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Kelly, who appears unnerved by the boycott of his music, uses “I Admit” to tell his critics and so called “enemies” that they can’t achieve their aim of muting him and that only God has the power to mute him.įYI: Over Kelly’s very long career, he has faced several disturbing allegations of women claiming that he abused them repeatedly. In response to this online movement, Apple Music as well as the famous streaming services Spotify were forced to take down all Kelly’s songs from their playlists. Debuting in 1991 with the group Public Announcement, Kelly went solo in 1993, starting off a successful career with the release of the album 12. Kelly, is a Grammy award winning American R&B singer-songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer. The sole purpose of #MuteRKelly is to boycott or rather “mute” Kelly’s music all over the world in response to the numerous very disturbing allegations against him. Robert Sylvester Kelly (born Januin Chicago, Illinois), better known by his stage name R.

This line, which apparently is Kelly’s response to the popular #MuteRKelly – a social media movement against Kelly. The line “only God can mute me” is undoubtedly one of the most profound lines from the track. He reveals he now only goes on tour because that’s the only way he can afford to pay his rent. Owing to this, he ended up signing away the publishing rights to his songs. According to him, the reason he’s broke is because his inability to read prevented him from reading and understanding the contracts he signed. Kelly calls himself “a broke a** legend”. Wants to age gracefully: Kelly talks about wanting to be left alone by his critics to do his music and just “age gracefully”.In April 2018, he was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault. Cosby was accused of abuse by over 60 women. It is apparent the “Bill” Kelly is referring to is the iconic American comedian and actor Bill Cosby. Compares his predicament to that of Bill: Kelly sings about how his enemies are trying to lock him up “like Bill”.According to Kelly, he hasn’t had the opportunity to see his “kids in years”. He tells the world how he has been tempted to get himself in drugs. January 8, 1967), known professionally as R. Settling a number of people: He sings of how his lawyer advised him on multiple occasions to settle people in order to protect his career even though their claims were “bulls***” claims.He sings about turning his back on the church. Here, it is not clear if he means he feels like retiring from the music industry or from life. He reveals to his fans and the world at large that he feels “like retiring”. He sings about helping an awful lot of people, most of whom “turned fake”. Helped many people who turned around to stab him in the back.We don’t which Grammy Awards ceremony he is referring to. In relation to his inability to read, he gave an example of being unable to “read the teleprompter” when he was asked to do a presentation at the Grammys. However, he blames his inability to read on the illness dyslexia. He also admits to lacking the ability to read. Kelly confesses he turned his back on his basic education by dropping out of school at a very young age. Dropped out of school and not being able to read.In the lyrics, Kelly sings about being “so scared” to talk about it that he just ended up putting the blame on himself. According to him, the abuse began from when he was very young and continued until he was 14. Kelly claims he was abused multiple times by a family member. Kelly talks about in the song “I Admit”īesides the infidelity issues mentioned above, the following are some other relevant things Kelly talks about in the song: