That's certainly sad to read.

Separately, I used to be such a HUGE R Kelly fan in the 90s but I think things really changed for me from the R album going forward: the embrace of the 'R&B thug' character, the big ballads, the fact his music wasn't maturing with his age, the increasingly overblown types of sexual expression, the Trapped in the Closest series - I just felt I couldn't relate to him or his music anymore.

The coolest thing I remember him saying though was in an interview, I think which was promoting TP2.com (but I could be wrong) was when he discussed Maxwell's 'Fortunate' and how everyone around him was telling him he was crazy for giving that song away and he should be keeping it for himself. His response was, for him to not give it away is for him to admit that he couldn't write a song better than that one, so his competitiveness meant he had to give it away. I always thought that was really cool.