R. Kelly Hides From His Lover's Husband In 'The Closet'
04.20.2005 7:13 PM EDT
New single is part one of a five-song drama from his new album.
R. Kelly (file)
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If you think Usher got caught up by a cute female, wait till you get a load of what happened to R. Kelly. He's so enraptured with a girl on his new single, "Trapped in the Closet (Chapter One of Five)," he finds himself hiding from the woman's
husband in the tightest of circumstances.
Embarking on yet another innovation, Kelly's putting a five-song soap opera on his new, still-untitled album, and the first installment finds Kelly cheating on his wife with a married woman.
After Kelly spends the night with his lover, the woman's husband comes home: "Here I am quickly trying to put on my clothes/ Searching for my car keys, trying to get out the door," he sings. "Then she stretched her hands in front of me, saying, 'You can't go this way'/ I looked at her like she was crazy and said, 'Woman, move out of my way.' "
As it turns out, the woman's husband is coming up the stairs and Kelly needs an alternate escape route. He would go out the window, but they're on the fifth floor, so he's relegated to hiding in the closet.
What happens next will be illustrated throughout the next four chapters, which fans can hear when the disc hits stores June 28. In the meantime Kelly has released a remix of "Sex in the Kitchen," and he's also been laying tracks for Charlie Wilson's solo album, which he's executive producing. The former lead singer of the Gap Band can currently be seen in the new Snoop Dogg video, "Signs."
Justin Timberlake and Snoop will appear on Wilson's LP, and producers Dre & Vidal and Scott Storch have been tapped to provide beats. Kelly will be helming at least four tracks on the album, including the title-track first single, "Charlie, Wilson." Charlie, Wilson is due July 12.
— Shaheem Reid
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