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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Jive
Salesrank: 870715
Released: February 18, 2003 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Chocolate Factory Track Listing:
1. Chocolate Factory
2. Step in the Name of Love
3. Heart of a Woman
4. I'll Never Leave
5. Been Around the World - Ja Rule, R. Kelly
6. You Made Me Love You
7. Forever
8. Dream Girl
9. Ignition
10. Ignition [Remix]
11. Forever More
12. You Knock Me Out
13. Step in the Name of Love [Remix]
14. Imagine That
15. Showdown - Ronald Isley, R. Kelly
16. Snake
17. Who's That
Editorial Review:
Perhaps R. Kelly's brushes with the law have caused him to turn down his love light, since his seventh album Chocolate Factory takes scrupulous pains to show an idealized high-minded face of love, eschewing his usual steamy cocktail of raunchy lust and replacing it with a sweet, winsome romanticism. "I'll Never Leave," is a wistful valentine, while "The Heart of a Woman," is embarrassingly empathetic to the plight of the feminine kind and is hardly the kind of fare that one expects from Marvin Gaye's heir apparent. Despite his real life racy escapades, Kelly is at his best musically when he's an unrepentant bad boy but he doesn't even show any grit until "Been Around the World," his confessional duet with a rasping Ja Rule, the fretful bluesy "You Made Me Love You," and "Ignition," a paean to parking. Despite "Ignition"’s first line, "Girl, please let me stick my key in your ignition, babe" it's rather tame by the standards Kelly has set on his earlier discs. "Chocolate Factory" also includes 6 bonus tracks from Loveland the album that was slated for a 2002 release, but was ostensibly shelved after it was rampantly bootlegged on the Internet. Despite the disc's soft focus, Kelly is at the height of his vocal powers, and once he weans himself from the gooey sentimentality and returns to his persona of a smooth seductive operator he'll once again be an artist to be reckoned with. --Jaan Uhelszki
Chocolate Factory Reviews:
Chocolate Heaven 
2009-09-09 - I am in Chocolate Heaven! My CD came right away and in the condition described.
Cogna 
2009-04-30 - Rall. Pichau, pichau. Cogna fiber rasta murden. Calatráqueo randalishi mirmicaro Sotoponcio. Agrara ekklaba tumura.
Sei di fillin humbulache ö Polio tonoporo u, al tag nachana nach alabanca.
mistralapu Pinchu, örnofolio hur tomonolio Pocno. Freca.
Sitedo prenelio. Urtubunchu.
When R Kelly was king part 5 
2009-02-13 - In the midst of personal troubles in his life(pending statutory rape charges), R Kelly did what any R&B singer would do in his position: make a damn good album. Chocolate Factory is the last of the great R Kelly we knew and even as the last album of quality he made, it blows any of these albums made by these new jacks in the game out of the water.
Step In The Name Of Love as well as the remix are sure to get people in to the Stepping mood. Ignition and its remix were certified party starters. Heart Of A Woman, I'll Never Leave, Forever More, You Made Me Love You are vintage R Kelly slow jams. His duet with Ja Rule(Been Around The World) is pretty good as R Kelly sounds off to all his detractors. Big Tigger drops a decent verse on the hot club record Snake.
There are a few songs I could do without. Imagine That is kind of boring and Showdown is more of the R Kelly/Mr. Biggs saga that has been clubbed to death the last couple of albums. Other than that this album is great.
Chocolate Factory is the last of the R Kelly we knew before he lost his mind and decided to cater to the teenagers like that is all his fanbase consists of. There are many of good tracks to be found on here and Chocolate Factory is also more rotational than his last three albums. If you have his first five then call it quits after Chocolate Factory. Because it all goes downhill after this album. *Sigh*
Standouts: STEP IN THE NAME OF LOVE(original and remix), HEART OF A WOMAN, I'LL NEVER LEAVE, FOREVER, IGNITION(original and remix), FOREVER MORE and SNAKE.
not very pleased 
2009-01-09 - I am not very pleased with the company I dealt with for this product. It took me almost a month to get this product.
sounds familiar
2008-07-30 - this is a good album but sounds like all the others. i enjoy this entire album as well.
