Shut Up - R. Kelly

[00:02.26]this song goes out
[00:05.56]to all the people out there, that be running their mouth
[00:09.87]and they don't know what the hell they saying
[00:14.17]shut up!
[00:16.48]now that i've got my voice back,
[00:18.35]let me start off by saying that
[00:20.48]i appreciate the fans around the world that have my back
[00:24.16]and i just wanna thank god upstairs for keeping his hands on me
[00:28.09]and keeping all the doctors focused through my surgery.
[00:31.83]now, there's a couple of things, i gotta get off my chest
[00:35.64]some serious issues that i must address
[00:38.32]so, well let's just get it right through it
[00:41.19]people say that i was gone
[00:43.32]say there was no way this time he's gonna overcome
[00:46.88]and even before, the doctors was done, and i could awake
[00:50.66]soon my career away!
[00:54.84]after twenty two years of a bless career
[00:57.59]they had me lying in my hospital bed crying mad tears, uhu
[01:02.52]but just as i had many people hatin' me,
[01:04.70]had so many people loving me
[01:06.39]and not forget the hood around the world covering me
[01:09.51]to everybody that be calling me
[01:11.26]well, telling me what they be saying about me
[01:13.25]well, bringing me all this negative ****
[01:15.00]yal the ones i ain't ****** with
[01:17.37]it's time for me to evaluate, oh, oh
[01:19.30]people that i let up in my space
[01:20.87]can i get a witness for all of this,
[01:22.86]when people all up in your business
[01:25.05]tell 'em, shut up, tell 'em shut up
[01:29.00]tell 'em shut up,
[01:31.25]i'm talking to you!
[01:32.62]tell 'em shut up, tell 'em shut up
[01:36.25]tell 'em all shut up!
[01:38.26]tell 'em
[01:39.20]i'm talking to you!
[01:40.26]he's washed up, he's lost it!
[01:41.76]he ain't got no more
[01:43.88]well i'm here to tell you today boy,
[01:45.63]you haters are so slow!
[01:47.50]and it sadness me to know
[01:49.69]some of yal want me to go away
[01:51.50]when it's time for me to go
[01:53.12]my god is gonna orchestrate it all
[01:56.49]until then i'm gonna accept the stones
[01:58.74]praying, just try to get along
[02:00.23]but sometimes is so hard for me to be strong
[02:04.10]see, i got kids and i'm trying to love 'em,
[02:06.29]so many things i'm trying juggle
[02:08.10]but i never thought this music would become my struggle, oh!
[02:12.59]and who said i lost my house, my own people put me down
[02:16.08]and my friends no longer around, no!
[02:19.76]but you see deep underneath the surface
[02:21.82]i feel something is working in my behalf
[02:25.50]a victory is near!
[02:27.06]see, my future ain't my past
[02:28.69]it's not the end of the hour glass,
[02:30.81]who said it would not last
[02:32.56]i'm sick o' their ass
[02:34.18]tell, shut up, tell 'em shut up
[02:37.93]tell 'em shut up, tell 'em
[02:39.99]i'm talking to you!
[02:41.83]tell 'em shut up, shut up
[02:46.33]shut up!
[02:48.20]i'm talking to you!
[02:50.26]now seriously, after all these hits and melodies,
[02:53.13]and memories you compare me to someone else! OMG!
[02:57.87]no offence to the other artists,
[02:59.80]but come one dawg, let's be honest,
[03:01.80]how many babies have been made of me? OMG!
[03:05.55]seriously?
[03:06.29]you gonna act like that?
[03:07.54]sitting there like it ain't no truth to that?
[03:09.67]looking at me like it ain't talking stats OMG!
[03:13.22]every boy, every girl, every child around the world
[03:17.09]from the 90s up until the day they all free
[03:20.83]shut up, shut up, shut up
[03:27.14]i'm talking to you!
[03:27.89]shut up, shut up, shut up
[03:31.82]all my life, oh!
[03:34.81]i'm talking to you!...
[03:36.21]just shut up, shut up, shut up!
[03:44.01]shut up, shut up, shut up!
[03:49.50]i'm talking to you!.
[03:51.64]shut up, shut up, shut up!