Despite currently spending time behind bars, R. Kelly found the time to make a remix of Chris Brown’s “Residuals” over a prison phone call.
The disgraced 58-year-old singer-songwriter and convicted sex offender participated in Tank’s challenge to have artists contribute their own verse to Chris Brown’s 2023 track, which appeared on the deluxe edition of his album 11:11. Frequent R. Kelly collaborator Rodney East shared the remix on Instagram, and stressed that it was the real deal and not artificial intelligence.
“They’re still selling my music, making all this money / Don’t even send shit to my folks for commissary,” Kelly sings on the remix, which can be heard below. “Though I’m in this place, I know I don’t deserve this / There’s questions on my mind.”
In the track, he also asks “who’s getting all my checks” as he’s behind bars. “Where is my money at? / Tell me who, who’s getting paid for my grind? / All of that’s supposed to be mine?” he sings. “Who gave you 34 years? / Who made you billions of dollars? / Who put the R in R&B? / I swear that it’s killing me in my cell, making me holler, dammit.”
The remix comes shortly after R. Kelly made an appearance on the Inmate Tea with A&P podcast, during which he claimed he’s written as many as 25 albums during his time in prison.
“Well, singing is a beautiful disease that’s incurable,” he said when asked if he’s kept working on new music behind bars. “That’s not gonna happen, stopping singing. I don’t care where I’m at. I’m always singing, I’m always writing. I’ve written, like, 25 albums since I been in here, and right now I’m just working on getting out… I’m using patience as a tactic right now.”
In 2022, R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being found guilty of federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. Last year, his daughter Buku Abi, born Joanne Kelly, alleged that she was sexually abused by her father.
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