![]() Kelly have been saying: Robert Kelly is a rare talent, perhaps too consumed by his odd sense of humor to find the proper focus.īlack Panties is an album that hardcore R. Kelly returned from career-threatening throat surgery to clarify what a lot of folks who’ve grown up figuring out how to like R. Write Me Back was perhaps too much too soon after Love Letter, but with that pair of albums R. Kelly arguably ran away with the R&B torch in the ’90s, but until 2010’s Love Letter he had mostly allowed the public’s perception of him to focus on Chappelle’s Show, SNL and personally promoted caricatures, crafting a goofball, wanna-be thug persona who was great for guilty pleasures (“Real Talk” from Double Up, “Pregnant” from Untitled to name a pair) but rarely were his projects relevant as a whole. But as someone who errs on the side of generally letting art speak for the artistic career of an artist - not their personal lives - I felt uncomfortable getting involved in any of that.īesides, Black Panties is a little more interesting as an endurance test anyway. Kelly slipped out of being charged with nary a dent on his mainstream popularity. It’s forever a compelling case, perhaps more than any publicly acknowledged pop star’s fatal flaws since Ike Turner or Phil Spector. Primarily this was due to an over reliance on the Village Voice-rekindled narrative of Jim DeRogatis vs. ![]() Apologies for delaying this review so long, but I thought it might help to approach Black Panties a couple months reviewed from its release. ![]()
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