On Monday morning, singer-songwriter R. Kelly released a new song track titled “I Admit“, in which he addresses multiple accusations about running a sex cult, child molestation, and his financial grievances. Despite the title, the entire track acts more of a medium for R. Kelly to complain about personal straits than an admission of sexual abuse.

Kelly does acknowledge being a “gift and curse,” “fucking a bitch just because” and sleeping with “older and younger” women. He sings, “Don’t push your daughter in my face because your agenda is to get paid,” claiming that he has being set up by parents who allege he abused their daughter. He also calls this set up a “big-ass conspiracy.”

Accusations and allegations of R. Kelly’s sexual abuse have followed him throughout his career. Earlier this year, Black women launched a Times Up supported movement to #MuteRKelly for the plethora of abuses he has inflicted on Black women and girls. Kelly has referred to the movement as a “lynching”.

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Kelly continues his misogynistic logic, “How they gon’ say I don’t respect these women when all I do is represent?/ Now I admit they love me to talk dirty when I pull they hair, Some like me to spank them, some like to give brain/And what some of these girls want is too much for a radio station.”

He continues:

“Say I’m abusing these women. /What the fuck? That’s some absurd shit. / They brainwashed, really? / Kidnapped, really? / Can’t eat, really? / Real talk that shit sounds silly.”

Kelly also expands on his legal and financial troubles as well as his tarnished reputation and legacy:

“Now the truth in this message is I’m a broke-ass legend, the only reason I stay on tour is ’cause I gotta pay my rent…“I never thought it would come to this, to be the most disrespected artist / So I had to write a song about it / Because they always take my words and twist it / Believe me, it’s hard to admit all this.”

“I Admit” continually references Kelly’s musical legacies and financial strains to diminish the violence he has enacted on countless Black women. As he tarnishes the #MuteRKelly movement, Kenyette Barnes, a co-founder of the campaign, assures: “#MUTERKELLY continues until his career is over.”