NEW YORK — R. Kelly, who is currently serving a 30-year sentence in New York for racketeering and sex trafficking, says he’s working on new music from behind bars.

Less than a month after losing his appeal of the conviction, the 58-year-old disgraced R&B singer appeared this week on the “Inmate Tea with A&P” podcast, where he serenaded the hosts with excerpted renditions of his tracks “When a Woman’s Fed Up” and “Step in the Name of Love.”

“Singing is a beautiful disease that’s [in]curable,” said the “Ignition” singer and convicted sex offender, real name Robert Kelly.

Adding he won’t “stop singing. I don’t care where I’m at. … I’m always singing,” Kelly said he’s also “always writing.”

He added: “I’ve written like 25 albums since I’ve been in here. And right now I’m just working on getting out and getting back to what it is God gave me my talent to do.”

The “Trapped in the Closet” crooner said he’s “using patience as a tactic” while in custody and is trying to stay positive.

“That’s the kind of person I’ve always been and it’s the kind of person I’m always gonna be no matter what predicament or what environment or what situation I’m in,” said Kelly. “So, it’s all good.”

In September 2021, the three-time Grammy winner fell from grace when a jury in Brooklyn Federal Court found him guilty on all nine counts and determined Kelly orchestrated sexually abuse upon young female fans for decades. In February 2022, he was sentenced to three decades behind bars.

The following September, Kelly was once again found guilty, this time at a federal trial in his hometown of Chicago, where he was convicted on three child pornography charges. He was sentenced in February 2023 to 20 years, 19 of which would be simultaneously served with that of his New York sentence.

Last month, the Manhattan-based 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected Kelly’s bid at an appeal for the New York conviction.

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