Culture candy: #askrkelly hashtag officially out of control

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Earlier today, R. Kelly proudly announced that “Black Panties have dropped!” The panties in question actually refer to his album, which released today, and is designed to be something of a return to sexy bedroom music of the “12Play” variety. Somewhere along the way, he also said he’d answer any and all questions sent to the #askrkelly hashtag on Twitter. And that’s when things got, well, icky.

There was this:

And this:

And this:

Or this:

And then even celeb Claudia Jordan had to get into it with this:

It was difficult to find any actual questions that Kells actually answered, but someone on his account did tweet the following:

What would you ask R. Kelly? Hit him up. Use the hashtag though.

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