Boosie thinks R. Kelly Better than Michael Jackson, Prince & Stevie Wonder
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ultraflexed
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Hell no, stevie's hits destroy kellz it's not even close man.
Kellz cant get past marvin Gaye
TheBigBopper
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R Kelly is catchy, but that piano playing is technically simple shyt. Prince wasn't Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen but he was in a tier below and definitely a better guitarist than most mainstream multi-instrumentalists. Prince could slay on piano too considering that wasn't even his main instrument.
TheBigBopper
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I mean to be fair, MJ was trying to find his lane during that time and QJ gave breh game to actually do his own thing. Hell Stevie was doing covers for songs until he found his own style with "Music of my Mind". Prince was rough to listen to until "Purple Rain" came out.
Babysteps but trust the process. Kells was musically gifted but he still was trying to find his lane with Public Announcement.
Prince was a commercial artist when he wanted to be. His second album was a more traditional R&B album that was a hit and so was 1999. Notice once he had immense fame with Purple Rain, he used his creative freedom to make more eccentric shyt and didn't really produce another traditionally R&B album again until arguably Diamonds and Pearls in 1992.
TheBigBopper
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Dude even came out with a Jehovah witness gospel album:
This album is obscure as shyt but honestly one of my favorite albums of his. Some Williamburg CACs in brooklyn were having a listening party for this right after he died.
nah
stevie has got some classics ,I never dreamed you'd leave in summer ,one of my favs
but kells for me
In a Versus... R Kelly takes this. His hits are too strong. Nothing you could do would rattle him: creativity, hooks, remixes, anthems, sex songs, love songs, party songs.... He can do whatever you do then make up a remix on the fly.
ThatTruth777
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When I think of R.Kelly music its a bunch of good love songs and there's nothing wrong with that but that's his niche. The other artist listed have more diversity in addition to the musicianship which brings it to another level. I'm really trying to avoid tearing him down but this isn't even a debate.
How many years of piano playing experience do you have?
TheBigBopper
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None, but I know a few chords and understand music theory from playing guitar for nearly 20 years and know what complex music is. That video you linked probably wasn't a good example of R. Kelly's playing tbf--I could learn how to play it and I suck. Prince's piano ability isn't what I would call complex either but it's better than most singer-songwriters.
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TheBigBopper
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if you grew up in a black household, your family should have been playing their music. What era you grew up in has little to do with it
I grew up with Kels more because I'm from the Chi
But I took time to discover Prince and he's been my favorite artist since 12
Plus, let's be real. Prince and MJ both alienated a lot of black ppl in the 90s and made it difficult to be fans of theirs, the former with his symbol shyt and the latter with his little kids shyt. MJ never had the chance to redeem himself in the public eye until he died and Prince sort of floated into obscurity and became the answer to 80s pop trivia questions until his comeback in the 2000s.
1. mike
2. stevie
3. prince
4. kelz
2. stevie
3. prince
4. kelz
TheBigBopper
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I hear you.. but have any of them every wrote the remix to a song before the original song?
Kels is illiterate. He probably didn't even know what remix meant. He should't get credit for that.
TheBigBopper
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Definitely not
R Kelly writes some good fukk songs, but Prince created entirely new genres. In his hey day, rock white stations and black R&B stations were playing his songs at the same time because his music couldn't be categorized. His work in the 80s was both commercially successfully yet also had artistic depth, and there are very few artists who claim that aside from Stevie, the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, and maybe some of Michael Jackson's work. R Kelly never achieved this. His work is catchy but not lyrically profound or musically challenging.