R. Kelly or D'Angelo...who you got?

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R Kelly is a legend. His impact and music can't be denied

But he cant fukk with D. D hits the soul every time. First song played at my wedding :whew:

One of the best live performances I've ever see :ohlawd:

Such powerful music :whew:

Every album he dropped..... Classic :wow:

D'Angelo is my personal choice every single time and it ain't even close for me :myman:
 
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JCalli said:
R Kelly is a legend. His impact and music can't be denied

But he cant fukk with D. D hits the soul every time. First song played at my wedding :whew:

One of the best live performances I've ever see :ohlawd:

Such powerful music :whew:

Every album he dropped..... Classic :wow:

D'Angelo is my personal choice every single time and it ain't even close for me :myman:
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Yea those few memorable songs by D,really go,huh?
That nikka aint seeing kells
 
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Name 10 memorable songs by dangelo?
 
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bigbadbossup2012 said:
1.Lol,cause we dont agree with YOU? Mankind felt how i felt, Kells was always that nikka above dangelo.

2.Lol,let's be real here,nikkas was never on dangelo whole albums like that. And for good reason.

3.Lol, do you mean the same "TRUE MUSIC FANS" that took their hard earned money and chose to spend it on kells while leaving his shyt in the store? "true music fans" proved kells is what they believed in and rightfully so.

4.I dont value critics and journalists opinions anymore than an individual coli member. So as far as "respected" bla bla bla,it means nothing to me. They're just people. And people voted kells,using their hard earned resources to show who was the true Black messiah of R&B. fukk them critics

5.LMAO,nikka please. I've never heard anyone mention dangelo's albums in real life.
Mean while kells album are constantly mentioned and have been since his inception.
dangelo will be remembered for a few singles and getting naked for a video
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1. No because you’re defining commercial success and the number of successful hits as being the more talented/better artist.

2. Dude shut up. People are on D’Angelo’s full albums, and like I said, they are discusssed and referenced way more than R. Kelly’s albums.

3. LOL! All of D’Angelo’s albums have went platinum (minus Black Messiah.. it even sold higher in the first week than R. Kelly’s last album. 117K in comparison to 39K speaks volumes..especially for an artist who hasn’t released music in nearly 15 years), so that’s a lie. People, like myself are actually going to the stores and supporting his music and will continue to do so.

4. Lol! You don’t care because you know it’s true. Voodoo by itself has been referenced as one of the greatest albums of all time by many publications, including Rolling Stone who included it on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (@ #481 to be exact) 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

None of R. Kelly’s albums are no where to be found. Which proves my point.

Many of your favorite artists have also referenced D’Angelo’s output as well. I would posts tweets but anyone who knows how much D’Angelo respected would know where I’m going with that statement.

5. “In real life”? nikka this is real life. Online and offline, people are appreciating D’Angelo’s music. Even when I saw him perform in 2015 on The Second Coming Tour for Black Messiah, his shyt was sold out and there were people of different racial backgrounds there too. Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, etc. And everyone there was singing all of the words to the songs on all of his albums. So that mess about no one in real life discussing his albums is more BS you’re typing.
 
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bigbadbossup2012 said:
Name 10 memorable songs by dangelo?
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Lol at you being this pressed about people voting for D’Angelo and preferring his music to R. Kelly’s. All of his songs are memorable and classic. Just because he’s not as commercially successful in comparison to the latter doesn’t mean his music isn’t better and of higher quality. If you are really aware of D’Angelo’s artistry and output, you would know he doesn’t make music to have hits or commercial success like R. Kelly does.

From “Brown Sugar” (the first song on his debut album of the same name) to “Another Life” (the last song on Black Messiah) and all of his other releases that aren’t on those albums.. all of D’Angelo’s music is very enjoyable to me, and moves me in a way that no other artists music has. I don’t care if he wasn’t as commercially successful as R. Kelly was in his prime.
 
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brownsugah said:
1. No because you’re defining commercial success and the number of successful hits as being the more talented/better artist.

2. Dude shut up. People are on D’Angelo’s full albums, and like I said, they are discusssed and referenced way more than R. Kelly’s albums.

3. LOL! All of D’Angelo’s albums have went platinum (minus Black Messiah.. it even sold higher in the first week than R. Kelly’s last album 117K in comparison to 39K speaks volumes..especially for an artist who hasn’t released music in nearly 15 years), so that’s a lie. People, like myself are actually going to the stores and supporting his music and will continue to do so.

4. Lol! You don’t care because you know it’s true. Voodoo by itself has been referenced as one of the greatest albums of all time by many publications, including Rolling Stone who included it on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (@ #481 to be exact) 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

None of R. Kelly’s albums are no where to be found. Which proves my point.

Many of your favorite artists have also referenced D’Angelo’s output as well. I would posts tweets but anyone who knows how much D’Angelo respected would know where I’m going with that statement.

5. “In real life”? nikka this is real life. Online and offline, people are appreciating D’Angelo’s music. Even when I saw him perform in 2015 on The Second Coming Tour for Black Messiah, his shyt was sold out and there were people of different racial backgrounds there too. Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, etc. And everyone there was singing all of the words to the songs on all of his albums. So that mess about no one in real life discussing his albums is more BS you’re typing.
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1.I judge players by the game they happen to play, both are playing the commercial, major record company signed to game. Kells dominated him in this gave, every possible way.
2.a blatant lie
3. Platinum is not the eternal marker. It's about what you did vs your peers at that moment. Going plat when on other nikkas going quintuple platinum, in the same game,= step your game up loser.
4.I don't care, because one critic or even a handful, doesn't mean more than the public whom payed money to put in their vote for the artist they truly loved. It's funny you'll downplay COMMERCIAL, then proceed to act as if commercial magazines hold weight. You're all over the place. The people choose kells, it's documented.
5. Real life real actual people in front of you saying shyt to you, not potential fake people with multiple screen names pretending.
Dangelo has a couple platinum albums over 23 years, despite being out in the height of the music biz. Kells by a long shot
 
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bigbadbossup2012 said:
1.I judge players by the game they happen to play, both are playing the commercial, major record company signed to game. Kells dominated him in this gave, every possible way.
2.a blatant lie
3. Platinum is not the eternal marker. It's about what you did vs your peers at that moment. Going plat when on other nikkas going quintuple platinum, in the same game,= step your game up loser.
4.I don't care, because one critic or even a handful, doesn't mean more than the public whom payed money to put in their vote for the artist they truly loved. It's funny you'll downplay COMMERCIAL, then proceed to act as if commercial magazines hold weight. You're all over the place. The people choose kells, it's documented.
5. Real life real actual people in front of you saying shyt to you, not potential fake people with multiple screen names pretending.
Dangelo has a couple platinum albums over 23 years, despite being out in the height of the music biz. Kells by a long shot
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1. LOL so you're basically saying that commercial success is more important to you than everything else. And we all know that R. Kelly is more commercially successful than D'Angelo. But once again, that doesn't make him the better musically.
2. It's the truth, and I showed you why it was true, but on #4 you are dismissing it.
3. Now platinum is not the eternal maker, yet you said in #1 that you care about who is more successful, which is basically the reason why you prefer R. Kelly to D'Angelo.
4. Key phrase: "I don't care" meaning that you are dismissing the truth, which I provided proof with the link. Secondly critics praise music off of quality, not commercial success so there rest of #4 is even more invalid and it further proves that R. Kelly is not on the same level as D'Angelo artistically. And no you are all over the place and are not consistent in what you're saying in your post.
5. Yeah, so those people I saw at the concert were 5 rows in front of me and hundreds of rows back. And they were singing D'Angelo's lyrics word for word as if they are actually listening to and having conversations about his music. And, lol at people online pretending to like D'Angelo.. so there must be millions of pretenders then who are discussing his music and are buying his albums along with it too with their hard earned money. Also, lol at you now saying that D'Angelo has a couple of platinum albums, when you stated before that people were not buying D'Angelo's records.

Dude just exit stage left. Youre whole argument is very contradictory and invalid.
 
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brownsugah said:
1. LOL so you're basically saying that commercial success is more important to you than everything else. And we all know that R. Kelly is more commercially successful than D'Angelo. But once again, that doesn't make him the better musically.
2. It's the truth, and I showed you why it was true, but on #4 you are dismissing it.
3. Now platinum is not the eternal maker, yet you said in #1 that you care about who is more successful, which is basically the reason why you prefer R. Kelly to D'Angelo.
4. Key phrase: "I don't care" meaning that you are dismissing the truth, which I provided proof with the link. Secondly critics praise music off of quality, not commercial success so there rest of #4 is even more invalid and it further proves that R. Kelly is not on the same level as D'Angelo artistically. And no you are all over the place and are not consistent in what you're saying in your post.
5. Yeah, so those people I saw at the concert were 5 rows in front of me and hundreds of rows back. And they were singing D'Angelo's lyrics word for word as if they are actually listening to and having conversations about his music. And, lol at people online pretending to like D'Angelo.. so there must be millions of pretenders then who are discussing his music and are buying his albums along with it too with their hard earned money. Also, lol at you now saying that D'Angelo has a couple of platinum albums, when you stated before that people were not buying D'Angelo's records.

Dude just exit stage left. Youre whole argument is very contradictory and invalid.
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1. What i'm saying is that commercial success means more than any other commercial accolade. Meaning critics,trophies etc and they are the best reflection as to how the general public reacted. Kells is better simply because he's made better music and more consistently. But that's subjective. What's NOT subjective is the fact that kells dominated him with the support of paying fans. Brown sugar (1995 release) sold 1 mil and stopped.
Kells 12 play (1993 release) went to 6 mil.
R.kelly (1995 release) sold 5 mil
He got sonned by the king.

Now sales aint everything,there might be certain intangibles that would make curving the "grades" a lil more fair.
Say,if one entity was given a greater chance via prior alliances etc.
Or if one was safer than the other etc
But in this case naw. Kells was just more loved by the fans due to sheer greatness.

2.A couple of magazine cornballs do not = the general public.
So naw. That's not proof

3.see #1

4.Bullshyt. Critics can judge off direct bias,indirect bias,personal preference etc. They're not some automatically fair great judges of culture,gtfoh

5.Your concert experience means nada and NO platinum is not the marker in any of the years that he went plat.
If you go plat and stop meanwhile,the nikka u get compared to sells 5 mil with an album the same year,you got dwarfed PERIOD. You wasnt popping like him.

Then the next time you go plat,kells goes 4 mil in the same time frame,YOU LOST. YOu got squashed by the king,once again.
 
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I.. don't get it.

R Kelly and D'Angelo are both the kings in their respective lanes. For example, you can't ask who's the best between Al Green and Curtis Mayfield, this is not how it works lol.

I'm a R.Kelly stan but i have a deep respect for D'Angelo. They're both important artists, and really great live performers.

 
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I.. don't get it.

R Kelly and D'Angelo are both the kings in their respective lanes. For example, you can't ask who's the best between Al Green and Curtis Mayfield, this is now how it works lol.

I'm a R.Kelly stan but i have a deep respect for D'Angelo. They're both important artists, and really great live performers.

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Problem is people are tryin to match a guy who put out three albums, that havent moved 3 mill combined,none are classics and this is over a 23 year time frame

VS

A guy with multiple classics,whom sold 30+ million in the same amount of time.

Kells is a king,Dangelo is a peon
 
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Comparing D'Angelo to R Kelly
is like comparing Biggie to LL Cool J.

LL Got more hits, can do various styles and has a longer career with more output.
but Biggie is better at lyricism. Short discography be damned.

R. Kelly has had a longer career with more output, done various styles, many classics.
but D'Angelo is better at singing.
 
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