R. Kelly - Trapped in the Closet Chapter 1 (Video clip)

Caught in the Closet is a rap musical show by American R&B artist R. Kelly, which presently comprises of 33 "chapters" discharged from 2005 to 2012. Composed and created by R. Kelly, the

arrangement recounts an account of a one-night stand which sets off a chain of occasions, step by step uncovering a more prominent web of untruths, sex, and misdirection. The music takes after an unmistakable E significant example, and most parts of the story include the same melodic topic.

The initial five sections of Trapped in the Closet initially showed up as the last tracks on Kelly's collection TP.3 Reloaded. R. Kelly composed and delivered every one of the five sections, and they were recorded by Andy Gallas. The primary section was discharged as the lead single from the collection in 2005 byJive Records. Kelly and Jive Records advanced the melodies by discharging each of the initial five parts to radio stations each one in turn.

Taking after the achievement and prominence of the Trapped in the Closet melody arrangement, R. Kelly lip synced "commentary remix" at an appearance at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. In November 2005, Jive Records discharged a DVD titled Trapped in the Closet, which included seven new sections notwithstanding the initial five from TP.3 Reloaded, conveying the aggregate number of parts to twelve. The material reviewed by Kelly at the MTV Video Music Awards uncovered an early form of a few sections of the twelfth part in the arrangement.

Almost two years after the fact, in August 2007, Kelly and Jive discharged ten more sections on another Trapped in the Closet DVD. These ten sections were additionally appeared on the Independent Film Channel (IFC) and were likewise spilled on IFC's Web website. The arrival of the DVD conveyed the arrangement to an aggregate of 22 parts.

Kelly has expressed that more parts would be composed and discharged. In December 2007, the initial 22 sections were discharged in a DVD entitled The Big Package, which likewise incorporates a "critique remix" highlighting a sneak peak of part 23. On December 21, 2011, Kelly told TMZ that he had composed thirty-two more parts, and was looking for financial specialists with a specific end goal to proceed with the saga. IFC reported in October 2012 that it would demonstrate new sections of Trapped in the Closet on November 23, 2012.

Kelly has depicted the whole arrangement as a "hip hopera", saying, "It's currently too long to be known as a song."[not in reference given] When gotten some information about the written work of the melody, Kelly expressed: "I don't know how to clarify how I composed it. It just continues rhyming and rhyming." He has also stated that Trapped in the Closet seems to have taken on "a life, mind and body of its own", and has called the series an "alien".