Thoughts on R. Kelly

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When my mother was sick who died in 2001, she wanted to hear R. Kelly's songs. She did not care for R. Kelly's music but she seemed to like one of his songs. That was,"If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time". I played the song for her in the 90's and told her that it reminded me of something that she would say or write or sing. She said, "Hmm Hmm." The song was released in 1999. I wanted to write R. Kelly, but I was afraid. R. Kelly seemed like a bad boy type of guy to me. But there was something good that I always felt about him. My mother was old fashioned and warned me to be careful of writing some of the rich and famous. I took a chance and wrote R. Kelly, but he probably never got my letter.

In the year of 2000, I heard R. Kelly's song, I Wish. I didn't care for it right off of the bat until I saw the video. My mother was very sick in 2000 and said, "Let me hear some of his songs." She caught me off guard. I had been talking to her about R. Kelly's video. When she heard some of his music, she said, "It sounds like he might have had some troubles. Maybe he lived a tough life on the streets." I don't remember the song that we were listening to that made her say that. I played more than one of his songs. I think my mother saw beyond the outer appearance of R. Kelly on her sick bed. It wasn't like my mother to want to hear his music.

I just came across a video of R. Kelly receiving prayer in 2001. Again, that was the year my mother died. I'm wondering did my mother pray for R. Kelly too before her death. I believe R. Kelly has good in him.

R. Kelly Performed "I Look To You" Before Sung By Whitney

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R. Kelly had written I Look To You for Whitney Houston a long time ago. It must not have been meant for Whitney to sing it right away. When she was getting tired near the end and wanting to see Jesus, that was the time for her to sing it then. I'm glad that R. Kelly saved the song just for her. He knew Whitney.

Whitney Houston & R Kelly

YouTube

You remember Whitney singing, I Look to You, written by R. Kelly? Of course you do. Now you can hear Whitney and R. Kelly singing it together. It sounds like somebody recorded R. Kelly singing it and added it on to Whitney's single. People have been doing that kind of thing a lot on YouTube. I guess this single has been done by professionals. I'm not for sure. It's hard to tell these days. There are some talented people out there. It's amazing how this was done and Whitney and R. Kelly didn't even sing it together.

Whitney sounds nice with R. Kelly. It would have been nice if he had done more with Whitney. I think that he would have been a great songwriter for her. She probably would have stood out even more with him. I think that it is good to work with more than one producer and songwriter. I'm glad Whitney chose to do something with R. Kelly before she passed away. Now R. Kelly has something special to remember about Whitney. I hope that R. Kelly continues to stay clean and do great things with his talent. I hope he will be around for a long time. We loose so many talented people, and it's always the ones with talent it seems. That kind of gets on my nerves. R. Kelly has a great ability to write R & B and Gospel. R. Kelly can bring out true voices in singing.