Leave Your NameDouble Up
2007
Full verse:
Leave your name right after the beep and I'm
Sure to get back with you
If I'm not asleep or
Smoking on some trees or
Having a little sex or
If I'm not faded or
Making a baby
This comes from an epic song that's written as if it were R. Kelly's outgoing message on his answering machine. Or it might just actually BE his outgoing message for all I know. Whatever it is, it's genius. The entire message is jammed packed with information about a typical night for R.- drinking too much Hennessey, hanging out in hotel lobbies and then going to after parties (two activities we already know he enjoys), sleeping in the club, starting fights. It's really a great window into the real R.... This chorus is especially informative because it breaks it all down for us. Basically, here's how it works: If you're R. Kelly you will at all times be doing one of 5 things. Sleeping, smoking pot, having sex, being faded, or making a baby. (That last one not be confused with the third). Thanks for simplifying it for us, R.!!
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I think this might be one of my favorite R. Kelly songs. He talks about how he throws up and has someone drive him home and how he can't get into his house easily because his vision is blurry because he's so drunk. It's written with so much humility. It's not exciting, awesome things like flying in private jets that he's doing. It's very run of the mill things that we've all done. I feel like there should be a verse about his upstairs neighbor in the duplex yelling at him for making so much noise in the backyard or something. Or not being able to get to sleep because he drank too much sparks.
Also, did you know R. writes and produces everything himself? That makes sense. It's not you could write sex planet and seriously ask another human being to sing it.
actually, if you're R. Kelly, you might be doing a sixth thing as implied by this singing message -- you *might* be in the long process of getting back to all the hundreds of people who called you while you were doing the other five things.
This is in response to r&b fan 1988:
I know for a fact that he identifies with this song: One time, he couldn't get into my house easily because his vision was blurry because he was so drunk. So he ripped a hole in my window screen. It's still there. What an a-hole.
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