Another R&B Crooner Goes At R.Kelly, Joe Says R. Kelly Was Sabotaging His Career!
Date: 08/07/08 | By Njai Joszor
Filed under: R&B News, Joe
After 11 years on Jive Records, R&B singer Joe discovered a pattern of stalled promotions and adjusted radio play all linking to one man – R.Kelly.
In a surprising interview with EURweb’s Lee Bailey this week, the R&B star talked about his shocking discovery after leaving Jive Records earlier this year, which is also home to R.Kelly. Calling the singer/songwriter out as the man behind stalled records and promotion, Joe says “R. Kelly was very instrumental in making a lot of decisions when it came to my records being played on the radio, He would make a call to the radio station or to the label and say, 'Hey, this Joe record is too hot right now. Ya’ll need to pull that back.' And they would oblige.”
Joe is not the first R&B crooner to address R.Kelly, Ne-Yo who was booted from R.Kelly’s tour last year, sued the ‘Pied Piper’ in January as a result of a highly publicized “feud” that R.Kelly allegedly had with the “Miss Independent” singer. Kelly was reported to have had a problem with the attention Ne-Yo was receiving as an opening act and promptly removed him from the tour shortly after it started.
Since his 1993 debut “Everything,” Joe and R.Kelly have released albums and singles under Jive around the same time including 2003's “And Then” and “Chocolate Factory” respectively. Ironically, R.Kelly produced Joe’s hit single “More & More” which reached #15 on the R&B charts that year followed by the G-Unit collaboration “Ride Wit You.”
Despite their work together in 2003, Joe says R.Kelly put pressure on Jive executives and radio stations to pull back on promoting his records when the singles appeared to be getting to much attention. “He did try to make some decisions when it came down to my records being on fire, and climbing up the charts and on the radio stations” says Joe.
Now that Joe has a new home with Kedar Entertainment/Universal, where he will release two new albums, he says “It's incredible that now I get the opportunity to, I don't know, maybe pay [R. Kelly] back in some sort of side bar kind of thing." He does stress however, that he did not know what was truly going on until after he left Jive six months ago.
Joe’s highly anticipated album “New Man,” the follow up to his 2007 effort “Ain't Nothin' Like Me” is due for release September 22nd. Another album, currently untitled, is expected to hit stores next year.
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..AND WHY PEOPLE STILL CALL THIS IDIOT KING OF R&B IS JUST AMZING...COMPARE AND CONTRAST, IN TERMS OF ALBUM SALES AND PERFORMANCE USHER IS WAY AHEAD, VOCALS AND LYRICS AND JOE WILL KILL THIS CHEAP ASS SEX RHETORICIST, PERSONALITY AND CONDUCT AND THE IDIOT IS NO WORSER THAN THE ILLETERATE HOODLUM THAT HE IS
r kelly fanatism, the opium of the stupid lot. umm cast our minds back,... how did mr, kells earn the epitet KING OF R&B, SOME DUMB ASS MAGAZINE CAME SCREAMING IT....and me seriously believe mr. kelly had 'behind the scenes speceial request' for the favour....and as he predicted all gullible idiots and musical half wits jumped unto the band wagon....robert kelly sings with patronage of the people as his stock in trade...he knows if he sings inspiration idiots will easily buy into it so he does,...his signature tune is i believe i can fly ....sentimental bulls*** easily catches on with idiots.....
Somebody said Joe doesn't appeal to todays crowd 5!!! What a f*** wit ! And R kelly at 42, who can sing by the way.. Does ???? . Who exactly does he appeal to .. Let me guess- half wit, simple minded dumb nuts. R kelly has sold his gift to the devil .. So now everything he sings even at 42 is licking sucking, sticking.. Utterly disturbingly creepy if you ask me. Joe keep up the good work
I think that NONE of y'all know what happened. More and More artists are saying this man is doing this that and the third, and y'all like "oh he would neva do that" you don't know WHAT he would do. I am hearing differences between yall so called r kelly fans. first yall are like "he doesnt have the power to do that" but then yall are like "he is the king of R&B". Does he control iish or not??? I am not saying that Joe is telling the truth but all yall are riding Kells DICK, for WHAT reason??? I mean I LOVE Ne-Yo, and I LOVE R.Kelly, But are yall so retarded that you dont see a patern in his behavior? If what Joe says is true, then YALL are the reason that he is like that!
THE SCANDDLE WITH NE-YO,RHAMEIM DEVAUGH AND JOE ESPECIALLY WITH RD WHERE THE SONG CUSTOMER WAS TOTALLY REMIXXED BY R.KELLY W/O RD AND HAS GOTTEN MAJOR AIR PLAY SO WOULD'NT THERE BE A REASON TO QUESTION THAT. I DONT KNOW JUST A THOUGHT .
JOE'S MUSIC IS SENTIOUS, SEXY AND HAS A SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE TO IT'S CONTENTS . HEY, YALL THIS IS GROWN FOLK MUSIC HE'S A GROWN MAN WHAT CAN I SAY HE HAS EARNED IS PLACE AND TURNED UP THE HEAT IN THE BEDROOM EVEN IN THE SUMMER TIME NOW YOU CAN GET WIT THAT OR LEAVE IT ALONE . QUEEN.
IN CASE YOU ALL HAVEN'T HEARD THE SONG CUSTOMER THERE ARE TWO VERSION ONE BY R. DEVAUGH AND THE OTHER BY R. KELLY WITHOUT RD. NOW YOU GUYS DO THE MATH WAS THIS COOL .
@ Jay Love It's YOU that is dumb, and you need to shut up. What gives you the right to judge people? You and the rest of the haters need to look beyond your OWN faults and stop talking about someboy elses. If you're NOT a fan of R. Kelly, THAT'S YOUR BUSINESS. Keep it to yourself. As far as Joe's situation, he's another individual who is trying to start a war with Kellz. He has nothing to do with Joe's singing career being so-called sabotaged. Joe has sabotaged his OWN career, period.
Let me put my 2 cents. Why are some of you believing in all of this crap. We don't know what the hell had happened. Don't blame Kellz for sabotaging your career, Joe. You need to blame it on your former record company. Kellz has his own thing, and you have yours. Kellz does NOT control nobody's career but HIS!
R. kelly has NOTHIN' to do with Joe's career being sabotaged. Kellz had given this man 2 of his songs, and now he blames Kellz for his career going down the drain. Joe had did it to HIMSELF! Why are y'all listening to these petty lies? Now that Joe is on another label, who he's gonna blame next? I'm waiting fo rKellz to put his foot down on all of his haters! BTW, Eww, and Lo-Key, GO PEE ON YOUR MAMAS!