![]() ![]() He’s forced to hide in the bedroom closet when Cathy hears her husband, Rufus, coming up the stairs. Kelly) wakes up in the bed of a strange woman (Cathy) whom he picked up the previous evening in a nightclub. Kelly’s 23 “chapter” R&B opus, here’s a brief synopsis. The fact is that Trapped in the Closet is hilarious, moronic and brilliant all at the same time, and that the ‘hip hopera’ – with its 33 episodes since 2012 and another 40 to go – has made it to the status of wrong cult classic.For readers who have not yet caught up with Trapped in the Closet, R. ![]() The exorbitant universe created by Kelly is so over the top that public reactions range from awe and hysterical fascination to complete disapproval and bewilderment, from ‘the new Monteverdi or Dostoevski’ to ‘so bad that it's going to be good’. Soon, the series goes into overdrive with story lines about corrupt cops, horny neighbours, dwarfs, whores, circus animals, and triangular and quadrilateral relationships that are so complex that digital family trees are needed to clarify who is doing it with whom. The bling bling associated with his music style results in a ‘plot’ that revolves around adultery, weapons and beautiful babes. Kelly himself plays the unfortunate protagonist and, along with the other actors, mimes the lyrics, sung in perfectly oiled vocal chords. ![]() The title refers to the lover who has to hide in a closet when his mistress’s husband arrives on the scene out of the blue. In essence, Trapped in the Closet is an endless R & B song, on one monotonous bass beat, without chorus and with the structure of a soap series, including a cliff hanger at the end of each episode. Kelly started Trapped in the Closet, a five-part video clip with a continuous storyline that grew into a rap opera of initially 12 and then 22 chapters. Kelly had a (sex) scandal to match, even involving minors on occasion. I believe I can fly, If I could turn back the hands of time, Thoia Thoing: For every hit, soul ballad or horny bedroom smash hit, R. Robert Sylvester Kelly (born in 1967) is one of the most successful and controversial R & B stars of his generation. Kelly's largely kitchen-based 'Hip-Hopera' are a cult. Now he's at the closet - Now he's opening the closet. “He looks at the closet - I pull out my Beretta - He walks up to the closet - He comes up to the closet. ![]()
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