Aug 08 2008
t-time Flashback: Joe Don’t Wanna be a Player
JOE’don’t wanna be a player’
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So Joe has been talking recently about how his career was derailed by R.Kelly of all folk. From Livesteez:
The Grammy winner believes fellow Jive artist R. Kelly was to blame, claiming the singer would call Jive bosses and radio stations and urge them not to promote the singer too heavily, according to reports.
“R. Kelly was very instrumental in making a lot of decisions when it came to my records being played on the radio,” Joe said.
“He would make a call to the radio station or to the label and say, ‘Hey, this Joe record is too hot right now. Y’all (sic) need to pull that back.’ And they would oblige. It’s incredible that now I get the opportunity to, I don’t know, maybe pay (R. Kelly) back in some sort of side bar kind of thing.”
And Joe, who left Jive to release his forthcoming LP New Man through Kedar Entertainment Group, insists that despite R. Kelly’s alleged intervention, he’s still got plenty of stake in the industry.
He says, “I’m still very relevant in the game. But yeah, he did try to make some decisions when it came down to my records being on fire, and climbing up the charts and on the radio stations.”
Seems as Kellz has other activities outside of diddling little girls. Is he really that insecure that he had to (attempt to) destroy Joe’s career? Well, with the music Kelly has been putting out lately, I think he may want to resume is destruction efforts. Haven’t heard form Joe in awhile but his new CD could be mediocre and still be better than that swill Kelly has been releasing.
