R. Kelly broke his silence by sharing one of his successes while in prison on his birthday.
The R&B artist is in jail in Chicago, awaiting trial on charges of sexual crimes involving underage women and girls. Kelly’s time behind bars was not enough to stop him from mentioning his 2011 song “Shut Up”, which seems to be a reference to his current legal problems.
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A clip of the song was posted to her official Instagram account on her 54th birthday, on January 8. A photo of Kelly holding several championship belts is the background image of the restored track.
“And even before the doctors finished and I could wake up / A tsunami of rumors came to sweep my career / After 22 years of a blessed career / He had me lying in my hospital bed crying crazy tears,” says Kelly’s song . “But just as I had a lot of people hating me, I had so many people loving me / And let’s not forget the hood around the world covering me.”
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“And to everyone who’s calling me, telling me what they’ve been saying about me / Bringing me all these negative things, and you’re the ones I’m not fucking with,” the clip continued before it was cut.
The caption that accompanies Kelly’s last birthday post says, “Thank you, God, for my life!”
R. Kelly did not complain about sexual crimes charges. To celebrate his 54th birthday, the artist shared a clip of his song “Shut Up”. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool)
Comments have been disabled for the Instagram post, but it was seen almost 300,000 times as of Sunday morning.
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This is in stark contrast to the commemorative post that his account shared last year for his 53rd birthday, which showed Kelly on stage singing congratulations to himself two years earlier. The post has over 1 million views and 39,300 comments.
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However, some fans expressed positive birthday wishes to Kelly over the weekend.
The singer’s Instagram account still has 1.3 million followers while his trial is pending.
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Born Robert Sylvester Kelly, the winner of three Grammy awards pleaded not guilty to several federal and state charges, including child sexual exploitation, child pornography production, kidnapping, forced labor, extortion and obstruction of justice.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.