R.Kelly has imposed his style in his 1st album (his explicit language, voice, ...) and TP2.com album has shown its ability to resume fashionable styles to reclaim them. This he did on black panthies.
After a short absence due to its operation and some tribute albums to his soul influences. This album sounds definitely more street, more vulgar, more raw, like the RAP US fashion of the moment. The sound is also influenced by rap dirty south and R.Kelly uses autotune / vocoder as he could do in the excellent mix tape "The demo tape".
The style can therefore surprise some of his fans but it actually has a continuity from the direct language of his 1st album, the sound street he always maintained in play 12 (back to the Hood of Things), R ( Nas) TP2.com (R & B Thug) ... Or the vocoder it uses more (The demo tape, ...)
R.Kelly proves that moves with the times, he adapts to better control the sounds of the moment while keeping its creative touch unalterable (see the hundreds of songs to his credit).
Black Panthies yet sounds very vulgar (Oreo) and highlights a self-centrism dispute the trust of R & B artists such as Marvin Gaye, ... Here it comes to showing off and not highlight women or the feeling of love. Women are both purpose and argue that as a richness and exhibits obtained by these riches (Throw money on you).
What about all this? This is art that morality will not judge. The legal issues being loins, R.Kelly can resume where it left off and be an artist of his time. The air is hip hop narcissism and R. Kelly play the games. As he played the games in Trapped in the closet.
