Last month at Copenhagen Fashion Week, some guy from Vice Scandinavia took my photo and wanted to ask me a few questions about music. The first query was "what are you listening to these days", and I went on about I'm back on the late 90's/early 00's R&B tip, with some SWV, TLC, Jodeci, and especially R. Kelly. And then he SCOFFED! "R. KELLY?!?! HAHAHAHAHA". I almost slapped a ho, seriously. So mad. Anyway, Vice Scandinavia dude, this post is for you!


#1) IGNITION (REMIX)



Not only my favorite R.Kelly song ever, Ignition (REMIX) could possibly be in my top-5 songs of all time - I gotta think on that one some more. It's the only song that'll get me to do karaoke (at The Selby window at Colette, last Paris Fashion Week, thankfully no pics/videos), and spawned an epic thread on a dorky music message board I'm on of 100 Reasons This Song is So Damned Great.

Favorite line: "It's like murder she wrote / Once I get you out them clothes / Privacy is on the door / But still they can hear you screamin' "more more".


#2) BUMP N' GRIND (OLD SKOOL REMIX)



I think this is the first of R. Kelly's songs where the b-side remix eclipsed the original. I still have this cassingle somewhere in the basement of my mama's house... One of my prized possessions, along with a Carlton Fisk rookie baseball card and my NYU diploma (ha ha...), an artifact of my youth that'll someday be a collector's item. Or is it already?

Favorite line: "So show me some I.D. / Before I get knee deep into you" -- Uhhhhhh, wait, what?


#3) FEELIN' ON YO' BOOTY (HYPNOSIS REMIX)



Three songs, three remixes. This one is possibly a more obscure 'hit' of his - It's on the 12" of "Feelin' on Yo' Booty", which I bequeathed to my old roommate Eliot Lipp when we moved out of that loft with the collapsed ceiling... Errr, kinda a weird video though, sorry!

Favorite line: "Come here girl, give daddy a hug / Don't play me like one of them scrubs / Girl if you don't get your ass off up here and get your ass in this TUB!!"


SEE #4-#10 AFTER THE JUMP

This is one of my favorite Tokyo photos ever! So ridiculously adorable, with the stripey shirt and the scarf tied to the bag. His name is Munakata, and he's a little shy...

Then Fiona in Copenhagen with a VINTAGE net cardigan thing over a Harley Davidson t-shirt and a feather necklace, Kell in Paris with a belted ZARA jacket and really short shorts and some sort of spat/legging thing, Azza Yousif in casual clothes with BALENCIAGA shoes, a dude in Paris with a black karate'ish vest number, and Saba in Stockholm wearing a cut-out white top and cut off denim shorts.

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