He’ll sober up soon enough, but for now he’s on a singularly entertaining bender. Kelly can’t come to the phone because he’s still drunk from the night before. Forget the high road: the true heart of “Double Up” is “Leave Your Name,” a smoothed-out voice mail message explaining that Mr. This is a nutty album, but a pretty single-minded one, which explains why the inspirational ode “Rise Up” (dedicated to victims of the Virginia Tech shootings) sounds so incongruous. Kelly’s peculiarities get predictable: “The Zoo,” “Sweet Tooth” and “Sex Planet” could be differently themed versions of the same make-out song. With its dirty-South beat and big-money lyrics, “Rollin’ ” could have been a rote club track instead the playful and unpredictable vocal line makes it a minor tour de force. I.) inevitably get upstaged by a charismatic host who barely even bothers to make his sung-rhymes rhyme. Rapper collaborators (including Snoop Dogg, Nelly, Chamillionaire and T. Kelly acts as if he’s the king of hip-hop too.
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(The trial hasn’t begun.) But you’d never guess it from “Double Up,” which might be the most cocksure album of his career.īragging and cursing and reeling off rapid-fire lyrics, Mr. He still faces 14 counts of child pornography, stemming from a widely circulated video that allegedly shows him with an under-age girl. A double-entendriffic comeback hit, “Ignition (Remix),” marked his return in 2003 since then he has affirmed his position as one of the era’s greatest and weirdest pop stars. It’s an unnecessary boast: Who could possibly argue, or forget?įive years ago a sex scandal threatened to dethrone him, but in the end it merely gave him more of what every star needs: attention and motivation. Kelly, near the end of his thumping, piano-driven hit, “I’m a Flirt (Remix),” which just might be the most pleasurable song on the radio. “Let me remind you that I am the king of R&B.” So singeth R.
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