
Double Up
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  Album • Jun 30 / 2008 • 19 songs, 1h 16m 20s
    
    
    Contemporary R&B
  
  
      
      
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  After the pious Chocolate Factory (2003) and Happy People/U Saved Me (2004)-- as well as five years with multiple counts of child pornography hanging over his head-- R. Kelly continues to embrace his flightier fancies.
      
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  Since his child-pornography scandal, R. Kelly's output has been characterized by lunatic ambition and ambitious lunacy. His latest, Double Up, doesn't boast an overarching concept as ambitiously insane as the 2004 gospel/ecstatic-pop double CD Happy People/U Saved Me or his Trapped In The Closet multimedia serial, but…
      
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  Kelly really shouldn’t be making albums like this anymore. Dude’s pushing 40 and lest we forget, dude is still an alleged-felon
 
