After hearing the song above, some of you might have already guessed what R. Kelly Syndrome is, but if you haven't, don't feel bad, that's why I'm here.
R. Kelly Syndrome (or RKS) is when an older artist is so desperate to stay relevant they start following the trends/styles of newer artists, who followed them coming up, instead of being creative on their own. This syndrome derives from when R. Kelly, one of the greatest and most decorated R&B singers of all-time, started riding the coattail of T-Pain and began using auto-tune. The sound was around for the entire 1990s, in which Kelly dominated, but he didn't see fit to use it until T-Pain re-popularized it? Nope, you can't get away with that on FiyahMuZik.com, what do I look like, the judge on your child pornography case? I hold people accountable for their musical actions, so Kellz gets to be the face of this syndrome.
Anyway, Lil Kim is now suffering from RKS because even though Nicki Minaj wants to be Lil Kim, Lil Kim now wants to be Nicki Minaj. You can hear it in her voice, her delivery, the lyrics, this record has Nicki Minaj written all over it.
Now, some of you may be thinking "Lil Kim doesn't write her own lyrics, its not her fault." I can see how some would think that, but at the end of the day, Kim has the final say on which songs and verses she wants to record (whether she wrote the lyrics or not), therefore she was a willing participant.
Its just all so sad, the Queen Bee has been reduced to a worker bee. I wonder who's next?
