R. Kelly

Rufus begins to pray
"God, if you can hear me now"
"Please change impossible to somehow"

"Mrs. Longs, wait"
"I've waited long enough"
"But your husband's in there in pieces"
"Yeah, well I'm tired of pickin' 'em up"
"Oh, you don't wanna be like that"
"Where's this damn elevator?"
"In fact, I don't think you really mean that"
"Yeah, I don't, and what do you know?"
"I know you're pressing the elevator"
"Yeah, and?"
"And we on the first floor"
"Well I'll just take the stairs"
"That would be the basement, Cathy, wait"
"Now, sometimes we all make mistakes" ("Mmm")
"But that doesn't mean we can't get better, no"
"Don't run away"

"Now you got a man in there, fightin' for y'all marriage, on his knees"
"Yeah, well what am I supposed to do about it, when that man hurt me so deep?"
"Yeah, but that's why you both are here"
"To work it out"
"Yeah, but what is there to work out, when he s-" ("Shh, shh")
"When he said he was still in love with that man, ooh oh"
"I know, now listen to me"
"See, once upon a time I had this couple"
"And they both were [?] about their struggle"
"And I just couldn't get them to understand, the purpose for a woman and man"
"Side to side, better or for worse, a marriage"
"Yeah, but what's that got to do with me and Rufus?"
"With you and Rufus? Everything, Cathy"
"'Cause that same couple broke up fifteen years ago and to this day, they still not happy"
"Haunted by their past, and what if" ("Oooh")
"And I just think you guys got a real chance here"

Now meanwhile, Rufus is prayin' real hard, goin' in
On his knees in the doctor's office askin' God to forgive him for his sins
"God, help me, I'm so confused, and I just don't know what to do"
"And you know that I love my wife, but Chuck is so hard to lose"
"Help!"
"I really, really wanna forgive him but it's the hardest"
"I know"
"Help!"
"But in all fairness, Cathy, you did have a man in your closet"
"Help!"
"Look, you can do this"
"You said if I called on you, you would be there, now what are you gonna do?"
"Rufus, I, baby I forgive you"
"We'll work it out"
"Yes"
"We'll work it out"
"Oh"
"We'll work it out"
"I love you"
"I love you too"

"I, uh. I mean I really don't know what to say here, what-"
("Talk about your life")
"Huh?"
("Chuck, your wife Cathy")
"What?"
("You know, talk all about you having an affair")
"What?"
("With another man")
"Wait a minute, that wasn't the plan"
("Did you sleep with Chuck?")
"Sir, if you want to talk about the church and what it's doing for the community, you talk to me"
("But the paper said-")
"I am a pastor and I'm not here to put my family's business out on the streets"
("Yeah that's right, you a pastor, so why is confession so hard?")
"It's not, it's just that the only one I need to be confessing to is God"
("Sir, will you be-")
"This is over"
("Will you be appearing on the show-")
"God bless you, and thank you"
("You can't do this. Does Chuck have AIDS? Is that what the package is?")
("Sir? Sir, are you gonna answer the question?")

Robert Kelly is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer from the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, where he first started performing under the “L” subway tracks as a teenager. This led into his first album, Born Into the 90’s, being released in 1992 as a collaboration between R. Kelly and Public Announcement. R. Kelly wrote and produced the entire album, which contained the #1 R&B hits “Honey Love” and “Slow Dance,” along with the Top 10 R&B hits “She’s Got That Vibe” (#7) and “Dedicated” (#9). The following year, Kelly went on to become a solo act.

In 1993, he released his first solo album, 12 Play, featuring the hits “Bump N' Grind” and “Your Body’s Callin'.” He released a self-titled album in 1995 featuring the hits “Down Low (Nobody Has To Know)” and “You Remind Me of Something,” while his 1998 double album, R., featured a string of hits, including “I Am Your Angel” with Celine Dion, “When a Woman’s Fed Up,” and his Grammy Award-winning song “I Believe I Can Fly” from the Space Jam soundtrack.

The success of these albums led to him becoming an in-demand producer in the ‘90s, writing and producing #1 hits for Aaliyah (“Back & Forth”), Janet Jackson (“Any Time, Any Place (Remix)”), Changing Faces (“G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T”), Maxwell (“Fortunate”), and Michael Jackson (“You Are Not Alone”).

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Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23–33

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Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23–33

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Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23–33