R. Kelly Writes 32 More Chapters of 'Trapped in the Closet'

R. Kelly attends the premiere of Chapters 13-22 of 'Trapped In The Closet' at the IFC Center in New York City.

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R. Kelly says that he has written 32 more chapters of Trapped in the Closet, the singer's video "hip-hopera." Now he's looking for financial backing.

"It costs a lot of money to do," the R&B singer told TMZ. "We're actually looking for investors."

Kelly got plenty of attention when he released the first 22 chapters of the saga between 2005 and 2007, which he wrote and produced; they featured infidelity, gunshots and a fighting midget, among other plot twists. The "I Believe I Can Fly" singer is already looking at a busy new year: he is scheduled to headline a musical cruise called the "Love Letter Cruise" in October 2012, for which prices run from $999 to $2999. He is also currently recovering from throat surgery while working on his autobiography, Soula Coaster: The Diary of Me, which does not have a publish date set.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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