R. Kelly Album Leaks, Fans Do Something We Can’t Print!

What’s new on the file-sharing networks this week.

R. Kelly, Double Up

Official release date: May 29

The Internet loves it! “I hope people don’t stay hung up on his behind-the-scenes sexual interests (no matter how scary they are) and can put this on over the summer, because it is begging to be played at any party you’re at.� [Breakfast for the Block]

The Internet hates it! “R. Kelly doesn’t stray away from content that has garnered him his fortune (the club scene, and having sex) … It’s more of the same, but just not as fantastic. I wouldn’t buy it.� [Zilla Says]

We think: At this point, the quality of R. Kelly’s work is mostly contingent on its ridiculousness, and with songs like “Havin’ a Baby� (in which he forges a hook out of a Lamaze technique) and “Sex Planet� (sample lyric: “Baby my rocket is so full of fuel!�), Double Up delivers enough horny surrealism to satisfy the most discerning absurdist. The album’s most inane moments come on “Real Talk,� as Kelly reacts incredulously to a girlfriend’s accusations of, well, pretty much everything he admits to on the other eighteen tracks. Luckily, it doesn’t sound like she’s heard about his impropriety at the zoo … yet. —Lane Brown