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Topic subjectRE: you are trying waaay to hard to convince ppl D'angelo is just some
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2658345, RE: you are trying waaay to hard to convince ppl D'angelo is just some
Posted by gstampz, Sun Feb-05-12 10:42 PM
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>You need to just get over the fact that R Kelly a.k.a. "the
>pied pedo" doesn't make interesting music, he can make hit
>records though but I know no one who listens intently to Kells
>music because of how sophisticated the arrangement is or how
>tight the drumming or guitar playing is or anything of the
>sort, ppl I know who are ardent Kells's fans like his music
>because its accessible and catchy. Plain and simple, D puts
>out genre bending music, Kells doesn't, bottom line...

Come on now plenty of ppl listen to his music.

>
>Kells ain't got shit in his resume that can fuck with Brown
>Sugar or Voodoo...'12 play?' LOL....'trapped in the close?'
>LOL

Thats all opinion ..12 play is considered a classic why the sarcasm?

>
>I've heard so many of the great and legendary artist single
>out ONLY D'angelo as carrying the torch for soul
>music...ranging from BB King, Prince, Babyface, Tom Jones,
>Raphael Saadiq, Palladino just to name a few...

D does carry the torch but come now Kellz does too he is great at doing soul music.. Aretha just raved about him last year

>
>a few yrs ago, there was a VH1 documentary that traced the
>history of blk music and it went throught the litany of blk
>artists who set the standard for future artist to follow
>after...and in it they talked w/ Quincy Jones and Brian
>McKnight and both talked abt how there's been a decline in the
>quality of music, particularly soul music, over the years...
>
>but
>
>BOTH said no matter how barren the landscape is, there's
>always seems to be one to keep the torch lit...and guess who
>was the ONLY current artist they mentioned?
>
>and lemme just say it wasn't the artist who has pedophilia
>proclivities.

That was nice of them I'm sure if someone had brought up Kellz name they would have complimented him too