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R. Kelly to release his memoirs
There is good news. (The Longhorns are playing for the national championship.) There is great news.. (I found $20 in my jeans this morning.) And there is amazing, no-way-that-can’t-be-true news. (R. Kelly is releasing his memoirs.)
After two decades of providing the world with some decent music, some shocking scandal and an earth-shattering serial drama/operetta, R. Kelly is prepared to share his story.
Publisher SmileyBooks announced today that three-time Grammy Award winner Kelly (born Robert Sylvester Kelly) will have his story out on shelves by early 2011.
“We are thrilled to be the conduit through which R. Kelly will tell his own story,” said Tavis Smiley, founder and publisher of SmileyBooks. “He has earned the right to tell his story his own way.”How, exactly, he earned it is unclear. What is also unclear is how many people will be willing to put more money in the pocket of someone who has been at the center of some tawdry scandals. Speaking of, apparently Kelly will address his six-year imbroglio surrounding child pornography charges.
“I’m writing this book as Robert, not R. Kelly,” Kelly said. “I’m tired of being misunderstood. I will show you the tears, fears, and sweat. I will open my heart and reveal the good in my life as well as all the drama. I want to tell it like it is.”
God, please let Kelly read/sing the audio book version.
The memoir is still untitled, in case you were wondering. But I think “Trapped in the Closet: The Memoir” sounds pretty good. Or, “I Believe I Can Write.” “I Wanna Read To You”?
As Terrell Owens would say, “Get your popcorn ready.”
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By jenn
December 9, 2009 6:36 PM | Link to this
What about, “I Don’t See Nothing Wrong … With a Little Book and Memoir”?