Rev Leon Lonnie Love
damned mine eyes, DAMNED mine eyes!!
The delusion
R. Kelly or D'Angelo...who you got?
- Thread starter Billy Ocean
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You like listening to music written about a man having sex with underage women
Of course he is.
R Kelly is more of a pop artist (which takes a lot of talent of course). D'Angelo is more of a musical auteur. They're both titans in their lanes. I'm willing to concede that R Kelly overall may be the better artist considering popular appeal, but critical acclaim... D'Angelo has him beat.
HARLEM AL
Your broad loves me.....
I know I’m in the minority but I’m taking D’angelo. I really wish he oust out more music.
In that minority as well.
R Kelly's popular appeal and greater output can't be discounted, he'll always have that. But no R Kelly album has the critical acclaim of Brown Sugar, Voodoo or Black Messiah. The way they approach music is different.
HARLEM AL
Your broad loves me.....
I could hold up TP2, Chocolate Factory, and The R(double album) against those but I’m more of D’angelo fan. I’d prefer D’angelo if had to choose. I still remember the day I first heard shyt damn motherfukka.
I could hold up TP2, Chocolate Factory, and The R(double album) against those but I’m more of D’angelo fan. I’d prefer D’angelo if had to choose. I still remember the day I first heard shyt damn motherfukka.
They're great albums for sure, and if not for R Kelly liking children, the hits on those albums would be still played by yours truly. However I'm reading the critical reviews of R Kelly's albums. They just don't match up to the acclaim D'Angelo's (limited) output got/gets from all angles. Here's Voodoo.
Voodoo received rave reviews from contemporary music critics,[53] who dubbed it a "masterpiece" and D'Angelo's greatest work.[19][44][106][107] In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau called it a "deeply brave and pretentious record ... signifies like a cross between lesser Tricky and Sly's Riot Goin' On", and wrote of D'Angelo, "he leads from strength" rather than "tune-and-hook", "a feel for bass more disquieting than bootalicious."[61] NME praised its diverse sound and commented that the album "represents nothing less than African American music at a crossroads ... To simply call D'Angelo's work neo-classic soul, as per corporate diktat, would be reductive, for that would be to ignore the elements of vaudeville jazz, Memphis horns, ragtime blues, funk and bass grooves, not to mention hip-hop, that slip out of every pore of these 13 haunted songs."[41] Christopher John Farley of Time called it a "richly imagined CD".[11] Mark Anthony Neal of PopMatters called it "the working blueprint for 'post-Soul' black pop".[16] Joshua Klein of The A.V. Club commented that the album "often recalls the muddier bits of Sly Stone's later works [...] and the much-missed balladry of prime Prince" and stated, "D'Angelo's mellow strategy frequently pays off [...] a brave antidote to current pop and hip-hop trends."[108]
What R Kelly album (as great as they are) matches up to that?
Speaking Womanese
All Star
nobody’s beating Kellz
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
I have no idea what particular ladies were on his mind per song. What I do know is kell's first 3 projects alone are enough to beat D'Angelo.