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80Overlong, but Chocolate Factory is an impressively varied opus. [May 2003, p.100]
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80The singer's most mature work to date. [Apr 2003, p.173]
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Ranks among the best work of his career.
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70Channeling greats from Gaye to Wonder, his stripped-down bangers bang harder, his ballads have more gospel bluster, and he sings with the desperation of a loveman who knows the cops are waiting at his bedroom door.
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Chocolate Factory is filled with the sort of come-ons and honeyed promises that even cut-rate dive-bar lotharios would dismiss as hopelessly cheesy, but Kelly stitches them together with such craft and invests them with such conviction that they become a strange sort of pulp poetry.
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It's largely a collection of the sort of steamy, silky slow jams at which Kelly has always excelled.
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Solid and pleasing, if somewhat predictable.
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40Almost a novelty record--a musical version of a press release or a spin-control interview with Diane Sawyer. [#14, p.128]
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40As ever, songs veer between the nigglingly infectious and cliched slush. [May 2003, p.109]
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25Declawed and hesitant, it's hard to get excited about this piece of funkless confection.
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TINAI10R. Kelly is the best.
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TrayvonT10R. Kellys the best R&B singer since he's came out and believe me when I say this he can rap better than most rappers.
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shaawntas10this is the ****