Nick Cannon

And we were signed, both signed to Jive.

And, you know, at the time, you know,

Besides the controversy and all that, R. Kelly, even outside being an artist, was one of the hottest producers and writers in the industry.

Now, it's hit records that we all know that people don't want to say R. Kelly did it because of what it is.

He wrote, You're Not Alone with Michael Jackson.

You know what I mean?

Stuff like that.

I went to Chicago and like the way R. Kelly would work, he would make you, he was like, you got to work for these hits.

Like, and so he would, he didn't care who you were, what celebrity, he would make you wait two, three days just in the studio doing nothing.

God knows what he was doing.

But like, it was like, he would, and then he would, I remember this story too.

I told this to Charlie Wilson.

He would play,

midnight basketball or basketball at 2 a.m.

and make everybody from the studio, everybody, he had this whole private, you know, and like everybody had to pass him the ball.

Like he had to be Michael Jordan.

Well, he's Chicago, so he Jordan.

Yeah, that's like, and it was like, he's,

This nigga had concession stands, like a DJ at 2 a.m.

And you would literally see artists sitting in the bleachers waiting.