R. Kelly "Double Up" Era (MAY 29, 2007)

[shaq91]

kool, cant wait to hear it, hope it goes to #1.

[Linnethia Monique]

1. The Champ - Featuring Swizz Beatz
2. Double Up - Featuring Snoop Dogg
3. Tryin' To Get A Number - Featuring Nelly
4. Get Dirty - Featuring Chamillionaire
5. Leave Your Name
6. Freaky In The Club
7. The Zoo
8. I'm A Flirt Remix - Featuring T. I. & T- Pain
9. Same Girl- Featuring Usher
10. Real Talk
11. Hook It Up - Featuring Huey
12. Rock Star - Featuring Ludacris & Kid Rock
13. Best Friend - Featuring Keyshia Cole & Polow Da Don
14. Rollin'
15. Sweet Tooth
16. Havin' A Baby
17. Sex Planet
18. Rise Up

Thats the official tracklisting.

[XXIX]

Curious about "Best Friend"... assuming Polow produced it as well.

[Linnethia Monique]

thereboundkid said:

Curious about "Best Friend"... assuming Polow produced it as well.

Me too lol! I wanna see if Polow and Keyshia can recreate what they did on their last collabo.

[XXIX]

bigmac2098 said:

thereboundkid said:

Curious about "Best Friend"... assuming Polow produced it as well.

Me too lol! I wanna see if Polow and Keyshia can recreate what they did on their last collabo.

Ehh.. you could've added add any singer there, LOL. Keyshia just doesn't cut it for me. Oh and you never answered my last PM, LOL.

[SHOOTER]

bigmac2098 said:

1. The Champ - Featuring Swizz Beatz
2. Double Up - Featuring Snoop Dogg
3. Tryin' To Get A Number - Featuring Nelly
4. Get Dirty - Featuring Chamillionaire
5. Leave Your Name
6. Freaky In The Club
7. The Zoo
8. I'm A Flirt Remix - Featuring T. I. & T- Pain
9. Same Girl- Featuring Usher
10. Real Talk
11. Hook It Up - Featuring Huey
12. Rock Star - Featuring Ludacris & Kid Rock
13. Best Friend - Featuring Keyshia Cole & Polow Da Don
14. Rollin'
15. Sweet Tooth
16. Havin' A Baby
17. Sex Planet
18. Rise Up

Thats the official tracklisting.

A track called "Ringtone" was added to the last final t/l I saw. But I'm done trying to debate over this. Wait until the CD drops and anybody who wants to know can look at the back cover.

[busyboy]

R. Kelly's Double Up Tracklist Revealed
Still not revealed? R. Kelly's trial date

"Everything I did in the past," R. Kelly says of his new album, "I'm about to double up on it." Double the pleasure, double the fun, double the extended metaphors for his bone; it's all there on Double Up, Robert Sylvester Kelly's latest epic, due May 29 on Jive.

Like every R. Kelly album before it, Double Up will eagerly and inexplicably soundtrack any church picnic, hotbox session, or freakin' of dat booty you might be partaking in. Fans of TP.3 Reloaded might've wondered how their boy Kells could possibly top the untoppable two-fer of "Sex Weed" and "(Sex) in the Kitchen", but Double Up's got that on lock: "Freaky in the Club"? "The Zoo"? "Sex Planet"? The man gets around.

Of course, we couldn't leave this little track-order curio uncommented-on: "Sex Planet"-- we delight in the possibility of a line rhyming "Venus" with, well, you know-- immediately proceeds "Rise Up", the track R. penned to commemorate the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings. That R. Kelly; he's nothing if not tactful.

And, like every R. Kelly album before it, Double Up is doubled-over with guest spots; this time, from the likes of Snoop, Luda, T.I.P., Polow Da Don, and, on "Rock Star," Kid Rock. From this, we gather R. Kelly hasn't met a rock star in, like, eight years.

In addition to crafting Double Up, Robert's apparently been working on the next "Trapped in the Closet" installments (13-23 due this summer, allegedly!) and surfing the web (parents: now might be a good time to invest in that Net Nanny). He's started a YouTube channel in hopes of revealing the inner life of the man they call Kells. If the first episode is any indication, R. Kelly's life consists of singing silly sex songs off the dome to unsuspecting ladies. Exactly as I'd hoped. Observe:

And me? I accept!

Double Up:

01 The Champ (ft. Swizz Beatz)
02 Double Up (ft. Snoop Dogg)
03 Tryin' to Get a Number (ft. Nelly)
04 Get Dirty (ft. Chamillionaire)
05 Leave Your Name
06 Freaky in the Club
07 The Zoo
08 I'm a Flirt Remix (ft. T.I. & T-Pain)
09 Same Girl (ft. Usher)
10 Real Talk
11 Hook it Up (ft. Huey)
12 Rock Star (ft. Ludacris & Kid Rock)
13 Best Friend (ft. Keyshia Cole & Polow Da Don)
14 Rollin'
15 Sweet Tooth
16 Havin' a Baby
17 Sex Planet
18 Rise Up

[SHOOTER]

Damn, that looks so freakin similar to the t/l I posted at the very beginning. HMMMM.

[Linnethia Monique]

ohshooter said:

Damn, that looks so freakin similar to the t/l I posted at the very beginning. HMMMM.

Its the same one but rearranged.

[busyboy]

Too bad Kid Rock is still on there...

[damnnnitzzjohn]

I am just so shocked at that.

No "Blow It Up"?

No song with Rick Ross or Kanye West?

Otherwise, it would've been perfect.

[damnnnitzzjohn]

I can live w/o Rick Ross, but I would've liked Kanye West instead of Huey.

Also, "Blow It Up", I never heard all of it, and I didn't really even like it anyways...

so actually, I just wish Kanye was on it and I would be satisified.

Nelly and Chamillionaire will be cool to hear also...damn why couldnt kanye be on the track! DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!

oh well almost all cds guests let me down

i should stop ragging lol but icant! damn you r kelly i want kanye!

did he at least produce anything?

[busyboy]

Leaked!

[SHOOTER]

I'm scared to listen.

[busyboy]

Ew, I expected much more given his long history of at least more than decent albums...

- The first six songs leave me numb, this hip hop experiment only worked with the songs he was featured on in recent months.

- "The Zoo" is intriguing but the lyrics are dumber than usual (not that he's the greatest lyricist in the world, but still).

- "I'm A Flirt" still sounds good to me, but after three months I'm almost saturated.

- "Same Girl" is OK, but given Kells and Usher's stature it's a bit underwhelming.

- "Hook It Up" is pretty cool in my books.

- "Rock Star" is not the mess I was expecting (Goodie Mob's "Just About Over", for example, is the kind of song I though this would be, but that's another decade and artist), but the sort of symphonic bridge scares me. Kid Rock only screams a bit towards the end of the song, when live samples of people cheering and applauding kick in. Ew.

- "Sweet Tooth" is a rehash of "In The Kitchen", it even features the same drop sample. Unfortunate rehash, that is.

- "Sex Planet" is also cool in my books.

- "Rise Up" could have been much, much worse than what it is.

- Bonus track "I Like Love" sounds like a reggae-like rehash of "Bad Man". Unfortunate rehash in this case too.

As I noted before, the lyrics are dumber than usual, and the rest of the songs are undeniably in his style, but they sound average to me.

I will definitely pass on it this time, he can still think he's the Ali or Marvin Gaye of our time but I won't contribute to his ego trip.

[Live Your Life]

This album is pretty good, one of his best in a few years.

[sdot23]

I like this album.

[areyoureadytojump]

Why isn't this man in jail?????

He filmed a sex video with a 15-year girl!!

If I did this, I'd be in jail.

[sdot23]

LOL he is still awaiting trial!!

[damnnnitzzjohn]

I heard the album is really good. I got to preview a few songs the other day, and they were all really good.

Can't wait until next week!

[damnnnitzzjohn]

Estimated to do 400,000 next week!

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

xhosaidx said:

This album is pretty good, one of his best in a few years.

Most definitely! My favorite song right now is Sex Planet. Others I liked included the title track, Rollin, Hook It Up & Same Girl

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

areyoureadytojump said:

Why isn't this man in jail?????

He filmed a sex video with a 15-year girl!!

If I did this, I'd be in jail.

A lot will depend if R. Kelly knew the girl was 15. If a woman was sleeping with a 15 year old boy like all these teachers are doing she would get off with a slap on the wrist....the only difference is that these teachers know the boys they sleep with are underage.

[SHOOTER]

Well....the album is as horrible as I thought it would be. I've officially given up hope of R. ever releasing any more classic material. *cherishes CF forever*

[reception]

Reviewed by Steve Jones
USA Today

R. Kelly, Double Up: * * * 1/2 (out of four) Clubbing into submission

R. Kelly sure likes club-hopping. On his latest album, he hangs out with a wide range of famous friends - Snoop Dogg, Nelly, Usher, Huey, Ludacris, Kid Rock, Keyshia Cole - as he makes his nightly rounds in search of sexual conquests. Hit single I’m a Flirt only hints at his real mission. Occasionally he stops to sleep off an all-nighter or upbraid a lover suspicious of his good-timing. But mostly, he’s vintage R. Kelly, chasing women to the thump of trunk-rattling beats.

He seems basically unbothered by the drama surrounding him - including a five-year cloud of child pornography charges - and makes no effort to tone things down. The only thing that seems out of place here is the well-meaning Rise Up, tacked on at the end and dedicated to the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. But such inspirational songs are as much a part of the Kelly canon as the libidinous ones.

[areyoureadytojump]

Out today in the USA!!

Do you think it will sell 400k in its debut week?

[areyoureadytojump]

HITS:

NEXT WEEK IN REVIEW: Jive/ZLG soul star R. Kelly's Double Up hit retail yesterday and is on target to top next week's HITS Album chart, with a total that looks just this side of 400k.

[busyboy]

Like his albums usually do, Double Up debuts at #61 on the R&B albums chart on street violations.

[sdot23]

lol its gonna jump 61-1 next week then.

[busyboy]

^ Yeah, he usually does that.