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R. Kelly
R. Kelly

   

Ever since Ray Charles wailed the sanctified booty call of "I Got a Woman," gospel has been a volatile part of black pop. An R&B bump-and-grind man like R. Kelly can try his hand at gospel moves – even sneaking the line "leaning on the everlasting arms" into the theme for a Bugs Bunny movie – while minister Kirk Franklin works the other side of the street, taking his spiritual jones into funky territory. Franklin made noise last year on the God's Property smash "Stomp," bellowing preacherly invocations while a choir sang hooks from an old disco hit or two. His fourth album, The Nu Nation Project, is the big payback: After decades of soul singers and rappers borrowing church
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flava, Franklin calls in the IOUs for his hip-hop gospel.


Nu Nation gets pop juice from R. Kelly, Mary J. Blige and Bono, all of whom guest on the ballad "Lean on Me." But Franklin is the real star here, sampling P-Funk, rewriting Bill Withers' "Lovely Day" and just getting his praise on. He revisits the hip-hop boom of "Stomp" in "Revolution" and "Praise Joint"; meanwhile, "Something About the Name Jesus" offers more trad, down-home harmonizing. Franklin raps, sings, produces and generally moguls around. (He even has a new book, Church Boy, somewhat quizzically billed as his "only authorized autobiography.") Nu Nation gets an amen for trashing musical boundaries, and it sure has a catchier beat than Marilyn Manson.

R. Kelly puts a lot of church into his music – even in salacious ballads like "Half on a Baby" – and that's just part of his always-wearing-shades allure. The mystery man spends his excellent double album, R., proving that he can do it all: He rhymes with Jay-Z and Foxy Brown; he croons with Celine Dion; he goofs on tango and opera; he speaks fluent pillow talk in every pop dialect. R. gets the party started with "Home Alone," which features rapper Keith Murray, Sugarhill sound effects and Off the Wall-style disco guitar as Kelly voices his intention to "freak you to the floor." But he also scores in smooch ballads like "Get Up on a Room," whispering, "Baby ... we're both just sittin' here ... we need to get somewhere ... private" until you're ready to toss him the keys. He also tries his hand at yodeling, for reasons known only to the man called R. himself.

Once upon a time, Kelly's productions for other singers, such as Aaliyah and Changing Faces, were inevitably livelier than his own records, but success seems to have fired up his brilliance – you take the R. Kelly who sings the drippy ballads and the R. Kelly who rides his pony through the funk jams and you've got two of the most lethal musicians on the planet. His overly Mase-style rapping aside, Kelly covers every base: beats, melodies, vocals, production, enigmatic-bald-guy cool, lyrics. Yes, lyrics – Kelly faces up to the bleak conscience of a do-wrong man in confessions that put Elvis Costel

The rap on R. Kelly's first two albums was that the Chicago singer/songwriter and producer was a soulman with no real soul, just another hot 'n' horny would-be Lothario using his silky-smooth grooves to lure the honeys to his water bed. But those who'd seen his emotionally wrought live shows knew there was more to the picture. "There's R. Kelly, and then there's Robert," Kelly says. "R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through."

Coming on the heels of "You Are Not Alone," the hit he crafted for Michael Jackson, Kelly's third Jive effort indicates that he has the range of an R&B great. It's also the album on which R. and Robert merge, offering a look at the man behind the libido.

Humping and bouncing are still the central obsessions, to borrow the title of one track, but another dimension has been added. Like so many R&B singers, Kelly started out in the church, and a gospel sermon opens the album. After thanking the Lord for his success ("Even the Statue of Liberty wants to bump and grind," he sings in a preacher's cadence), Kelly admonishes critics who questioned his depth as well as gossipmongers who speculated about his relationship with his teenage protégé, Aaliyah ("Before you go tryin' to pass judgment on me/Pass judgment on yourself"). He soon gets down to taking his laid-back beats, gently pulsing bass and soaring vocals to the streets, but he continues to balance the sacred and the profane in gorgeous tracks such as "Religious Love" and "Heaven If You Hear Me."

Kelly could use some more sophisticated metaphors to match his maturing musical talents ("You remind me of my Jeep: I wanna ride it," he sings in "You Remind Me of Something"), but he has grown out of his unthinking misogyny to the point where he makes a plea in "As I Look Into My Life" to "brothers in the ghetto" to "love and respect that woman and bring her happiness." Make love not war is an old message, but Kelly delivers it with sincerity. By spreading it in the hood in these violent times, he believes he's doing God's work, and who's to say he's wrong? Predecessors like Marvin Gaye and Prince have shown that great sex is spiritual, and Kelly's make-out music ranks with the best. (RS 726)


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R. Kelly Records and CDs:
12 Play
A Woman's Threat
Chocolate Factory
Did You Ever Think
Gotham City
Half On A Baby
  Happy People
I Believe I Can Fly
I Wish
If I Could Turn Back The Hands
Ignition
  R.
R. Kelly
She's Got That Vibe
Summer Bunnies
The World's Greatest
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You Remind Me Of Something

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    Kelly R.   R.
Clean Version Home Alone Spendin' Money If I'm Wit You Half On A Ba Jiv, 11/10/1998
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    Kelly R.   R.
Explicit Version Home Alone (featuring Keith Murray) Spendin' Money If I'm Wit You</ Ji...
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    Kelly R.   R.
Explicit Version Home Alone (featuring Keith Murray) Spendin' Money If I'm Wit You</ Ji...
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    Kelly R.   R.
Clean Version Home Alone Spendin' Money If I'm Wit You Half On A Ba Jiv, 11/10/1998
Brand New CD   $15.04   MusicImport
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    Kelly R.   R.
10037 used, Condition Sleeve/record: Vg++/ Vg++ Jive 224423 Germany 2cd Special Order
CD   $25.77   CDExpress
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    Kelly R.   R.
Lp And Digitally Remastered Audiophile Cd. Professional Artwork, Track Listing, Cd Jewel Case Etc Special Order
New LP+CDR   $63.85   Vinyl Revolu
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    Kelly R.   R. In R&b-video
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NEW DVD   $14.20   GrooveNet
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    Kelly R.   R. Kelly
Intro - The Sermon Hump Bounce Not Gonna Hold On You Remind Me Of Som Jiv, 11/14/1995
Brand New CD   $8.98   MusicImport
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    Kelly R.   R. Kelly
Intro - The Sermon Hump Bounce Not Gonna Hold On You Remind Me Of Som Jiv, 11/14/1995
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Jive Label Grou
NEW CD   $20.57   GrooveNet
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    Kelly R. - Public   R In R&b Greatest Hits
EX/EX CD   $58.03   F-seventies
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    Kelly,r.   R 2CD   $29.18 - $30.49   Cdking24
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Cd. Release Date: 01/04/2005. Import, Pid, 886970466127, 01/04/2005
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NEW CD   $15.35   GrooveNet
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    Kelly,r.   R In R And B-greatest Hits
International 'slide Pack' Edition Features A Different Track Listing To The Us Version.
New CD   $14.85   CDQuest
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967671 new Copy/ Cd + Bonus Remix Ep Holland Barcode: 0828765705820 Title: R In R&b Greatest... Special Order
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Kelly, r. - R Kelly   Kelly,r.   R Kelly
R Kelly R Kelly (1995 Japanese Promotional 16-track Cd Album - The Eponymous Second Album From T...
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    Kelly,r.   R. CD   $14.88   Disc Xpress
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    Kelly,r.   R.
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    Kelly,r.   R.
Cd. Release Date: 11/10/1998. Us, Jiv, 012414162526, 11/10/1998
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Cd. Release Date: 11/10/1998. Us, Jiv, 012414166128, 11/10/1998
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Soul/r & B
NEW CD   $19.69   GrooveNet
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Soul/r & B
NEW CD   $19.69   GrooveNet
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Lp Vinyl, Kelly, R.: R., Jive 01241 41625/gatefold/3 Lp's/dj Stamp/'98 M-/vg++... Home Alone/di...
M-/VG++ LP   $9.45   Music Obsess
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    Kelly,r.   R.
1998--gf--co--rw Us, Jive, 01241-41625-1
VG+ EX 3LP   $12.65   Snowball
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    Kelly,r.   R. (2cd) 2CD   $4.76 - $6.66   RECORD WORLD
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    Kelly,r.   R. (2cd)
No Eu, Jive, X, 1998
Vg + Ex 2CD   $4.76   RECORD WORLD
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    Kelly,r.   R. (2cd)
No Eu, Jive, X, 1998
Ex - Ex 2CD   $6.66   RECORD WORLD
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    Kelly,r.   R. - Best Of
2 Cd
2CD   $28.97   Black Rhythm
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    Kelly,r.   R. In R&b Greatest Hits Collection Volume 1
24 Track Double Cd Eu, Zomba, 82876561792
EX EX CD   $11.20   Steve Fisher
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    Kelly,r.   R. In R&b-video Collection
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    Kelly,r.   R. In R&b-video Collection
Dvd. Release Date: 10/21/2003. Us, Jiv, 828765370998, 10/21/2003
NEW DVD   $12.54   SilverDisc
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    Kelly,r.   R. In R&b-video Collection
Soul/r & B
NEW DVD   $14.74   GrooveNet
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    Kelly,r.   R. In R&b-video Collection
Usa, Sbme/jive/silvertone Special Order
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
Jive 41579-2
CD   $2.99   Musical Ener
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
Jive 41579-2
CD   $3.99   Musical Ener
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
Canada, Zomba, 124141579, 1/1/1995
VG+ M- CD   $5.73   Never Ending
Canada   
    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
Canada, Jive, J21579, 1/1/1995
VG+ VG+ CD   $6.88   Never Ending
Canada   
    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
Canada, Jive, 124141579, 1/1/1995
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
Cd. Release Date: 11/14/1995. Us, Jiv, 012414157928, 11/14/1995
NEW CD   $9.99   SilverDisc
USA 
    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
Soul/r & B
NEW CD   $11.75   GrooveNet
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
New CD   $11.98   HARD TO FIND
USA 
    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
Usa, Sbme/jive/silvertone Special Order
New CD   $13.99   CD Euroxpres
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
1995 Jive:chip166 Uk
EX/EX CD   $23.27   Ear of the
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
CD   $24.84   Black Rhythm
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly (1995)
VG CD   $11.37   discservice
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Kelly, r. - R. Kelly's Remix Library   Kelly,r.   R. Kelly's Remix Library
Us 5-track Promo In Digipack From 1998. bump 'n Grind (old School Mix) Down Low (live To Regret ...
VG++/NM CDsingle   $17.28   Gatefold
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R. Kelly's Remix Library - Kelly, r.   Kelly,r.   R. Kelly's Remix Library
R Kelly R. Kellys Remix Library (1998 Us 5-track Promotional Cd Including Bump N Grind [old Scho...
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly-pied Piper Of R&b Unauthorized
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New DVD   $7.17   Disc Xpress
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    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly-pied Piper Of R&b Unauthorized
Dvd. Release Date: 03/23/2004. Us, Azu, 655690466096, 03/23/2004
NEW DVD   $8.06   SilverDisc
USA 
    Kelly,r.   R. Kelly-pied Piper Of R&b Unauthorized
Documentary
NEW DVD   $9.48   GrooveNet
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    Kelly,r.   R.in R&b:video Collection
E63675 new Copy/ Pal/all Regions Holland Barcode: 0886973650691 Title: R.in R&b:video Collec... Special Order
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Kelly, r. - Radio & Records Ad – 2001   Kelly,r.   Radio & Records Ad – 2001
2001 - This Is An Original Ad From Radio And Records Magazine,not A Photocopy. The Ad Measures Ap...
NM Poster   $9.99   Arcane
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Cd Single, Kelly, R.: Real Talk Clean 3:00/main 3:00/instrum. 3:00/main Acapella 2:54/jukinŐ Rem...
LIKE NEW CDsingle   $2.10   Music Obsess
USA 
    Kelly,r.   Remix City Vol. 1
Uk
EX/EX CD   $44.06   Vinylshop
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    Kelly,r.   Remix City Vol.1
1 ! ! Not In Stock ! ! Please Allow Up To 60 Days Delay Before Shipment (sorry, No Exact Wait... Special Order
NEW CD   $14.33   Cdking24
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Kelly, r. - Rise Up Student Intro 3:30/r.kelly Intro 3:30   Kelly,r.   Rise Up Student Intro 3:30/r.kelly Intro 3:30
Cd Single, Kelly, R.: Rise Up Student Intro 3:30/r.kelly Intro 3:30, Jive 88697-11507/promo Issu...
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Kelly, r. - Rock Star   Kelly,r.   Rock Star
R Kelly Featuring Ludacris & Kid Rock Rock Star (2007 Us 5-track Promotional Cd Of The Track...
New/Mint CDsingle   $13.67   eil / esprit
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Kelly, r. - Rock Star Feat. Ludacris & Kid Rock Squeaky Clean 4:49/explicit 4:49/instrum. 4:49/clean Acapell   Kelly,r.   Rock Star Feat. Ludacris & Kid Rock Squeaky Clean 4:49/explicit 4:49/instrum. 4:49/clean Acapell
Cd Single, Kelly, R.: Rock Star Feat. Ludacris & Kid Rock Squeaky Clean 4:49/explicit 4:49/...
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    Kelly,r. (r   R
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    Kelly,r. (r   R (multi-foc)
Usually Shipped After 2 Business Days. Number Of Media (discs, Tapes, Records…): 2. International... Special Order
NEW/NEU! ( Digi Pak   $28.78   Total Recall
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    Kelly,r. (r   R In R&b Collection 1
In Stock. Shipped Within 24 Hours. Confirmation Email After Shipping. Number Of Media (discs, Tap...
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    Kelly,r. (r   R In R&b Collection 1 (incl. Remix Bonus Cd)
Usually Shipped After 2 Business Days. Number Of Media (discs, Tapes, Records…): 2. Europe, Jive,... Special Order
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Usually Shipped After 2 Business Days. Bonus Cd, Original Language: English. Number Of Media (dis... Special Order
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    Kelly,r. (r   R Kelly Ep (6 Tracks, Nc)
In Stock. Shipped Within 24 Hours. Confirmation Email After Shipping. Number Of Media (discs, Tap...
used 12"   $8.62   Total Recall
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