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Move Over 'Going Rogue,' R. Kelly Is Writing a Memoir

4:47 p.m. · December 9, 2009 · by Matthew Richardson

Remember a couple of months ago when R. Kelly admitted that he can't read very well? Well, ya boy Kellz is "The World's Greatest" after all, and he doesn't let a little thing like barely being able to string a written sentence together stop him from writing a book.

Frequent celebrity co-author David Ritz has helped Smokey Robinson, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin put their lives in ink, and now R. Kelly joins that list. Tavis Smiley's Smileybooks will pubish the as-yet untitled memoir.

According to Pitchfork, Kellz is quoted as saying "I'm writing this book as Robert, not R. Kelly," but what does that really mean? Is there any chance at all that his illegal marriage to Aaliyah when she was 14 will be mentioned at all?