I've been thinking on this one for a long time, so I thought I'd enter the fray..."I wish", from the album TP-2.com -- released in 2000, at the peak of the Internet-themed album-title bubble -- has always been my favorite Kelly jam. It is truly a heart-breaking lament, dealing simultaneously with the loss of a friend and the tribulations of fame -- far from your textbook "pour a sip on the street" jam.
But the question is: who, exactly, has died? Kelly first gives us this:
How I used to hoop off in them tournaments (With you)
And how I used to club hop on weekends (With you)
So it's his boy, right? I mean, unless it was one of those tournaments where they require one girl on each team, the deceased is definitely a dude.
However, in the chorus we get quite a contrast:
I wish that I could hold you now
I wish that I could touch you now
I wish that I could talk to you, be with you somehow...
Now I'm all for holding and touching my male friends, but I don't really think Mr. Kelly would share that sentiment. So, there are a few possibilities here:
1) He's talking about a baby (I hope this is true).
2) He's talking about a family member (after the whole Lil' Wayne "Yeah I kiss my daddy" thing, I don't think so).
3) He has platonic friends (highly unlikely).
4) He's coming out of the closet (not the one he was trapped in -- the one where homosexuals reside until they make their preference known to others).
I don't know. If it's (4), this is some progressive shit. If it's (1), that baby probably died of club-hopping.
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I'm going to go ahead and assume that R. had one true love in life- that she was such a cool girl they played basketball together AND had fun at clubs together AND they were in love. Then he lost her and he's been filling the void ever since with really, really hot sex with various women.
None of whom ever came close to being as wonderful as this original girl, except for maybe the woman who worked at TBS.
This was the same girl he talked about in Homie Lover Friend...the girl who hung out and kicked it with "they boys" while they all watched pornos.
That is one cool chick!
Wow. I guess I'm going to have to check my thug-life assumptions at the door next time. I'm guessing R.'s relationship with Homie Lover Friend was not a platonic thing (unless the "lover" part refers to Ed Lover), but still, I think we're onto something deep.
Ethan,
It probably was Ed Lover. Dude seems like he was a blast to hang out with and yeah, he's most likely dead.
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