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I've been listening to The Best of Both Worlds all day... I am really happy with this record, it's far better than I would have ever expected, especially considering my bias against R. Kelly. After all, I wasn't too eager to listen to the guy who is responsible for "I Believe I Can Fly", which has got to be one of the worst hit songs in pop history. I wasn't at all skeptical about Jay-Z...the man has been on fire lately, and that fire continues to blaze on with this record.
The record isn't perfect - there's a few songs which veer off too far into obnoxious standard R. Kelly territory, but even those are pretty tolerable. The songs that work, REALLY WORK. I'm talking about some sleek, state-of-the-art sexy funk with R. Kelly crooning solid hooks and Jay-Z rhyming just as great if not better than on The Blueprint. The stand-out songs on this record aren't far off from "I Just Want 2 Love U" from Roc-La-Familia... "Honey" sounds like it was seperated at birth from that song in the best possible way, and "Take You Home With Me aka Body" even shares a verse with that song, though it's sung by R. Kelly instead of rapped by Jay-Z. The track with Lil Kim is another keeper("Shake Your Body"), as is the closer "Pussy", which is far more clever than that Amazon.com review I linked to gives it credit for.
Have any of you heard this record yet? What do you think?
Cherry, Flyboy - you've both got to hear this record. That probably goes without saying, though... |
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