1. ‘What’s going on inside my pants, I can’t explain’
From 1993's ‘I Like the Crotch on You’.
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As R Kelly drops his latest album 'The Buffet', we revisit the R&B icon’s most wince-worthy lines
R Kelly – singer, producer, deeply controversial R&B icon – has been making music for more than 25 years. In that time he’s been responsible for more tortuous innuendos, tone-deaf come-ons and dodgy sexual metaphors than any other artist – and that’s without even mentioning ‘Trapped in the Closet’, his farcical multi-chapter ‘hip hopera’.
The self-anointed King of R&B’s latest album drops this week, and to mark the occasion we’ve compiled some his biggest lyrical misfires. Over to you, Kels…
From 1993's ‘I Like the Crotch on You’.
From 2000’s ‘The Greatest Sex’.
From 2015’s ‘Poetic Sex’.
From 2005’s ‘(Sex) Love Is What We Makin’’.
From 2013’s ‘Genius’.
From 2007’s ‘Best Friend’.
From 2003’s ‘Ignition (Remix)’.
From 2013’s ‘Cookie’.
From 2007’s ‘Sweet Tooth’.
From 2015’s ‘Anything Goes’.
From 2007’s ‘The Zoo’.
From 2007’s ‘Havin’ a Baby’.
From 2005’s ‘In the Kitchen’.
From 2003’s ‘Snake’.
From 2000’s ‘Don’t You Say No’.
From 2000’s ‘Strip For You’.
From 1995’s ‘You Remind Me of Something’.
R Kelly releases ‘The Buffet’ on Friday Dec 11.
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