As far as R. Kelly controversy is concerned, Joe's accusations that Kellz tried to hurt his career by getting his singles pulled off the radio are fairly tame. But that doesn't mean they aren't strange. Joe said, "R. Kelly was very instrumental in making a lot of decisions when it came to my records being played on the radio. He would make a call to the radio station or to the label and say, 'Hey, this Joe record is too hot right now. Yall need to pull that back. And they would oblige."

Even if this is true, it didn't seem to hurt Joe too much, as he stil managed two platinum albums and three gold ones during his time as Kelly's Jive label mate. Still, why would Jive do this, and where is Joe hearing this from? None of it quite adds up, but then again few things do when it comes to the pied piper of R&B.