R Kelly has been all about romance on his last two albums, but the self-proclaimed Pied Piper of R&B says he isn’t going to abandon the explicit music that helped make him famous.

“Absolutely not, and I tell people all the time man,” Kelly said in a phone interview last week. “Make no mistake about it, R Kelly is not going anywhere, it’s just that R Kelly has such a unique talent, and I’ve been blessed to be able to do all type of genres of music … I’m exploring my gift right now.”