JOE ACCUSES R. KELLY OF SABOTAGING HIS CAREER....

Not content with pissing on minors, R. Kelly has also pissed on Joe's parade or so he says. As Joe and R. Kelly were both R&B singers on the same record label (Jive) doing similar music, R. Kelly considered Joe too much of a rival and tried to sabotage the 34-year-old's music career. He claims the Pied Piper pressurized radio DJs not to play his music. Joe has been with Jive for 11 years and released six albums throughout. But earlier this year he left the label when they kept pushing back his album.

Here's what Joe had to say about the incident: "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. 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. 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. He felt like they should pull back because he felt he was more important. And with their loyalty to him, they obliged". Being that R. Kelly is one of Jive's biggest sellers alongside Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, this news doesn't surprise me at all especially since R. Kelly has been known to spit at any rival who he deems a threat. When Ne-yo supported R. Kelly on his tour last year, R. Kelly kicked him off it because he was getting MUCH better reviews from critics than the actual headliner. I guess there can only be one artist to dominate a certain field, though I don't see anything wrong with a little bit of healthy competition because competition also builds up interest and can also boost sales. Just ask Kanye West and 50 Cent. Joe will now release his new album through Kedar Entertainment Group later this year.