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R. Kelly Has 15 More Chapters Of “Trapped In The Closet” For You
12:59 PM on Fri Feb 5 2010 by Becky Bain
R. Kelly is making you beg for more. The eccentric R&B crooner posted a Twitvid revealing that he has has 15 more chapters of his episodic soap opera "Trapped In The Closet" ready to go, but he's waiting to hear if you really, really want it or not before he decides to release them. Stroke the man's ego already, people! Don't you want—nay, need—more of Kells' lyrical melodrama? More »
Charts
Susan Boyle Stays At #1 As Adam Lambert, Rihanna And Gaga Fall
8:58 AM on Wed Dec 9 2009 by Robbie Daw
Susan Boyle managed to fend off Andrea Bocelli’s My Christmas to retain the #1 position on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart this week, the trade publication reports. I Dreamed A Dream has now sold a total of 1.23 copies in the U.S. after only two weeks.
Well, Simon Cowell did have Boyle record “Silent Night” for her set of standards, and you can never underestimate the impulse buys of the holiday-shopping public. Does this technically make I Dreamed A Dream a holiday album? Hardly. But when it comes to safe fare for the whole family in December, Susan Boyle more than fits the bill of perfect cookie-baking jams to bring to Grandma’s house. More »
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R. Kelly Getting Stiffed By Susan Boyle, Lashes Out At The Haters
10:13 AM on Fri Dec 4 2009 by Robbie Daw
R. Kelly’s new album Untitled doesn’t appear to be too much of a threat—well, unless you’re worried you might suddenly find yourself in the family way after listening to it.
Billboard is projecting that the battle for the peak position on next week’s Top 200 Albums chart is between the current #1, Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream, and Andrea Bocelli’s encroaching My Christmas, which has been lodged at #2 for the past three weeks. Each is said to possibly sell upwards of 375,000 copies by week’s end.
R. Kelly, on the other hand, is expected to only move about 100,000 copies. Maybe he should have titled his album, after all. More »
Music
R. Kelly Wants To Take You Behind the Middle School And Get You ‘Pregnant’
10:53 AM on Wed Nov 25 2009 by Becky Bain
Okay, that was Tracy Jordan, not R. Kelly, but it may as well be. R. Kelly dropped his song “Pregnant” off his upcoming album Untitled (seriously, Kel? You couldn’t think of one thing to call it?). The slow jam features The-Dream, Robin Thicke, and, yes, even model-turned-actor-turned rapper Tyrese. Hey, why not! Everybody come on board, it’s a party! In fact, that’s exactly how R. Kelly wrote his album—nonstop partying. More »
Headlines
R. Kelly Prepares To Write A New Chapter
2:00 PM on Mon Oct 19 2009 by Maura
Friday night R. Kelly performed in New York at the former Felt Forum, now a theater named after a bank that went belly-up because of the excesses of the previous decade. The tour was Kells’ “Ladies Make Some Noise Tour,” in which the default mode for the evening involved a) ladies b) making some noise, particularly when lyrics involving doing the nasty were thrust from the stage. Oh, and there was also thrown underwear—from both sides of the stage. More »
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R. Kelly Tells The Lady In His Life: “U Saved Me”
6:00 PM on Fri Oct 9 2009 by Maura
ARTIST: R. Kelly
TITLE: “Religious”
WEB DEBUT: Oct. 9, 2009 More »
News
11:30 AM on Thu Oct 8 2009 by Maura
Today in unfortunate promo codes, from a last-minute ticket deal for a show at the Boston venue known as the Wang Theater: “Take advantage of this 50% discount when you purchase select tickets to see R. Kelly featuring Pleasure P, at the Citi Performing Arts Center, this Friday, October 9. Tickets start at S27.50 when you use the promo code RKELLYWANG.” Even “WALMARTPANTIES” would have been a little less giggle/groan-worthy! [BroadwayOffers.com via Velvet Rope] More »
News
Twitter: Breaking Down The Fan-Celebrity Boundaries, One Package Of Cheap Underwear At A Time
1:00 PM on Mon Sep 28 2009 by Maura
Above, a Tweet that was directed to one R. Kelly just moments ago. Which he reposted for his own enjoyment. Twice. God bless our hyperconnected world! [via @KellZodiac / Twitter] More »
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Ten Bands That Should (And Ten Bands That Shouldn’t) Grace Us With A Cover Of “Yakety Sax”
10:00 AM on Wed Aug 19 2009 by Maura
I don’t know about you, but the dog days of August are making me long for some levity. And what better way to bring in some hilarity than to think about the late Boots Randolph’s delightful “Yakety Sax,” a.k.a. “that Benny Hill Show song,” a.k.a. the best way to make any YouTube clip hilarious? Noted “Yakety Sax” enthusiast Jess Harvell and I put together a pair of lists related to the song—namely, a top 10 countdown of artists who need to cover the song soon, and a counterpoint list of 10 artists who should never get within a 25-mile radius of its implied hilarity, for fear of ruining it for all time. The countdowns after the jump. More »
Videodrone
R. Kelly And Keri Hilson Make Love On The Radio
10:30 AM on Tue Aug 18 2009 by Maura
The push for R. Kelly’s forthcoming Untitled has begun in earnest, with the Pied Piper of R & B inviting bloggers over to his memorabilia-crammed house for the purpose of sampling his record and announcing tour dates. There’s also a video for the Kells/Keri Hilson collaboration “Number One,” in which really good sex is compared to topping the charts; the clip embraces the romantic side of radio, with both singers cooing the words to the track while in moodily lit studios located approximately 710 miles apart from one another. Clip after the jump. More »
