged-victim-since-she-was-14-or-15.html

woman denying she is being coerced:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/entertainment/joycelyn-savage-r-kelly-father/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool

"I haven't been in contact because..."

When asked about her current whereabouts, if she has roommates, or if she’s free to leave, however, all she would say is “I wouldn’t want to speak on that.”
http://www.stereogum.com/1952502/r-kellys-alleged-captive-speaks-out/video/

Sounds legit

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/November-2017/The-Lonely-Crusade-of-Jim-DeRogatis/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/1863ed90-cb3d-42af-ab07-e922caac6452

Fresh allegations have also arisen against the singer, claiming he “knowingly and intentionally infected” a 19-year-old woman with an STD.

fuck this guy forever

https://pitchfork.com/news/women-of-color-of-times-up-call-on-rca-records-ticketmaster-more-to-cut-ties-with-r-kelly/

the first 2 sentences of the response (from kelly's management):

Kelly supports the pro-women goals of the Time’s Up movement. We understand criticizing a famous artist is a good way to draw attention to those goals—and in this case, it is unjust and off-target.

Dropped from Chicago (UIC) concert

I looked the other way/supported/excused this guy for so long and I feel so guilty about it.

19-minute song sounds like the walls are closing in.

Also sounded like he didn't want to sit on his hands instead of competing with Scorpion flows.

It's like the #MeToo 'Supper's Ready'

may the survivors finally find peace

Let's see what the sentence is. A few other cases still pending, I believe

Yep, more federal charges await in Chicago and local cases in Illinois and Minnesota.

Good

https://apnews.com/article/r-kelly-sentencing-df9bbb51b5f991c612108644c0e18058

30 years. Federal prison.

Should be longer, but I'm thankful his many victims are finally seeing some justice.

Kanye or Kendrick feature coming up.

Oh my god, he admit it!

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/unauth/r-kelly/i-admit-it/