Embattled R&B singer R. Kelly premiered the sequel to his “Trapped in the Closet” video serial with a red-carpet extravaganza in New York on Wednesday night.
“Don’t ask me to explain it,” Kelly told the audience before the videos aired. “I don’t know how to explain how I wrote it.”
It might be hard for anyone to explain Kelly’s ghetto soap opera, which includes a gay pastor, cheating spouses, a convict named ‘Twon and a midget. In the new episodes – chapters 13 through 22 he adds an old reverend, ex-con lesbians and a stuttering pimp.
The singer-songwriter premiered “Trapped in the Closet,” a five-part song series in 2005. It kicked off with a man hiding in his lover’s closet as her husband comes in and each “episode” ended with a cliffhanger.
Soon afterward, Kelly released a DVD video of the series, adding seven more chapters. It has become a cult classic.
Kelly’s upcoming September trial on child pornography charges haven’t dampened anticipation for the next installment of “Trapped”: Parts of the new series have been premiering on Independent Film Channel’s Web site since Monday; the DVD with the complete series hit stores on Tuesday. The IFC will show them in their entirety in September.