Allen Hughes sat down and spoke with ‘Rap Radar’ about his career and made a revelation about the ‘Menace II Society’ soundtrack.
Hughes told the podcast that R. Kelly’s “Bump n’ Grind” was supposed to be on the ‘Menace’ soundtrack before Kelly blew up. “Me and my brother both were EPs on the soundtrack, but everything starts with music for me. So A&R’d the whole album or whatever. I remember the thing that hurt me the most – and I’m gonna air him out right now – was Jive Records’ Barry Weiss. This is before R. Kelly was really big. He only had one album out, and we made a deal that he was gonna give us an original track for the soundtrack.”
Hughes continued, “So I flew to Chicago because R. Kelly and I had the same lawyer. Gave him the Menace VHS tape and the next day I came back and he had a song for me that he wrote to Menace. And I listened to the song, I go, ‘Oh s**t!’ That’s how involved I was in the soundtrack. I called Barry and I said, ‘I just heard R. Kelly’s first No. 1 single.'” However, Hughes was called back and notified that the song was actually going to be Kelly’s first number-one record but that he couldn’t use it for the movie’s soundtrack. Watch above at the 42:03 mark.
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