It has been a good year for Robert Sylvester Kelly.After last year's quietly awesome Write Me Back—and, yeah, that book he wrote—dude took the lead next to Kanye West on the opening track of Cruel Summer, headlined Coachella, headlined Bonnaroo, played 38 songs at Pitchfork Festival, and has found himself, once again, in the center of a national discussion. Now, on this Monday in late-July, he's brought in the one factor you truly need to put a mark on a comeback in the year 2013—release a track featuring 2 Chainz."My Story"—which releases on iTunes tomorrow and is apparently the first single off his upcoming record Black Panties—opens with a classic Kellz line, one that somehow manages to be incredibly poigant, incredibly silly, and incredibly catchy: "I went from being broke to sleeping in Versace shirts."The rest of the song is basically R. Kelly talking about how he is the best and how that's his story and how he's sticking to that fact.
Eric Sundermann is listening to "My Story" on repeat for the rest of the day. He's on Twitter — @ericsundy