I can’t tell y’all how I thought that it was going to be the lightest of crowds up in the Family Arena Friday for R. Kelly. I was assuming that it was going to be the attendance nightmare experienced by New Edition, but I was dead wrong – even though R. Kelly was only lying to himself when he proclaimed it was 20,000 people at the show. I was like “unless there is another 14,000 watching via satellite all up and through Ameristar, he ain’t foolin’ anybody with that number.” It was packed, but it didn’t even look like 10,000, let alone 20,000. He had a near sell-out, but word on the curb is that the venue was scaled to 7,500. But let’s get on with it. “Real Housewives of Atlanta” sidekick Demetria McKinney was the opening act. I was expecting her little portion of the show to be the pits – and again I’m willing to admit that I was wrong. She has a decent voice and the thing was cuter than I expected as she did a couple of originals wrapped around several cover tunes.