![]() ![]() On stage, he began performing before a backdrop of flowing yellow liquid (his management insisted this was meant to represent honey). "Shower down on me, wet me with your love," wailed the chorus, which, however you chose to slice it, is a funny thing to sing if you've just been accused of urinating on a 14-year-old. First, he released a track called Heaven, I Need a Hug. ![]() It's his bizarre musical response to the charges. It's not so much the 14 charges of soliciting a minor for child pornography he is facing - relating to a 2002 video that purported to show him engaging in sex acts with a 14-year-old girl (most infamously, urinating on her) - that has caused people to forget. Midway through the video for his current single, I'm a Flirt, Robert Kelly fixes the camera with a chilling glare: "Let me remind you," he sings, "that I am the king of R&B." It has certainly been easy to overlook that R Kelly was the master of a peculiarly lascivious brand of urban MOR, the kind of artist who duetted with Celine Dion.
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