R. Kelly - "Trapped In The Closet"

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Part 5 is going to end with a dance party. Just you wait.

lol. surely they all end up steppin' to the Lord or somethin' (till 6 in the mo'ning).
thinkin about it, in part 1 he says it's seven in the morning. as he always seems to party til 6, how could he drive to the lady's place, have some sex in the kitchen and wake up at 7 ??

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i like that he's still ostensibly in the closet the whole time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

that word in the second to last line would be "cellular", jaymc

and i have this to gmail to anyone upon request

― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

ah, you're right, lemin, thanks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

from transcribing that whole thing, i noticed that r. kelly switches tenses quite a bit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

if i could sing like this man i'd never remember to eat or sleep

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Lemin, I'd love to hear it. Thanks!

― Roz (Roz), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

i heard one of these on the radio and it was the dumbest thing I'd ever heard. am I missing some kind of context?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link

oh I see I must have heard part two or something because I was like, "uh, you're in a closet. so the fuck what?"

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.bfi.org.uk/showing/tours/horror/images/halloween.jpg

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay, I really REALLY need this now! HELP! OBI WAN!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

all a y'all ass-crazy

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

SINGLES OF THE YEAR

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

kathy says "love my ass!"
So is the man at Kells house HIS man?
Part four! The reckoning!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

'Cause think about it, maybe he doesn't pick up his cellular at all... maybe he DOES pick up his sailor?!?!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

i think that's what jaymc WANTED to hear. he wanted gay sailor.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Part 5: "It was all a wild dream!"

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Important question: Why is everybody trying to keep Kells in this goddamn picture?
Here's a guy with a gun in your closet trying to leave and everybody's doing their damnedest to keep him hangin' around. For god's sake, Chuck just wandered in and HE'S trying to talk to R.

"Oh hey, secret gay lover... what? You need me to come over to your house? Right now? But isn't your wife there? Um. Okay. Hello? Oh, hi everybody. Hello guy with a gun. Allow me to explain..."

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

brother, spare me the detail

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

i think they are just in awe that r. kelly is in the closet and they just want to hang out with him for a little more...

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I like to pretend that it's Rufus Wainwright, Chuck D and Cathy Dennis.

Also, I really hope this leads to a series of other serial songs in which we find Kells stuck in new and increasingly claustrophobic sticky situations.

Stay tuned for the June 2008 release of R. Kelly's "Caught in the Crapper", the August 2010 "The Breadbox Boondoggle" and the smash summer hit of 2015: "Get Me Out of This Ziploc, Bitch"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Forksclovetofu OTM. (The important question, not the Ziploc thing.)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link

cutty otm.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link

here's a more permanent download link than the one that was already posted: http://rapidshare.de/files/1955867/r._kelly-trapped_in_the_closet-chapter3-_dirty_.mp3.html

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i have a weird feeling that

1. someone - probably R. - is going to end up dead at the end of this
2. this is all going to turn into a party-ruining object lesson about infidelity

i hope i am wrong.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I like how he makes up for the understandable storyline stasis of "part 3 of 5" with some extreeeeme vocal flights.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

and while he made his voice a little airier as "Chuck" I was wondering if he'd go into a full-on lisp or something.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

chuck seems really nice

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

hey! this is gonna be on DVD, right? GUESS THE CAST!

Cathy!
http://espn.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/vivica_fox.jpg

Rufus!
http://www.tvtome.com/images/people/6/4/1-20558.jpg

Chuck!
http://uk.geocities.com/a1kc_radio/images_comedy/a1kc_DamonWayans.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I was actually thinking about how well he transitioned into Chuck's voice -- we understand he's changing character without him having to say "and then Chuck said" as he does with most of the other lines.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

alternate possibility: Garielle Union as Cathy, Alfonso Ribieri as Rufus, Jaleel White as Chuck.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

It will "all be a dream" at the end. I'm almost betting on it. (then again, I'm heading to Vegas this weekend, so betting has been on my mind lately.)

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

In a similar way, when he does Kathy on "okay, you busted me, you caught me cheating, but this is a little extreme," he sings in an upper register, almost falsetto, that suggests a female voice but only because the notes are themselves high, i.e., not gratuitously at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, I just can't decide of such taste is wasted on a project like this or not. Either way it rules, obv.

Cathy = Elisabeth Berkeley
Rufus = Mario Lopez
Chuck = Dustin Diamond
R. Kelly's Wife = Lark Voorheis
Man who answers the phone = Mark-Paul Gosselar

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Why am I the only one who's assuming Kathy's name starts with a K!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

brother, spare me the detail

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

When it comes to Broadway, the part of Chuck will be sung by Luther Vandross.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

The cast should be: Cathy = Vivica Fox/Sanaa Lathan, Rufus = Terrance Howard, Chuck = Taye Diggs, Kell's Wife = Gabrielle Union, The Man at the Other End of The Line: Morris Chestnut, just so it can be every black romcom of the past few years in video form.

I think this thread got me way interested in that song than I would've been otherwise because it's awfully monotone-like until they get to the big crescendo at the end where the music is screaming "HELLO, pay attention!"

― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

What the fuck, nothing happens in Part 3 except you learn their names!

― High Ranking Militants, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

well we also discover there's a man at R.'s house with his wife, but its an awkward and abrupt revelation.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Terrance Howard would be perfect!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Who answers the phone of the man they are cuckolding?

― High Ranking Militants, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.thezreview.co.uk/images/Terrence%20Howard%20jpeg.JPG

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

The Chicago radio stations have not gone into All-R rotation yet...

― High Ranking Militants, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

patience

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Other important question: why is Kels getting so worked up about this, i.e. to the point of shooting in the air? I don't get the sense that he's being threatened or anything.

ANyway, more trivially, once this is all finished, I wonder how well these 5 tracks are gonna sit back-to-back on an album...

― The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (Fabfunk), Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, it seemed scary in Chapter 1 and 2, but now it just seems like Kathy and Rufus have bigger fish to fry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

It's supposed to be like the scene in Reservoir Dogs where everyone's pointing a gun at someone else, except R's the only one packing.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

well, more like that scene in A Fish Called Wanda.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

prt 4 @ lemon-red.blogspot.com

R NEEDS TO TAKE A STORYTELLING WORKSHOP

― Jimmy_tango, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

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