![]() On its simplest level, "Friend Of Mine" was the story of a girl (Kelly Price) betrayed by her sexy lover (R. Kelly's relevance to Southern Soul R&B in 1998, when-along with the release of his retro classic, "When A Woman's Fed Up"-he appeared in a stunning music video on BET and MTV for Kelly Price's debut single, "Friend of Mine." Kelly singing "When A Woman's Fed Up" on YouTube. When I listen to the latest Kelly or Badu product, I just shake my head and wonder why people can't see that the "emperor" is not wearing any clothes. Because I truly believe Southern Soul music is far superior to anything contemporary hiphop is producing. It's a shame-I don't know what else to say. Kelly is now a historical footnote in the re-emergence of Southern Soul music-no longer an active or even semi-active player. Sam, Simeo and others-have actually crashed through the barriers and become in varying degrees fixtures on the Southern Soul scene.Ĭonsequently, R. Kelly mold over the last decade- Sir Charles Jones, T. What's most ironic about the situation is that many of the artists who came out of the hiphop side of R&B in the R. The young, supposedly-hip people who buy into this music you can't dance to apparently buy enough records to sway the artists away from tuneful, danceable, verse-and-chorus songwriting. That's because he's gone over entirely into the hiphop scene, and his music (again, like Badu's) is almost impenetrably unmelodic, un-swinging and overblown. Kelly on chitlin' circuit-style stations, you no longer hear R. Unlike the late nineties and early 00's, when you could often hear a traditional R&B song by R. Kelly has become less and less relevant to Southern Soul music. Kelly's personal character or his legal travails (and I have taken a lot of heat for largely ignoring them), the man is (or was) a musical genius and he had a function in whetting the appetite of soul music lovers for the Southern Soul we know and love today.īut like Erykah Badu, R. ![]() Kelly on the Southern Soul website, go to "Kelly, R." in Daddy B. ![]() To instantly link to all the awards, citations and other references to R. Kelly - Southern Soul Music Artist - Southern Soul RnB
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