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List Price: $8.99 | | Label: Jive
Salesrank: 176795
Released: May 29, 2007 |
| Our Price: $2.99 |
| Used Price: $0.71 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Double Up Track Listing:
1. Champ - R. Kelly, Swizz Beatz
2. Double Up - R. Kelly, Snoop Dogg
3. Tryin' to Get a Number - R. Kelly, Nelly
4. Get Dirty - Chamillionaire, R. Kelly
5. Leave Your Name
6. Freaky in the Club
7. Zoo
8. I'm a Flirt [Remix] - R. Kelly, T-Pain, , T.I.
9. Same Girl
10. Real Talk
11. Hook It Up - Huey, R. Kelly
12. Rock Star - R. Kelly, Kid Rock, Ludacris,
13. Best Friend - Keyshia Cole, , R. Kelly, Polow da Don
14. Rollin'
15. Sweet Tooth
16. Havin' a Baby
17. Sex Planet
18. Rise Up
Editorial Review:
The King of R&B's Double Up delivers a potent potion of pure signature R&B with some Hip Hop on top. Featuring collaborations with T.I., T-Pain, and more, the legendary R. Kelly joins forces with some of the hottest and best Hip-Hop talent and the result is fiercly sexy. From the steamy "Pull Ya Hair", to the smooth stylin of "Freaky In The Club," fans around the globe will jump at the opportunity to Double Up with R. Kelly.
Double Up Reviews:
Just another day at the office... 
2007-06-10 - 4 of 5 Stars
The most difficult task a music lover and follower of R&B/Hip-Hop has when listening to the latest and greatest R.Kelly album is identifying which one of his multiple personalities will be the center of focus for his creative genius.
All of them have provided us with #1 hits and albums and all of them offer enough material to fill a double-disc project and then some.
In case you have a hard time remembering:
R.Kelly: The "bread-and-butter". He will bump and grind you and make you want to wax your Jeep!
The R: Smooth and silky. Like an assembly line at a Chocolate Factory.
Robert Kelly: The more human side. Spiritual, inspirational and uplifting.
The Weatherman: Put on your dancing shoes and "step to the left--step to the right".
Kellz: Hip-Hop with a vengeance! A fusion of smooth and calculated R-and-B with a shot of hip-hop.
His latest effort at making our Jeep speakers burst and our sexual energy peak is Double Up; where the personality "Kellz" runs wild. The artist who invented sing-rapping gives us flow and energy that some artists who classify themselves as rappers can rarely do. The flow between whatever catchy and infectious chorus the R in R&B has decided to infect our minds with is so calculated, so smooth and so rhythmic that on some phrases he doesn't even bother rhyming or connecting the phrases! But at that point, who cares?! R.Kelly's latest literally "has you at hello".
The system that this album works off of has become a staple for the 2000's era of R.Kelly releases. Why create an album based on each personality when you can include ALL of R.Kelly's platinum selling personas at different points in the album? Once he does this, all other R&B singers might as well pack their bags.
R.Kelly brings us lustful and dripping sexual metaphors that which can only come from a man who calls his unit a " giant rocket full of fuel" are found in cuts like Sex Planet, The Zoo and Sweet Tooth. They leave your leg shaking and eyes rolled back for the complete four to five minutes.
Kellz unleashes beasts of radio and windows-down-anthems like Im'a Flirt (Remix), Double Up, Rollin' and Hook It Up. Not only can these be found at your local club but they can also be found endlessly echoing in your head days after your first listen.
Somewhere in the midst of this musical orgasm you find yourself in the Caribbean dancing on the beach with cuts like Freaky in the Club and I Like Love. The Weatherman's taste for the international is only complimented by his taste for a Pina Colada!
The R in R&B's lyrical operas such as Best Friend, Same Girl and Real Talk are in a genre of their own. No one in modern music has been able to construct, compose, story-tell and touch audiences like R.Kelly's sinful and guilty pleasure soap opera music.
After sleeping off the club, sex and fights with his girlfriend we find Robert Kelly serenading us about the birth of his child in Having a Baby. Soon after that we are all driven to Rise Up out of the terrible Virginia Tech tragedy like only R.Kelly inspirational music can make us do.
A song that currently has no real R.Kelly personality tagged to it and is by far the most standout track is Rockstar. This monster of a song featuring Ludacris, Kid Rock and Kellz himself leaves your jaw somewhere by your all-white Air Forice Ones. The haunting electric guitar beat laced with Kellz sing-rapping and Luda's taste for the sexually outrageous is enough. But couple that with Kid Rock's 80's power ballad verse and ubiquitous screaming and you have somewhere R&B and Hip-Hop has NEVER gone before...and would be inclined to say it should go more often.
Double Up is new, fresh, innovative, constructive, risky, calculated and a top seller.
But that's just what R.Kelly does and has done for more than 15 years.
Not What He Used To Be! 
2007-06-03 - I will start by sayng that I am a 34yr old who was hooked on Kelly since his start with Public Announcement. I was 15 or 16 and Kelly was the bomb. Somewhere after You Remind Me, it went all wrong! I gues we, his initial audience, became to old for his interest so he aimed for the younger fans and got himself wrapped up.
Nevertheless, I supported him. I remember when Chocolate City was released with the bonus Loveland disc, I was the only person waiting to purchase it and got it for only $7.99. Best purchase I ever made as I still play it continously to this day.
Well, I have said all this to say it's been a long time for Kelly to still be in the game but it is time he realizes that a 40 yr old SHOULD NOT be still singing about being a babby daddy and tryin to get a number. I mean the same girl track, come on - he nor Usher is 15!
I rated this album 1 star because I am not a 13 yr old and two, zeros aren't a choice.
kellz is by far the best in the game of R&B/Hip -Hop...enough said 
2007-06-02 - for all these people on here saying kellz have no depth it is totally unbelievable...yes we all remember at our middle school graduation we all were trying to sing i believe i can fly..but thats the beauty of kellz..the man reinvents himself on every album..he can sing...harmonize, rap..and it will be good no matter what..so this is not a tradtional chocolate factory or best of both worlds or The "R"..this album is suited for younger fans and loyal fans..i wouldnt expect a newly recruited R kelly fan to be excited to buy this album but he is a seller when it comes to his music...forget all his scandals and take the cd for its face value...he is the best in the game and he is over 40 thats says alot either about kellz or R&B in general...you figure it out..this album will go platinum or better i gurantee....
Soon to be a Classic
2007-06-02 - I'm neutral. I remember how R. Kelly was in the beginning. He did more traditional singing. I'll admit that. But, he also had hip hop. After much success in the past year with rap collaborations, "Double Up" is just an extension of that.
Yes, the lyrics weren't deep. But, neither are lyrics for most of the urban stuff coming out these days. So to blame it on just R. Kelly isn't fair. You also have the fans who dictate what's going to fly.
All that said, I like the album from a music standpoint. The production is nice. Most of the rap cameos (minus Nelly) work. The "Zoo" song featuring animal noises was silly toward the end. But, there's also "Rise Up". It's about Virginia Tech, but I'm sure Kelly had that song in the works prior. It's something you can listen to for any situation. Oh..and there's a bonus song that's good.
Overall,I like the album. I see what other people are saying from BOTH sides. But, R. Kelly is an artist who we all should know by now what we're getting into when we purchase an album. There's no real surprises.
It's not supposed to be an R&B album, folks!
2007-06-01 - Listen to the lyrics of the opening song "The Champ": he's sticking with the 'hood cuz he's from the 'hood. Just because he's switched genres a bit doesn't mean it sucks. In fact, in my opinion, this is a damn fine rap/hip-hop album, especially compared to the crap you hear on the radio these days (are you listening, "Rich Boy"?) And, uh, yeah, the songs are almost all about sex....this is Kells we're talking about here! Oh and anyone who thinks he's a pedophile needs to read "Hammer of the Gods". Rock stars have been having sex with teenage girls since the beginning of time. 'Nuff said.
