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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Jive
Salesrank: 246
Released: December 1, 2009 |
| Our Price: $10.44 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Untitled Track Listing:
1. Crazy Night featuring R. City
2. Exit
3. Echo
4. Bangin' The Headboard
5. Go Low
6. Whole Lotta Kisses
7. Like I Do
8. Number One featuring Keri Hilson
9. I Love The DJ
10. Supaman High featuring OJ Da Juiceman
11. Be My #2
12. Text Me
13. Religious
14. Elsewhere
15. Pregnant featuring Tyrese, Robin Thicke and The-Dream
Editorial Review:
UK edition includes 2009 release, the ninth album from the R&B superstar. Working with a wide variety of producers and writers for the first time, R. Kelly is broadening his creative ties. This expansion results in an album combining classic, edgy R. Kelly with younger breakthrough side-artists and producers. Untitled features the breakout track 'Supaman High' featuring OJ Da Juice Man and the first official single, 'Number One' featuring Keri Hilson.
Untitled Reviews:
R. Kelly untitled 
2009-12-27 - This album is fairly decent, being an R. Kelly fan I'm a little disappointed. Although there are still some very good songs and I have found that this album is growing on me. He could have done better though.
Tenrag 
2009-12-23 - Great album, a mixture of classic and new school styles, favourite tracks are "Elsewhere, Echo, Like I Do, Number One and Pregnant"
Great Come Back
2009-12-23 - I really like this new cd. It is a great mixture. As always, R Kelly has not failed me!
What Happened 
2009-12-21 - I just can not get into this album. I'm a terribly dissapointed fan. I miss the old Rkelly, the TP2 Rkelly the red album double disk RKelly. This album is garbage.
Solid, Though Not R.'s Most Exciting Album
2009-12-21 - Untitled proves to be another solid, though conservative R. Kelly effort. For the first time, perhaps, R. Kelly begins to show his age (42) on this set, despite the fact it is another quality offering from the R&B Vet's discography. As always, Kelly is in good voice, though he does come over as a bit restrained at times. Ultimately, the hardcore R. Kelly fans that buy and listen to this album will long for slightly more inspired material at times. Personally, I preferred Kelly's more hip-hop oriented set Double Up over this safer set, though some fans thought 'Kells' overstepped his boundaries on that set. All in all, it is a satisfactory album, though not Kelly's most memorable set.
"Crazy Night", featuring R. City, proves to be one of Untitled's more innovative, worthwhile listens, finding Kells supported by a skeletal hip-hop driven beat during the verses. "Exit", the follow-up, is typical R. Kelly at his best and proves to be well produced and Kelly sounds inspired enough. "Echo" also lays well, if slightly annoying, though it is the 'tried-and-true' R. Kelly record. "Banging the Headboard" is certainly no miss either, though it is definitely superseded by the more inspired "Go Low", which sounds most like classic R. Kelly, updated for 2009. The production takes cues from 2005's TP.3 Reloaded's "Remote Control". It is definitely a stand-out from this tame Kelly set.
"Whole Lotta Kisses" is a nice sensual, old-school jam, also very much signature Kelly. Here, some of Kelly's neo-soul side comes out, much like it did on one of his best albums of the 00s, Chocolate Factory. The horns (synthesized mind you), within the production hearken back to R&B/Soul's glory days of the 1970s. "Like I Do" uses the signature 'icy' drums popularized by The-Dream/Tricky, though it is produced by someone aside from the popular production team. Again, it isn't innovative, but it is a solid performance by Kells.
"Number One", featuring R&B newcomer/standout Keri Hilson, is solid, though I thought it was an odd choice to release as a first single. It never picked up, understandably, as Kelly has released better singles. The chemistry between Hilson and Kelly's vocals is great. "I Love The DJ" is fine, though the somewhat clunky, though fun "Supaman High" featuring OJ Da Juiceman is more alluring. Released as an early single, it never caught on either, and one might even argue it is too hip-hop for Kelly, a new-jack swing veteran. "Be My #2" is enjoyable, though I can't say that I truly love Kelly with this production work behind him.
"Text Me" is OK, though it is "Religious" that proves to be the valedictory performance of the album. Corny? Yes, but we must remember, we are talking about R. Kelly. On "Religious", R. Kelly achieves more of the grit he achieves on past albums that one might argue is missing more on 'Untitled.' "Elsewhere" finds Kelly in great voice (great tone) while "Pregnant" closes the album featuring an all-star cast (Tyrese, Robin-Thicke, and The-Dream).
Overall, Untitled isn't a flashy album, directly contrasting the indulgence into hip-hop that pervaded 2007's Double Up. Not Kelly's best album and perhaps arguably his least memorable (think the underrated Happy People/U Saved Me), but it is a solid, enjoyable album nonetheless. 3.5 - 4 stars.
