April 23, 2010


The King's back. Not that one. One of the legendary Kings Of R&B, Ron “Mr. Biggs” Isley has been released from prison after serving three years for tax evasion.

Speaking with comedian Steve Harvey, Isley said:

“I'm overjoyed to be home and to be able to do everything that I want to do. I'm in love with this record business and I'm in love with the fans and everything and I just couldn't wait to get back to doing that.

I'm working on another album and this album is gonna mean so much. I've been thinking about it for 3 years and wondering what it was gone be like and what it was gonna be like to sing certain songs and wanting to sing certain songs and now I got that chance to do that.”

Mr. Biggs also spoke on how the stint behind the wall changed his life and his families.

“It changed me a whole lot. My wife was able to visit me like three days a week and my son so that was the great thing about it. It was a little 3-hour drive for her to come to the camp where I was and I was able to get through because of that. That 3 days was everything to me man.

[But I'm home now] The family is fine. My son is 3 years old and he's with me everyday. Me and him boy, Little Ronald.”

Isley also used his time behind bars to speak with his fellow brothers on lockdown and performed for them as well. Explaining some of the realities of being locked down, he states,

“…Talking to young people and crying with them and people that were gonna be in there some years and that part really hurts. To see your people and all kinds of people… older people [locked up]. And they looked up to me and like my music and we talked about our career and it was just like that man. I was working at the chapel and I did gospel shows every week and that kept me up… I'm gone do a gospel album too.”

But before the gospel project, Ron Isley is working on a new album for Def Jam and promises that the new album will be something different.

“Some of the people that I'm working with on this album will be Lauryn Hill, T.I., Rick Ross and Burt Bacharach. The group is back and they were just waiting. I would like to also thank L.A. Reid and the staff at Def Jam and Fox Entertainment and Elise Murray.

Just all the people that were just waiting for me to come home and for putting this together and supporting everything I'm doing. I feel like I'm 18 again and starting a new career.”

Isley will also be making his return starting Mother's Day Weekend when he'll hit the stage in Atlantic City on May 8th and at The Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, NY on May 9th.

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[Edited 5/27/10 11:13am]

Hope he got rid of that Mr. Biggs title. Why is he still working with rappers?

Timmy84 said:

I know! Please, let that go.

pay your taxes, all of it.

I wish Ron well and good health, though.

Timmy84 said:

I hope his son took after his baby mama. Anyway, the real question is, why is he working with Lauryn Hill's crazy ass?!

TD3 said:

That should be the title of his new CD.

uPtoWnNY said:

How about "I'm Out of Jail" now that's a good rap/r&b album.

uPtoWnNY said:

you ain't right.

but on second thought.

LMAO. I forgot he was even in jail.

Timmy84 said:

Sad ain't it? An artist of his stature still trying to appeal to the rap audience.

no one has called but my homies and some billcollectors.

Timmy84 said:

Why? that's what most people know him by anyway

midiscover said:

Not me. I remember a time he wasn't referred to that.

Identity said:

It makes me want to shout!

Identity said:

A diverse artist at that. He did rock and soul real well in the '60s and '70s.

Timmy84 said:

Me too

Timmy84 said:

I wish I can remember a time when he wasn't fat...BTW, he was never the best looking one in the group anyway.

NastradumasKid said:

NastradumasKid said:

Chris Jasper was the pretty boy in the group.

Timmy84 said:

He wasn't even related to them, except through marriage.

NastradumasKid said:

Exactly.

Timmy84 said:

You're mean!!! Well, I hope Ron learned his lesson about paying your taxes and stealling your brother's royalty checks...I doubt it. And I really do want to know what he son looks like...dude already has children and a bunch of grandkids...by the time, that kid is in his 20s, Ron will be .

NastradumasKid said:

Yeah he was in failing health before he entered prison. Wonder how he's doing...

Shame on all of ya'll.

Jasper doesn't look all that good now, he looks a lil' strange.


I never thought the Isley Brothers were all that bad looking but I like and find masculint looking men attractive.

Timmy84 said:

Yeah, had Kidney problems I believe, I was actually following up on this since 2006. I did a report on this when I was 15 and everyone in my class was grossed out when they found out about him have a kid.

TD3 said:

Well I ain't the one saying they were ugly. Matter of fact of the actual brothers, Rudy was the handsomest of them.

He can keep that bullshit he's working on.

vainandy said:

Its gonna flop anyway.

midiscover said:

Timmy84 said:

WHo the fuck still listens to Rick Ross's fat ass?

NastradumasKid said:

Beats me.

Timmy84 said:

OK. I thought I was reading something to that effect.

I had a crush on Rudy.

don't be messin' with my Isley's...muttering to oneself.