R. Kelly Album ‘I Admit It’ Removed From Apple Music and Spotify - Hollywood Reporter

R. Kelly’s lawyer said an medium uploaded to Spotify and Apple Music connected Friday was not authorized by the singer.

The 13-track acceptable called I Admit It was released online Friday — appearing connected streaming platforms arsenic a caller album. But hours aft its release, it was nary longer available.

“It’s an unauthorized merchandise of music. It’s stolen music,” lawyer Jennifer Bonjean told The Hollywood Reporter.

Bonjean says that “a constabulary study was filed immoderate clip agone due to the fact that his masters were stolen, but there’s not overmuch of an appetite to analyse these things. People person had entree to his intelligence spot rights that they are attempting to nett disconnected of, but unluckily that does not see Mr. Kelly.”

“When helium was arrested, helium had workplace instrumentality that was taken,” she added. “His masters are missing. The euphony is determination retired there, but who has it and who has profited disconnected it — we don’t cognize entirely.”

I Admit included the 19-minute track, “I Admit It,” which Kelly released successful 2018 connected SoundCloud. This time, the opus was breached up into 3 parts to adjacent the album, arsenic helium sings astir the intersexual maltreatment claims against him. 

The medium featured opus titles similar “Last Man Standing,” “Where’s Love When You Need It,” “Freaky Sensation” and “Air.” The medium besides included the upbeat, dance-flavored songs “I Got It” and “Good Old Days.” On “Planet” helium sings astir the existent authorities of the world: “Police warring people, radical warring police/Every clip I look up children dying connected the TV.”

The integer credits showed that Kelly wrote each of the songs alone, with D. Johnson receiving shaper credit. 

Bonjean said she spoke to Kelly connected Friday astir the release. She said this has happened successful the past — wherever his unauthorized euphony is uploaded online, but that’s usually connected YouTube and not Spotify and Apple Music.

“He benignant of is like, ‘Yeah, this has been going on. I’m not surprised,'” Bonjean said of Kelly’s effect to the unofficial release. “But, of course, it’s upsetting. It’s precise upsetting to spot your assemblage of enactment retired determination successful that way.”

Kelly was sentenced to 30 years successful situation earlier this twelvemonth pursuing a proceedings successful New York wherever the assemblage recovered him blameworthy of enactment trafficking and racketeering. A 2nd proceedings successful Chicago ended with his condemnation connected charges of producing kid pornography and enticing girls for sex.

Legacy Recordings – the Sony statement that handles the archives of Sony-owned labels, including Columbia, Epic and RCA Records – was the statement listed connected the integer platforms for the album. But a typical for Legacy said “it did not contented this music.”

Sony and RCA famously dropped the embattled vocalist successful 2019 2 weeks aft the viral and Emmy-nominated documentary series Surviving R. Kelly drew caller attraction to the enactment maltreatment allegations against the singer.

Dec. 9, 1:50 p.m. Updated with comments from lawyer Jennifer Bonjean

Dec. 9, 12:14 p.m. Updated with quality that the medium was removed from Spotify and Apple Music.