Despite R. Kelly presently serving a 30-year jail sentence, a 13-track set by the R&B singer was launched Friday and later faraway from Spotify, Apple Music, and different streaming providers.
Representatives for Sony Music, which owns the vast majority of Kelly’s catalog, stated the album is a bootleg, or an unofficial launch, Variety reported.
Jennifer Bonjean, an legal professional for Kelly, additionally confirmed to the outlet that the discharge was not approved, saying the singer “is having intellectual property stolen from him.”
Representatives for Sony Music, Apple Music, Spotify, and Kelly didn’t instantly reply to BuzzFeed News’ requests for remark.
R. Kelly was discovered responsible final yr of a number of costs in New York associated to sexual misconduct and racketeering in New York. The Grammy-winning singer was later convicted of manufacturing little one sexual abuse supplies and different intercourse crimes in a second Chicago trial.
The album featured songs titled “Last Man Standing,” “Where’s Love When You Need It,” “I Got It,” “Freaky Sensation,” and “Good Old Days.” It shares the identical title, I Admit It, as a 19-minute monitor the singer launched in 2019. But regardless of the implication, he denied all of the sexual misconduct allegations in opposition to him in that track.
Attention on the allegations in opposition to Kelly escalated after Lifetime launched its Emmy-nominated docuseries Surviving R. Kelly on Jan. 3, 2019. Sony and RCA Records dropped the artist quickly after.