"Right Back," among the deepest and most bittersweet songs in the man's catalog, expresses gratitude to close friends.
The low-slung "My Story" is a bit debauched but details his rise to fame. "You Deserve Better," a winding and atmospheric ballad, is typically materialistic but sweet this time, when he sings about cracking lobster, it's in reference to dining, not his woman's back. The sinister boom-and-twinkle of "Cookie," mostly about servicing, would probably place fourth. Awestruck lines like "And if I'm ever in the mood for two pussies, then a pussy will bring another pussy to me" allow "Marry the Pu**y" to eclipse Jaheim's "P**** Appreciation Day" and the-Dream's "P*ssy" as 2013's most extreme ode to tubular tracts. That doesn't mean that Kelly never throws it into overdrive. Even when Kelly brags about back breaking and promises to "beat that pussy 'til it's blue," there's not much evidence of fresh creativity or exertion. However, it's sleepy more often than it is seductive - ironically less youthful than his two previous albums. All the material is slow and mostly pared down, made to maximize space for his still generous supply of hooks and outlandish lines. Kelly, joined by a deep roster of fellow songwriters and producers, dispenses with the strings, horns, and dashing charm, and dishes out sleaze by the bucket over modern backdrops that slink and whir. Kelly reverts to sexually exaggerated and wholly contemporary content for Black Panties. After Love Letter and Write Me Back, classy and relatively polite throwback albums, R.
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