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Buy "The Best of Both Worlds"
- BEST OF BOTH WORLD'S is in stores March 26, 2002 on
JIVE/ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM RECORDS
- "Take You Home (Body)" and "Get This Money" are the
first two singles
off BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. Streams of both singles will be be world
premiered on AOL Monday 2/11.
- BET will be airing a 30-minute behind the scenes making of "The Best
of Both Worlds" special in March.
- Jay-Z/R. Kelly to be the AOL Artist of the Month for March 2002
(Exposure across AOL's proprietary network, as well as AOL Instant
Messenger, ICQ, Compuserve, Netscape and Radio@AOL throughout the month
of March)
- R. Kelly and the Trackmasters both produced 6 tracks on the album
- Jay-Z quote: "R. and I have always said that we were
going to do a
project together," stated Jay-Z. "We literally combined the 'best
of
both worlds' of R&B and hip-hop. There is no other artist that could be
the other half of this equation. It's the right time."
- R. Kelly quote "There's nothing greater than two of the best people
in
their fields individually coming together, creating the best album they
can make together," stated R. Kelly. "I couldn't imagine accomplishing
something like that with anyone else other than Jay-Z. Let the album
tell you why."
- Jay-Z has been nominated for 5 Grammy Awards (3 this year), as well as
3 Billboard Music Awards, 4 Radio Music Awards and 3 MTV Music Awards.
- In 2002, Jay-Z topped Billboard's list as the #1 Rap Artist, #1 R&B
Mainstream Artist and the #1 Crossover artist.
- Five of Jay-Z's last 6 albums have debuted at #1 in Billboard,
including his last critically acclaimed album, THE BLUEPRINT, which was
released on September 11th and scanned over 410,000 copies in it's first
week in stores. Jay-Z recently released an Unplugged album in December,
marking the first hip-hop artist to release an Unplugged album and only
the 2nd time a hip-hop artist has appeared on the show.
- R.Kelly won three Grammy Awards in 1997 for his inspirational hit "I
Believe I Can Fly" from the motion picture SPACE JAM. He was rewarded
the 1994, 1996, 1999 and 2001 Billboard Music Award for Best R&B Album
of The Year and awarded a 1999 American Music Award for R&B/Soul
Favorite Male Artist of the Year for the multi-platinum R. R. Kelly has
written and/or produced for Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Kelly Price,
Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Toni Braxton, Mary J. Blige and
Maxwell.
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