R. Kelly and Kanye West teamed up for a track on Kanye’s Cruel Summer called “To The World.” The Chi-town natives have never worked together but the duo certainly knew each other from back when Jay-Z and R. Kelly were working together. Kellz said that he and Kanye always had fun when they hit the club together but never hit the studio. So how did the studio sessions between them go and how did it come about? Find out below.

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“Kanye sent me a track he was working on. I sent it back. He sent it back to me, I sent it back to him… until we had something,” the singer said. “It felt good to both of us. He trusts my talent and I trust his talent. I knew Kanye way before he was known. We’ve always had fun in the clubs or wherever we were, just kickin’ it, but we never had a chance to get in the studio before and hook up like this, and I’m just glad we finally got that chance,” he said. “I’m just very honored to be on this track working with him.”