After being sentenced to 30 years in prison this summer for racketeering and sex trafficking charges, a new R. Kelly album titled I Admit It — featuring the 2018 19-minute titular track "I Admit It" broken into three parts — has been released.
Sony Music — which owns the rights to much of the singer's catalogue, and dropped him in 2019 — claims the 13-track album is an unofficial release, while Kelly's lawyer Jennifer Bonjean likewise claims that the R&B singer "is having intellectual property stolen from him" and that his team is not responsible for putting the album out, as per Variety.
Multiple outlets report that the record was uploaded to both Apple Music and Spotify today, though it appears to have been removed from both platforms as of press time. It remains unclear how the album ended up making it onto streaming, however briefly.
Sony Music — which owns the rights to much of the singer's catalogue, and dropped him in 2019 — claims the 13-track album is an unofficial release, while Kelly's lawyer Jennifer Bonjean likewise claims that the R&B singer "is having intellectual property stolen from him" and that his team is not responsible for putting the album out, as per Variety.
Multiple outlets report that the record was uploaded to both Apple Music and Spotify today, though it appears to have been removed from both platforms as of press time. It remains unclear how the album ended up making it onto streaming, however briefly.
