Four of Kelis' five singles that hit Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart are included on The Hits, as well as three guest spots (one of which, Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Got Your Money," charted), leaving plenty of room for tracks that weren't exactly hits.
Title semantics aside, the disc amounts to a satisfactory, but not optimal, selection of highlights from Kelis' three U.S.-released albums: 1999's Kaleidoscope, 2003's Tasty, and 2006's Kelis Was Here.
(2001's Wanderland, not released in the States, is technically represented through "Young, Fresh N' New," but the song also appeared on Tasty.) Plenty of great material is left off the hourlong sequence, from Tasty's "Rolling Through the Hood" and "Glow" to Kelis Was Here's "Blindfold Me" and "Trilogy," and incorporating "Popular Thug" and/or "Little Suzie" from the Wanderland era would have been a good touch.
Even so, casual listeners who have wondered whether or not Kelis has had depth beyond a hot single off each album -- "Caught Out There," "Milkshake," "Bossy" -- will get the answer here, and that answer is yes.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lil Star | Kelis, C-Lo, Cee Lo Green | Play | 04:55 | 11 MB | 34 MB |
| 4 mins | 11 MB | |||||
| 4 mins | 34 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | André 3000 | Producer |
| 2 | Dallas Austin | Composer, Producer |
| 3 | C-Lo | Primary Artist |
| 4 | Shondrae "Mr. Bangladesh" Crawford | Producer |
| 5 | Kevin KD Davis | Mixing |
| 6 | John Frye | Producer |
| 7 | Sean Garrett | Producer |
| 8 | Serban Ghenea | Mixing |
| 9 | Cee Lo Green | Primary Artist, Producer |
| 10 | Pete Hofmann | Mixing |
| 11 | Chad Hugo | Composer |
| 12 | Ken "Duro" Ifill | Mixing |
| 13 | Kelis | Primary Artist |
| 14 | Markus Klinko | Photography |
| 15 | Jonathan Mannion | Photography |
| 16 | Andrew Murabito | Design |
| 17 | N.E.R.D | Primary Artist |
| 18 | Nas | Primary Artist |
| 19 | The Neptunes | Producer |
| 20 | Ol' Dirty Bastard | Primary Artist |
| 21 | Dave Pensado | Mixing |
| 22 | Pusha T | Primary Artist |
| 23 | Rockwilder | Producer |
| 24 | Pauline St. Denis | Photography |
| 25 | Dexter Simmons | Mixing |
| 26 | Dana Stinson | Composer |
| 27 | Phil Tan | Mixing |
| 28 | Terrar | Primary Artist |
| 29 | Gene Thornton | Composer |
| 30 | Terrence Thornton | Composer |
| 31 | Too $hort | Primary Artist |
| 32 | Richard Travali | Mixing |
| 33 | Pharrell Williams | Composer |
| 34 | Richard X | Primary Artist, Producer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |