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TP-2.com (2000)

Where the lyrics of TP-2.com take you, and where it was really made.

One of the two number 1 R&B hits here, the Jay-Z remix of "Fiesta", is not actually on the album.

Key places

Chicago Recording Company (2000)

Recording site Chicago Recording Company — The album's credits list Chicago Recording Company as a place where the album was recorded. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Sigma Sound Studios (2000)

Recording site Sigma Sound Studios — The album's credits list Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia as a place where the album was recorded. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

TP-2.com (short for Twelve Play-2): fourth solo album by American R&B artist R. Kelly
Released in November 2000 by Jive Records
Presented as the sequel to 12 Play
Mixes party songs, relationship ballads and a gospel-influenced track
Keeps Kelly's trademark sensuality, with songs such as "The Greatest Sex" and "Strip for You"
Best known for two R&B number 1 hits: "I Wish" and "Fiesta (Remix)" featuring Jay-Z
Official website tp-2.com was taken out of service in 2001

Background

"I Wish" is a tribute song; "Fiesta (Remix)" is a party anthem
The Jay-Z remix is not on the album itself
The "Fiesta" duet inspired the two to create the collaborative project The Best of Both Worlds
Another notable single: "Feelin' On Yo Booty"
The album is the final part of a trilogy that ends with TP.3 Reloaded

Recording

Recorded at Chicago Recording Company and Sigma Sound Studios
Mixed at The Hit Factory, Sony Music Studios and Conway Recording Studios
Credits adapted from AllMusic

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

1	TP‐2	2:19
2	Strip for You	4:10
3	R&B Thug	4:04
4	The Greatest Sex	4:39
5	I Don’t Mean It	4:19
6	Just Like That	4:34
7	Like a Real Freak	4:34
8	Fiesta	3:17
9	Don’t You Say No	4:07
10	The Real R. Kelly	0:54
11	One Me	3:53
12	I Wish	5:35
13	A Woman’s Threat	5:54
14	I Decided	4:12
15	I Mean (I Don’t Mean It)	3:26
16	I Wish – Remix (To the Homies That We Lost)	5:18
17	All I Really Want	3:59
18	Feelin’ on Yo Booty	4:06
19	The Storm Is Over Now	4:33

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

Born Robert Sylvester Kelly on January 8, 1967, on Chicago's South Side, Illinois.
Began performing in the subway under Chicago "L" tracks, busking at the Jackson station on the Red Line.
Joined the group MGM (Musically Gifted Men) formed in 1989, which won a $100,000 prize on the TV show Big Break in 1991 before disbanding.

Career

Signed with Jive Records in 1991; debut Born into the 90's (1992, with Public Announcement) yielded hits including "She's Got That Vibe".
Solo album 12 Play (1993) produced the number-one hit "Bump N' Grind", which spent a record 12 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart.
"I Believe I Can Fly" (1996) won three Grammy Awards in 1998.
Wrote and produced "You Are Not Alone" for Michael Jackson, which debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100.
Sold over 75 million records worldwide; Billboard ranked him the 9th greatest R&B artist of all time.
Convicted in 2021 and 2022 on child sex offences and sentenced to a combined 31 years; his career ended after these convictions.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

Sonicnet: not the masterpiece Kelly seems capable of, but as strong an R&B album as any since R.
Sonicnet: balances the carnal and the spiritual as convincingly as anyone since Prince in the 1980s
Billboard: raises the bar with a 19-track set, not outdone by the singers he influenced
The Village Voice: calls it a magnum opus of the genre
Wall of Sound: production is sharp, with clever vocal and percussion arrangements

Reappraisal

Metacritic: 71 out of 100, based on 9 reviews
Billboard ranked it number 94 on its Top 200 Albums of the Decade

Records

Debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 and on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart
First-week sales of 543,000
Sold over four million copies
Certified 4× Platinum
Number 1 R&B album on the Billboard Year-End chart for 2001
Second album to peak at number 1 on the Billboard 200; fourth to top the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

"I Wish" received a Grammy nomination in 2001 in the Best Male R&B Performance category.
"Threat" by Jay-Z from the album The Black Album appears in the later-samples list, linked to "A Woman's Threat".
The Best of Both Worlds, a joint album with Jay-Z, followed a few months after the "Fiesta" remix.
The website tp-2.com was taken out of service in 2001.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

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