![]() But he has a big fan base that still wants to hear good music from him, and undeniably this is a good record." "Considering what he's being accused of, the content of the song is questionable, and I had doubts how it would be received. Kelly has or hasn't done is, all radio hears is a hit record," said Dontay Thompson, R&B editor at industry trade publication Radio & Records. ![]() 2 on the R&B chart, a major hit in urban markets nationwide. The song's opening line - "Let me stick my key in your ignition, babe" - is indicative of its subject matter, a salacious account of love-making in the back seat of a car. It's been issued in a couple of formats: a slow grind ballad of the sort Kelly specializes in and an uptempo remix. Yet a few weeks ago, Kelly resurfaced with "Ignition," the first single from Chocolate Factory, and radio embraced it. Kelly and R., with its inspirational anthem "I Believe I Can Fly," established him as the biggest R&B singer of the '90s, Kelly found his career in danger of bottoming out. ![]() After multimillion-sellers such as 12 Play, R. ![]() The Best of Both Worlds, a joint album with Jay-Z, flopped, and in autumn, Jive scrapped a finished Kelly solo album, Loveland. His songs were pulled from radio playlists, and hip-hop peers such as Jay-Z and Nas publicly distanced themselves from him. Kelly was indicted last year in Chicago on 21 counts of child pornography, and faces 12 more counts on similar charges after a recent arrest in Florida. ![]()
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