That's because he's gone over entirely into the hiphop scene, and his music (again, like Badu's) is almost impenetrably unmelodic, un-swinging and overblown. Kelly on chitlin' circuit-style stations, you no longer hear R. Unlike the late nineties and early 00's, when you could often hear a traditional R&B song by R. Kelly has become less and less relevant to Southern Soul music. Kelly's personal character or his legal travails (and I have taken a lot of heat for largely ignoring them), the man is (or was) a musical genius and he had a function in whetting the appetite of soul music lovers for the Southern Soul we know and love today.īut like Erykah Badu, R. Kelly on the Southern Soul website, go to "Kelly, R." in Daddy B. To instantly link to all the awards, citations and other references to R. Nice's Top 100 Countdown: The New Generation (Chart In Progress) Kelly - Southern Soul Music Artist - Southern Soul RnB
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