R. Kelly featuring Shaggy “Flex”
Despite it’s head-scratch-inducing featuring of Shaggy (what is this, the year 2000?; was the usually ubiquitous Sean Paul’s line busy or something?), a backing beat that sounds a little too close to the 2007 Double Up album cut, “Freaky In The Club”, and the fact that it’s basically a lazy re-adaptation of the classic Mad Cobra number of the same name, R. Kelly’s latest leak, “Flex”, still turns out to be yet another one of his effortlessly Grade-A bump & grinders.
Kelly always knows where to go to put a listener in that kind of mood, and he doesn’t disappoint here with a silky, island hop of a groove that easily woos your body into some slow-twisting, suggestive rhythm. Of course, with this being a Pied Piper concoction, we’re served a bunch of lyrical gab not meant for a minor’s ears (though, in his case, you never know…) as well as mandatory stupid-dumb rhymes like “Lamborghini” and “white bikini”, but we’ll ignore his running-in-place creativity (not like we haven’t before) and try our best to temporarily withdraw from those embedded feelings of child-porn-associated ickiness since this surefire bedroom soundtracker rides so damn smooth. It’s just too bad he couldn’t have tracked down Mad Cobra and truly made this joint an official “Flex” redux.
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