R. Kelly is the undisputed king of R&B and responsible for a lot of awesome songs, but listening to his newest release Double Up just cracks me up, I can’t even take him serious anymore. It’s not so much that his music sucks, ’cause he still makes some mean shit (check out Rock Star or Hook It Up), but there’s only so many ways of talking about fucking girls, infidelity and partying, and as a result he’s forced to come up with crazy ass ideas to be creative. Of course the most obvious example is Trapped in the Closet and on Double Up he sorta continues that trend on a few joints like:

The Zoo where he analogises sex with an animal theme “Girl, I got you so wet It’s like a rain forest // Like Jurassic Park, except I’m your sex-a-saurus baby // You and me hopping like two kangaroos” — Haha wtf, and the imaginatively titled Sex Planet where he analogises sex with the solar system.

–UPDATED: Check out Kells performing The Zoo acapella down below–

Real Talk, where the song plays out as an argument with his missus who suspects he’s cheating (you gotta listen to his lyrics to appreciate the funniness) and Best Friend, a collabo track that’s a 3-way conversation about Kells’ girl (played by Keyshia Cole) cheating with his best friend (played by Polow Da Don) who at one point raps to Kells “What up my nigga, you straight? Anything I can get ya?” and Kells sings back “This toilet paper be cuttin’ my ass, I need some rolls of tissue”… huh?

Maybe Kells just has a warped sense of humour, I mean he did piss on a girl once, but I think it might be time to bow out ’cause at this rate he’s gonna fuck up his legacy and most people will just remember him as that crazy guy that made a 12-part song involving a midget. What you think?

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