How R Kelly’s troubling lyrics about underage girls gave clues about his decades of secret sex abuse

AFTER R Kelly was found guilty at the end of an emotional trial spanning six weeks, disturbing clues to his abuse hidden in his lyrics have come to light.

Kelly born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted last September of nine criminal counts, including violations of the Mann Act and racketeering.

Now as the disgraced singer has received 30 years in prison, the chilling testimonies of Kelly's victims call back into question his characteristically raunchy and shocking songs.

AGE GAP

The title for the singer's most disturbing song must go to the self-explanatory "Age Ain't Nothing But a Number" by Aaliyah, but produced by Kelly.

The hit track, released in 1994, launched 14-year-old Aaliyah into childhood stardom.

Kelly, then 27, also acted as a close mentor to the young singer, and it's easy to hear his stylistic influence on the track.

But the lyrics of the song, coupled with the famously bizarre closeness of the two artists, are evidence of Kelly's dark side.

In the tune, Aaliyah pleads with an older lover to "let her in," singing, "Age ain't nothing but a number/Throwing down ain't nothing but a thing/This something I have for you it'll never change"

BAD VIBE

Perhaps even more disturbing is Kelly's own track, "She's Got That Vibe," written about Aaliyah two years before when the young starlet was just 12 years old.

In it, he sings the names of women who have "got it," including "little cute Aaliyah."

Another lyric reads, "Girl you turn me on/And I wonder/If I could take you home/I must confess/The tight mini-skirt you wear/I just can't help it baby/I can't help but stare"

Kelly and Aaliyah were inseparable in the early days surrounding the album's production, appearing at press events and concerts together, and sometimes even dressing similarly.

It wasn't until the release of the documentary Surviving R Kelly, which shocked viewers with victims' accounts of Kelly's abuse, that it was revealed Kelly had bribed a welfare officer to falsify Aaliyah's identification to state she was 18 so that the pair could marry.

The marriage was annulled the next year, and Aaliyah tragically passed away in a plane crash in 2001 at just 22 years old.