R. Kelly’s ‘Shut Up’ Is About Throat Surgery, Dedicated To Haters

If you weren’t one of the people who doubted that R. Kelly would return to the R&B game after undergoing throat surgery earlier this year, then his new song “Shut Up,” isn’t directed at you. Following yesterday’s news that his memoir Soula Coaster would arrive next Spring, Kellz took to Twitter on Thursday (November 9) to announce his official return to the game. “It's been a long time coming but I finally feel a lot better about my throat since the surgery and this is the first song I wrote,” he said, adding a link to his latest track “Shut Up.” We’ll let the song’s intro line prepare you for what’s to come: “This song goes out to all the people out there that be runing they mouth and they don’t know what the hell they saying—shut up.” Read more...