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great debut | 12-Play | R Kelly & Public Announcement

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	• 12-Play R Kelly & Public Announcement Jive, 1993 average customer review:based on 93 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

12 Play Is the greatest

I am a 45 year old mother of 4, I love music but I love R.Kelly his music well his early music just takes me back to Chicago the summer of 1992 so me getting 12 play at a low price was great.

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This item was given as a gift to a friend, who specifically requested it, and expressed great satisfaction on receiving it. Pricing, delivery and product integrity were all satisfactory. My rating it a 4 out of a possible 5 reflects only the fact that I lack first hand experience with the purchased item, and can only reflect the limited information conveyed to me by its recipient.

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great debut

there's a couple of tracks that i skip over, but for the most part this was a great debut. another classic to anyone's cd collection.

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R Kelly's Callin'

Theoretically R.Kelly's debut album,as a solo artist anyway is very crucial for the development of music in the 90's. It was transitional music easing out of the hip-hop based new jack swing style of the beginning of the decade towards what would eventually be known as "neo soul",a largely retro funk based sound usually informed by hip-hop rather than being dependant on it. Creatively R.Kelly embodies many of the qualities of the R&B/soul/funk greats that came before him. He's a songwriter/vocalist with a strong flair for song construction and strong,gospel informed singing and (most importantly perhaps) a multi instrumentalist with the ability to create sturdy grooves and,for example the good sense to bring in jazz guitarist Bobby Broom to play on "Your Body's Callin'". Lyrically this album blends the sacred and the secular in the classic soul tradition. It was a quality he'd maintain throughout his career. "Bump N Grind" was of course the big hit and the album followed that excellent groove,for the most part in the same manner."For You","It Seems Like Your Ready" and the extended jam "Sex Me" all follow that same basic mid-tempo neo-funk groove to a tee. This album also includes a touching story song type tribute to his mother in "Sadie",full of gospel organ and all kinds of soulful breaks and release. The same goes musically for the closing title song,the main difference is that one as with the rest of the album is based in heavy duty bedroom music,visually explicit without the use of explicit language. The interesting part is,as pointed out in many reviews the album is actually one of the few of it's type I've heard where the album loses some energy when the tempo picks up. With the exception of the strong "Summer Bunnies" the majority of the uptempo cuts such as "Homie Lover Friend","Freak Dat Body","Back To The Hood Of Things" and "I Like The Crotch On You" feature raps by DeAndre Boykins and Carey Kelly that are very repetitive and very uninteresting. Since this album was at it's time looking to innovate to a degree the inclusion of rapping on these songs kind of seemed like a step back and,in the future Kelly would come to do much much better at utilizing hip-hop in his music. For the longest time I thought of R.Kelly as a bit of a one trick pony who was likely not very capable of delivering anything close to a consistant album. After all that tended to be a problem for a lot of music of this particular era. For those I will have to say this album will certainly prove those naysayers wrong,including myself.

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When R Kelly was king part 1

Born Into The 90s by Public Announcement introduced R Kelly to the world. R Kelly later felt he needed to branch out and do his own solo thing. Smart move because he has been on the rise afterwards. Say what you will about R Kelly but he contributed immensely to R&B and we have to give credit where it is due. A lot of these groups now are inspired by him(as much as some of them wont admit it).

Your Body's Callin and Bump 'N Grind(yeah I said it, the hell with corny a** VH1 and Blender ragazine), Its Seems Like Your Ready, For You, Sex Me(parts 1&2) and the title track are what R Kelly excels at: the slow jams. He does fairly well on fast grooves like Summer Bunnies and Homie Lover Friend. Sadie is the best farewell song to a mother that I've ever heard(his mother had passed on). As much as I like this album I cant give it five stars. I Like The Crotch On You is laughably cheesy. Freak Dat Body has a slammin beat and nothing else and Back To The Hood Of Things should have never been attempted as R Kelly busts cornball verses like /"For real yo, you making me nervous/ and Im about to knock you in your teefes/(!!????!!!!).

Regardless of these missteps 12 Play is still a great album by a guy who didnt start making questionable releases until the 2000. R Kelly is one of the artists that defined 90s R&B so you would do well to have this album.

Standouts: YOUR BODY'S CALLIN, BUMP 'N GRIND, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE READY, SUMMER BUNNIES, FOR YOU, SADIE, SEX ME(part 1&2) AND 12 PLAY.

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Media Type: CD
Artist: KELLY,R.
Title: 12 PLAY
Street Release Date: 11/09/1993