R. Kelly - "Trapped In The Closet"

Soon playing at the Cinematheque Francaise:

http://tinyurl.com/2y2996

I mean, what if Scott Stapp DID make something like TITC, and a lot of black people dug it because of the "juxtapositions of white stereotypes with outrageous non-sequiturs"?

rip adam beales

the cinemathèque thing is insane

I just want the audio of chapters 6 through as many more as I can get (I have TP.3). Is the audio for all the chapters packaged together in some fashion, preferably CD?

(this thread is bonkers/funny:
R. Kelly was like "if Dan's gonna call this a minstrel show, then I'm gonna give him a motherfuckin minstrel show."

-- da croupier, Thursday, 4 October 2007 22:36 (5 months ago) Link)

Sure, if a white guy made TITC shot for shot, line for line, it'd be racist. Blackface. Appalling. I didn't think you were suggesting anything so obvious.

But if a white person of similar infamy made a similarly plotted, similarly brilliant/retarded film, it would be received in precisely the same way. It would reflect white culture instead of black culture of course, but the basic dynamic would be the same. People of all sorts would adore it in a condescendingly ironic fashion.

I mean, what if Scott Stapp DID make something like TITC, and a lot of black people dug it because of the "juxtapositions of white stereotypes with outrageous non-sequiturs"?

So what? Comedy = stereotypes + stereotypes punctured. Big deal. White guilt about what's okay or not okay to laugh at is retarded. Every culture in the world thinks other cultures are funny to the extent they don't think they're evil.

Therefore, thinking other cultures are funny is a GOOD THING. Or at least it can be...

-- Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:03 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Stapped in the Closet

Pye Poudre morelike Pye PUD-re

my choice for worst single of the 00s

wasn't a single?

Then he continues to rough up the midget as if the midget was under attack.

Twenty new episodes coming the day after Thanksgiving:

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/10/15/r-kelly-on-his-single-ladies-tour-bedroom-ballads-and-the-future-of-trapped/

Are you working on another installment of Trapped In The Closet?

We just shot 20 chapters. They’ll be coming out the day after Thanksgiving. Trapped in the Closet is forever. I’ve got like a hundred chapters to come.

Forever?

It’s forever.

a hundred more chapters, thanks R!

I mean, what if Scott Stapp DID make something like TITC, and a lot of black people dug it because of the "juxtapositions of white stereotypes with outrageous non-sequiturs"?

Would be an easy #1 on the Contemporary Christian charts.

I really really really wish this dude would just go away

I like Love Letter and consider him a great singer and U Saved Me is tremendous but that was a good minute back and yeah it's kind of sad this whole business

R. Kelly is a gigantic walking "stay in school, kids" ad

what do you mean DJP?

I mean he's a painfully ignorant buffoon who continually embarrasses himself and, if he'd maybe not dropped out of school in junior high and had learned how to read, there's a possibility he wouldn't be spending his talent on outright bullshit like this.

i'm half-surprised more are coming considering the relative lack of acclaim/attention for the second batch (shake your head at the whole deal if you want, but there was infinitely more in the narrative/format to be fascinated by in the first bunch), but then they're probably pretty cheap to make.

millions of people enjoy his music and he's made a zillions dollars; I'd say he did pretty well for a dropout

ya

really not looking forward to the revival of "trapped in the closet" culture tho

has there been any word on how it will be released? IFC? Vevo? DVD?

always weird when people break out the "he's successful, so it must be awesome to be him whatever else might be true about him personally" deal

well, that's as presumptive as saying that his life would be better had he stayed in school

The second batch seemed forced and hackneyed, where the first seemed inventive and engagingly odd. I have little hope for any continuation.

"his life" vs "his contributions to art"

but then again, Tyler Perry stayed in school and look at him

always weird when people break out the "he's successful, so it must be awesome to be him whatever else might be true about him personally" deal

as a "stay in school" cautionary tale? are high school dropouts really worried that they may one day turn into R. Kelly? "this guy is a painfully ignorant buffoon" sounds like something a 30 year old college grad who doesn't like R. Kelly would say

well that more or less describes DJP tbf

yeah 30, let's keep that

i've enjoyed plenty of r. kelly's music - he's got a commanding voice, good hooks, and a shameless taste for the absurd. but i don't think it's hard to see how someone could find him too embarrassing and tragic to do likewise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZxsMg3ROhY
Alastaire Kelly

bridget reminds me of janice soprano

the first five chapters of this are legit classic. the rest a bit less so

and by "a bit" i mean "a lot," yet i still kinda wanna watch these new ones even if i could barely finish the later ones

i think the whole thing was starting to come off the rails even by chapter 4 or 5, but it was a fun few weeks there

i transcribed the lorem ipsum from his little book.

"Textual texting for verbose placement of words. Blah blaeh blah. Crazy ass shit. In a series of uncommon events that involved several good men and women from the greater chicagoland area, the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Stream of consciousness. Typing. Man, I could really use a good sandwich right now. Or some spaghetti. That shit that Joey was eating in chapter 21 looked pretty damn good."

trapped in the closet remains a good time

still got it

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult

I read that earlier... this is absolutely fucking insane.

Does the same link need to be pasted on every R.Kelly thread tho

I assume it is for the sake of removing any possible shred of doubt people might have about how fucked up R. Kelly is

I mean, if this is how some R. Kelly fans think:

“In the back of our minds, we were thinking (my daughter) could be around him if I was with her,” J. said. “It didn’t really hit home. Even with the Aaliyah situation, now that I think about it, ‘Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number’ ... but you don’t think about that. You grew up with the song, and you like the song.”

then maybe they need to be spoonfed this info

I have actual work I need to get done and I think the point (which I have been making on this board in some fashion over the past 17 years) has been made.

I think it's good that no R. Kelly thread activity is going to be able to go on credibly unaware of this.