kelly has described the entire series as a "hip hopera", saying, "it's now too long to be called a song." when asked about the writing of the song, kelly stated: "i don't know how to explain how i wrote it. it just keeps rhyming and rhyming." he has also stated that "trapped in the closet" seems to have taken on "a life, mind and body of its own", and has called the series an "alien".