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R. Kelly is one of contemporary R&B and pop music's most visionary songwriters, producers, and vocalists, but like Marvin Gaye and Prince in their heyday, Kelly's most sustaining characteristic is his ability to cross-pollinate themes of sex, religion, romance, and materialism. And never has that skillful mix been more evident than on Kelly's latest sacred bump-'n'-grind odyssey, TP-2.Com (which stands for 12 Play 2000). As on his solo debut 12 Play, the game is seduction and Kelly writes the rule book. Of the 18 songs, more than half are slow winding, self-explanatory odes to lust such as "The Greatest Sex," "Strip for You," and "Feelin' on Your Booty." But such swagger doesn't come without rich and often maddening conflict. On the introspective "I Decided," Kelly vows: "I'm turning in my player's card/ I'm retiring from the secret life I chose." Delving further into his tormented psyche, the crooner debates with God on "I Mean (I Don't Mean It)" and communes with his late mother and dead homies on the lead single "I Wish." From "TP-2" 's carnal quiver to the gospel-tinged euphoria of "The Storm Is Over Now," TP-2.Com is a cathartic excursion through the stormy soul of this generation's urban musical mastermind.
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TRACK LISTINGS
1 TP-2 2:19
2 Strip for You 4:10
3 R&B Thing 4:03
4 The Greatest Sex 4:39
5 I Don't Mean It 4:19
6 Just Like That 4:34
7 Like a Real Freak 4:34
8 Fiesta 3:16
9 Don't You Say No 4:06
10 The Real R. Kelly 0:54
11 One Me 3:53
12 I Wish 5:34
13 A Woman's Threat 5:55
14 I Decided 4:12
15 I Mean (I Don't Mean It) 3:25
16 I Wish (To The Homies That We Lost) Remix 5:17
17 All I Really Want 3:59
18 Feelin' on Yo Booty 4:05
19 The Storm Is over Now 4:32
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