R. Kelly is an artist who is very much convinced of his own genius and whose R&B songs traffic in cliches and aphorisms and strained metaphors of the most shameless sort. (Also, it would seem that he has a predilection for young girls and freaky sex.) We are used to reading these things--the cliches, not the freaky sex--as the mark of an unsophisticated artist, but it is not true that cliche and sop