Best Of Both Worlds (Explicit Version) (2002)

Artist: Jay Z/r.kelly
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Label: Polygram Label Group
UPC: 00731458678328
Release Date: 3/19/2002
Buy.com Sku: 60542479
Item#: MXYTWL
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Best Of Both Worlds, The ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
2. Take You Home With Me A.K.A. Body ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
3. Break Up To Make Up ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
4. It Ain't Personal ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
5. Streets, The ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
6. Green Light - (featuring Beanie Sigel) ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
7. Naked ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
8. Shake Ya Body - (featuring Lil' Kim) ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
9. Somebody's Girl ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
10. Get This Money ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
11. Shorty ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
12. Honey ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly
13. Pu**y - (featuring Devin) ~ Jay-Z/R. Kelly

(P) 2002 Zomba Recording Corporation and The Island Def Jam Music Group
(C) 2002 Zomba Recording Corporation and The Island Def Jam Music Group

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel includes: Jay-Z, R. Kelly (vocals); Devin The Dude, Beanie Sigel, Lil' Kim (rap vocals); Donnie Lyle (guitar, keyboards); Precision (guitar); Rodney East, Kendall Nesbitt (keyboards); Louie "LP" Pimental (bass); Abel Garibaldi, Ian Mereness, Poke, Tone (programming); Shanay Reed (background vocals).
Producers include: Megahertz, Poke, Tone, R. Kelly, Charlemagne.
Engineers include: Abel Garibaldi, Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Poke.
What do you get when you combine one of the biggest names in hip-hop with the premier R&B singer of his generation? In the case of R. Kelly and Jay-Z, besides the obvious marketing opportunity, you get an intersection between the two genres that illuminates the strengths of both while simultaneously working on a new paradigm from the middle ground occupied by both artists. "Break up to Make up" isn't the old Stylistics R&B hit, but a new concoction full of Jay-Z's attitude and R. Kelly's vocal power; no looking back for this pair. And with Kelly being one of the original R&B mack daddies, you can be sure that tales of carnal exploits are in no short supply on the appropriately titled THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. The key here, though, is the way Jay-Z's well-documented lyrical acumen is supported by the melodic twists and turns of Kelly's singing, and how RK's sound is in turn made all the more visceral by his partner's in-your-face approach.

 
Compilation Appearances
Life After Death (Explicit Version)
Hardcore (Explicit Version)
Ill Na Na (Explicit Version)
Space Jam
No Way Out (Explicit Version)
Soul Food
Harlem World (Explicit Version)
Vol. 1-Traffic Jams (Explicit Version)
Players Club (Explicit Version)
R. (Explicit Version)
First Family 4 Life (Explicit Version)
Streets Is Watching
Flesh Of My Flesh-Blood Of My (Clean Version)
Belly (Explicit Version)
Life After Death (Clean Version)
Vol. 2-Hip Hop Hits (Explicit Version)
400 Degreez (Explicit Version)
Vol. 1-Ryde Or Die (Explicit Version)
Venni Vetti Vecci (Explicit Version)
Coming Of Age (Explicit Version)
Forever (Explicit Version)
Tunnel (Explicit Version)
Truth (Explicit Version)
Backstage Mixtape (Explicit Version)
Last Of A Dying Breed (Explicit Version)
Understanding (Explicit Version)
Miss E...So Addictive (Explicit Version)
Miss E...So Addictive (Clean Version)
Reason (Explicit Version)
Mariah Carey's Greatest Hits
Concert For New York
Come Home With Me (Explicit Version)
Fix (Explicit Version)
Paid In Full (Explicit Version)
Girl Interrupted (Explicit Version)
Greatest Hits (Bonus Tracks) (Explicit Version)
8 Mile (Clean Version)
Under Construction (Clean Version)
8 Mile (Explicit Version)
Under Construction (Explicit Version)
Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Boss (Explicit Version)
Charmbracelet
Philadelphia Freeway (Explicit Version)
Concert For New York City (SACD)
Dangerously In Love (Bonus Tracks)
Bad Boys II (Explicit Version)
Bad Boys II (Clean Version)
Love & Life
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Explicit Version)
Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below (Clean Version)
Neptunes Present...clones (Explicit Version)
Scarface-Music Inspired By (Explicit Version)
This Is Not A Test (Clean Version)
Def Jamaica (Explicit Version)
R. In R&b Collection Vol. 1
Vol. 14-Now That's What I Call Music
M.a.d.e. (Explicit Version)
Source Presents: hip Hop Hits Vol. 7
2004 Grammy Nominees
College Dropout (Explicit Version)
College Dropout (Clean)
Tough Luv (Explicit Version)
Rbg: Revolutionary But Gangsta (Explicit Version)
Baptism
534 (Explicit Version)
Trill (Explicit Version)
Island Def Jam Recording Presents 1
Trill (chopped & Screwed)
Late Registration (Explicit Version)
Late Registration (Clean Version)
Trill (cln)
St. Marxmen (clean) 1005
St. Marxmen 1005(Explicit Version)
In My Mind (Explicit Version)
In My Mind (Clean Edition)
The Breakthrough
Duets: The Final Chapter (Explicit Version)
Duets:the Final Cha(clean
Car Show Tour(w/ Bonus DVD)
Car Show Tour(w/ Bonus DVD)(Explicit Version)
Exodus
Exodus(Explicit Version)
Food & Liquor(Explicit Version)
Port Of Miami (Explicit Version)
Port Of Miami (Cln)
B'day
B'day +4 (Import) 0906
Now That's What I Call Music! 23
Hip Hop Is Dead (Explicit Version)
Hip Hop Is Dead (Cln)
From Nothin To Somethin(Explicit Version)
B'day(Bonus Tracks)(w/ Bonus DVD)
Because Of You
Instrumental Icons 2007
Definition Of X:pick Of The Litter
Definition Of X:pick Of The Litter(w/ Bonus DVD)(Explicit Version)
Definition Of X:the Pick Of The Litte
TI Vs Tip
Ti Vs Tip (Explicit Version)
It's Me Snitches
B'day
Free At Last(Explicit Version)
Y'all Know What This Is Hits(Explicit Version)
Trilla
Solution
Trilla
Guess Whoo's Back Mutha Fuck
Infinity On High (w/ Bonus CD)(Limited Edition)
Strange Hip Hop
Total Club Hits
Danseplus 208
Here I Stand
Good Girl Gone Bad:Reloaded
Muchdance 2008
Paper Trail (Explicit Version)
Paper Trail
Way I See It
Tha Carter Iii(Explicit Version)
Tha Carter Iii(Explicit Version)
Tha Carter Iii
Tha Carter Iii
Alter Ego:mixtape
Theater Of The Mind
Theater Of The Mind(Explicit Version)
Street Chronicles(Explicit Version)
The Best Of NOW That's What I Call Music - 10th Anniversary Edition
Mad Ave Movement(Explicit Version)
Road To Revolution:live At Milton Key(Explicit Version)
Road To Revolution:live At Milton Key
Good Girl Gone Bad:remixes
Notorious (Explicit Version)
Nortorious (Ost)
Loso's Way(Explicit Version)
Loso's Way

 
Associated Artists and Works
Artists, Various
Bleek, Memphis
Jeezy, Young
Jeezy, Young
Streets Is Watching [PA] ~ Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Various Artists
Various Artists
Can You Flow? - Instrumental Renditions Of Jay-Z's ~ Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 03/19/2002
Original Release Date : 2002
Catalog ID : 586 783
Label : Def Jam (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00731458678328

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.130)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...When Kelly and Jigga get serious, the results are truly compelling..."

Q (May 2002, p.115)
- 3 out of 5 stars - "...R. Kelly lends his soaring vocal...but leaves plenty of room for Jay-Z's brash, muscular raps..."

  


Customer Reviews
Production 5
Performance 5
Composition 4
Overall Satisfaction 5
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5 of 5 We Are Guilty of Making Classic Hits!!!! Tuesday, March 26, 2002
lildwight from midfield,al  

After the oh so bangin' "Guilty Until Proven Inocent" and the baller's anthem "Fiesta(REMIX)" the two platinum sellers are back with a colabaration album "The Best of Both Worlds". Featuring: "The Best of Both Worlds", "Take Ya Home With Me aka Body", and the club banger "Get This Money". Jay-Z recently got an 5-mic rating for his 6th solo release "The Blueprint" and was given a re-rating for his 1st solo project"Reasonable Doubt" and was voted a 5-mic rating by Source Magazine. And the 5-mic ratings won't end baby, this is on it's way to another one.
 
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