In June 2022, R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. As of January 2025, he is incarcerated at a federal prison in North Carolina.

It would not be unreasonable to regard R. Kelly's revisionist-soul album Love Letter as a plea for sanity in an era of mediocre chart-toppers, especially if one considers that, as the single most ...