While in London, the infamous R. Kelly made an appearance on the BBC’s prestigious Later With Jools Holland to perform his single “When A Woman Loves” from his recently released album Love Letter. You have to give it up to Mr Robert Kelly on this performance, the 44 year old Chi-town crooner definitely does his [...]
R. Kelly recently hit the stage of the Netherlands’ version of X-Factor recently to show them R&B cats how it’s done with a performance of his recent hit “When A Woman Loves” and his chart-topping 1996 Space Jam classic, “I Believe I Can Fly” – watch below. [...]
April 19, 2011
M. Gosho Oakes
Music, TV
Before there was Hype Williams, Little X and Benny Boom, there was Lionel C. Martin. From 1987 to present, Martin’s videography reads like a scroll of all of the great talents of the past 25 years in urban and popular music. Martin is responsible for giving urban music videos life and authenticity at a time [...]
Bobby V ensnares R&B legend R. Kelly for the official remix of “Words” with an actions speak louder flex ["Baby show me, that you ain't even like that / Words don't mean that much to me.."], on the first single from his Fly On The Wall album [released today]. Gotta hand it to Kellz, that [...]
March 22, 2011
M. Gosho Oakes
New Music, Remixes
Last night R. Kelly performed his single “Number One Hit” from his Love Letter album on George Lopez‘ show. Kellz’ songwriting is on a whole next level (or he’s just on another planet), how many other R&B singers can reference Avatar and Coming To America in one song? [...]
February 15, 2011
Verse
Music
Today Chicago hailing R&B star Jennifer Hudson gave the debut live TV performance of her Harvey Mason Jr. produced new single “Where You At” on Oprah. With a stellar vocal performance Hudson belts out the pained and disappointed R. Kelly penned lyrics of the first single from her forthcoming sophomore LP, I Remember Me; “You [...]
February 11, 2011
M. Gosho Oakes
Music, TV
Brand new/unreleased music from R&B legend R.Kelly titled “Doin’ Dishes”. The keyboard-driven mid-tempo song laced with light drum patterns sees R.Kelly in fine form and continuing on his recent string of impressive R&B songs – most notably, his Sam Cooke-inspired 2010 critically acclaimed album ‘Love Letter’. Listen to R.Kelly – “Doin’ Dishes” below. There’s still [...]
February 9, 2011
Ayodele Adepoju
Music
Aretha Franklin called into the Wendy Williams Show yesterday to discuss her recovery, her love for R Kelly “You know, if he isn’t careful, I might become a cougar,” wanting Halle Berry to play her in her forthcoming biopic and more. [...]
January 13, 2011
Verse
Arts News, Music, TV
In the last of R. Kelly‘s documentary series, Love Letter: The Documentary, Kells talks about the legendary Sam Cooke’s influence on his latest album Love Letter. Currently not viewable in the UK, but our US readers can enjoy it (I’ll re-up when an internationally viewable clip becomes available). [...]
December 22, 2010
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
Documentaries, Music
In a month of many best-ofs, top 10s and and 2010-loving lists, here’s a [somewhat] unexpected pick to peruse today as Rick Ross tops the New York Times‘ Pop Top 10 albums list for 2010 with Teflon Don, released in July. The rapper’s fourth studio album, Teflon Don, beats projects from the likes of Taylor [...]
December 22, 2010
M. Gosho Oakes
Arts News, Music