At his final viewing Thursday afternoon, it wasn't obvious whether the pants of the late Chris Kelly's dark, double-breasted suit were on backwards; but there was little doubt after the two-hour-plus service that there lay a beloved son and friend, a global superstar, and still-going style rule breaker.

There were the black letters in the lid of the handsome, two-tone open casket that read, "'Cause That's What I Was Born To Do…" (A reference to the chorus from his multimillion-selling hip hop group's hit, "Warm It Up.")