R. Kelly 'Trapped In The Closet': Singer Ready To Film 32 More Chapters

Who could forget R. Kelly's stroke of sheer soap operatic brilliance back in 2005 when, out of nowhere, the R&B singer released a curious song series called "Trapped in the Closet"? Sure, much of it was fairly standard -- one-night stands, sex, and lies -- but it was the truly bizarre -- a neighbor with a spatula, a midget who battles with incontinence -- that kept us captivated for the 22 chapters Kelly would eventually release, and catapulted the series from to entertaining to epic. It also sparked a number of parodies, from "Saturday Night Live" to "South Park."

Now Kelly says he's back with more of his beloved "hip hopera" -- his terminology, not ours -- with a whopping 32 new chapters. The 44-year-old "I Believe I Can Fly" singer told TMZ that he's game to film nearly three dozen new chapters, but not without a little funding first.

"It costs a lot of money to do... so we're actually looking for investors," Kelly said.

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Comments

[Ty LaRue]

12:42 PM on 12/22/2011

Robert Kelly and Sandusky should go back in the closet and enjoy each other's company

[OnandUpwards2011]

10:47 AM on 12/22/2011

This guy should be in jail......have no respect for him.

[Michael Ajakwe]

08:31 AM on 12/22/2011

The picture in this article about R-Kelly (the main photo) IS NOT R-Kelly.

[Conk]

09:33 AM on 12/22/2011

Looks just like the dude that sang on X Factor last night. It IS R Kelly.

[Zed 0]

01:59 AM on 12/22/2011

Did anyone else, seeing this headline before you clicked it, totally thought 14 year old got golden showered again?

[Bootzey Jones]

09:56 AM on 12/22/2011

Teehee!

[kiran1207]

11:15 PM on 12/21/2011

The funniest thing I ever saw I am laughing already

[burtongrl]

11:07 PM on 12/21/2011

Kelly's stroke of sheer soap operatic brilliance ....please I'd rather listen to someone take a dump than that drawn out mess.....pedo cre.ep

[DarkTruths]

10:48 PM on 12/21/2011

I'm guessing there are 14-year-old girls trapped in that closet somewhere.

[Sherifah Rafiq Lobo]

12:54 AM on 12/22/2011

Pretty much!!!.. That should have been the lead in to EVERY story posted about him for all time.

[robXdion]

08:49 PM on 12/21/2011

Now sing-a-long everybody . .

" . . .the midget is the baby's daddy!" LOL!!

[donbrown]

10:13 PM on 12/21/2011

LOL!!

'The Help' Chosen Best Film Of 2011 By Black Film Critics Circle

[robXdion]

12:55 AM on 12/22/2011

Really? You need help.

Responding with an irrelevant topic to an old argument from what . . . .3-4 months ago?

Did I affect you THAT badly? You probably dream about me. And how does the Black Film Critics Circle has any credibility in determining what is self-respecting to the black image? Relatively unknown and innocuously trite. Blacks in entertainment and media (this means you too) have abdicated simple logic and self-respect long ago in order to merely taste success on white terms even if it means denigrating yourselves. And you wonder why some problems are self-propagating?

[pederstriannw]

07:04 PM on 12/21/2011

OK, I know what I say will be wretchedly unpopular, but those episodes got surprisingly funny. AND, even watching just a few seconds makes Weird Al's 'Trapped in the Drive thru' that much funnier.

[auramac]

05:51 PM on 12/21/2011

He sucks, and I wouldn't enable him anyway.

[LittleRedEngine]

05:29 PM on 12/21/2011

I love his music, except those looooooooooooooooooong drawn out songs that he thinks are operas. lol

[chancefavors]

11:14 AM on 12/22/2011

I used to love his music.

[Absolute]

05:25 PM on 12/21/2011

creep

[cameron d]

04:35 PM on 12/21/2011

The first 22 chapters of Trapped in the Closet are either a work of staggering genius or insanity. It doesn't matter which to me because I loved it either way.

Here's hoping for more Omar in the next 32!

[pab08]

03:18 PM on 12/21/2011

"does it again" is the headline.
You know what I thought it meant. Thought I had to lock up my underage teenage daughter.

[Ccouncil]

04:18 PM on 12/21/2011

lol I thought so too. Just before I read it I ran up to the roof top shouting, "hide your children, the pied piper is in town!!!"

[pab08]

04:47 PM on 12/21/2011

Peed piper.........

[DamonIcke]

03:17 PM on 12/21/2011

Like Jackson, Polanski, and the catholic church, there's nothing Kelly could do that would put off die hard fans.