On December 21, 2011, Kelly told TMZ that he had written thirty-two more chapters, and was seeking investors in order to continue the saga. In December 2007, the first 22 chapters were released in a DVD entitled The Big Package, which included a "commentary remix" with a preview of chapter 23. Nearly two years later, in August 2007, Kelly and Jive released ten more chapters on another Trapped in the Closet DVD. The material previewed by Kelly at the MTV Video Music Awards revealed an early version of some parts of the twelfth chapter in the series. In November 2005, Jive Records released a DVD titled Trapped in the Closet, which included seven new chapters in addition to the first five from TP.3 Reloaded, bringing the total number of chapters to twelve. Kelly lip synched a "new chapter" at an appearance at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. Kelly (pictured in 2007), director, producer, writer and actor of Trapped in the Closetįollowing the success and popularity of the Trapped in the Closet song series, R. He'll answer questions and disputes in the comments below. Justin Charity is a staff writer at Complex and was last wrong when he ranked all of Jay Z's album intros. Like Nas on "Rewind," we'll be starting from the story's end, for the most part, and working our way backward to an ominous beginning, in which our protagonist, Sylvester, wakes to smells of sex, gunpowder, and dread.
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I love this entire series enough, however, to rank all the episodes, from first to 33rd. By the 10th episode, we've also met James the Police Officer, his wife, Bridget, her lover, Big Man the Midget, Rosie the Nosy Neighbor, the Reverend Mosley James Evans, and Pimp Lucius.įans of the series have all got their own preferences for Trapped's absurdity levels, with most folks agreeing that the series fell off beyond episode 12, at episode 22 at the latest. In the course of the narrative, our sole protagonist is Sylvester who negotiates various treachery with his wife, Gwendolyn, his one-night-stand, Cathy, pastor Rufus, and his secret lover, Chuck. Chapters 23 through 33 are a chitlin' circuit sort of blaxploitation. Chapters 8 through 22 are soap opera surrealism a la Passions. Chapters 1 through 7 are rock opera realism. In the series' seven-year run, from 2005 through 2012, Trapped in the Closet weaved three distinct narrative arcs, with shifts in tone throughout the series. Kelly's TP.3 Reloaded, for which Chapter 1 was the lead single.
Trapped in the Closet launched in 2005 the first five episodes are included on R. The series chronicles the sprawling infidelity of a dozen spouses, lovers, brothers, friends, and neighbors who weave a rather tangled web. All the groundbreaking narrative techniques that critics attribute to David Simon's The Wire, in fact, predate to Trapped in the Closet, right down to Michael Kenneth Williams' recurring role as a police officer who's introduced in Episode 6 of R. Kelly's "hip hopera," his magnum opus, 12-Play withstanding. At 17 years old, I was hooked on the interminable drama of R. This was before YouTube, mind you, with the episode s debuting on BET and ripping, eventually, to Limewire. I used to play the latest episodes of Trapped in the Closet on a laptop, on a school bus, with three or four friends leering over my shoulder and shoving their knuckleheads to my speakers.
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