R.Kelly's fourth plate was also his first double album, a million-seller fully successful singles, a total that is exactly eight. It's amazing how little boring one after 135 minutes 27 songs and three Interludes R.Kelly is still. It succeeds the Soul boy from Chicago flawlessly to create an incredible atmosphere, just soulful atmosphere and get this; he thereby changed quite between styles, make it but not always, not uniformly sound. Thus the soul ballads accumulate but pretty and sound partially to fill material, without reason, however, be bad, so especially on the front part of the first panel ("If I'm Wit U", "Half On A Baby", "Get Up On A Room "however), can be found in this genre also some real gems, the seriously good numbers" When A Woman's Fed Up "," 2nd Kelly "and" Looking For Love ". In between changes R. between Playa-Up Tempo ("Home Alone", "Money Makes The World Go Round" with Nas), rap ("We Ride", "Did You Ever Think"), Blues with an attitude that to Aretha Franklin recalls ("Suicide"), magnificent Sam Cooke Soul in shape of Schmachtfetzens "If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time", powerful, mass-market soulpop ballads ("I Believe I Can Fly", "Gotham City"), Latin ("Dancing With A Rich Man") and opera influences ("The Opera"). Once the defense of his own person in the emphatic "What I Feel / Issues". On Céline Dion's "I'm Your Angel" we could have done without, but overall R.Kelly is a varied, tradition-conscious and irresistible mood stroke of genius: Soul Bible for the new century. An album that he can only likes of Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys and D'Angelo produce.
