This duet was a bigger deal than you remember.
It spent ten weeks on the tops of the charts - replacing another Nelly song, by the way.
The songwriting team behind the song was the same team that defined the Philadelphia Soul sound in the 1970s.
It won a Grammy.
It brought the term "boo" into the vernacular.
It gave Kelly Rowland her biggest post-Destiny's Child hit and made people remember that the group was a lot more than just Beyoncé.
This single caused Beyoncé to delay HER album release, in order to get out of Kelly's way.
It sparked a SEQUEL! Yes, there's a sequel song.
So yeah. It was a big deal.
But none of that matters, really. It's a good song that tells the story of two people infatuated with each other, and does so in a smooth way.
When you have two huge stars like Nelly and Kelly Rowland involved, it's not easy to get them together live, but it does happen occasionally.
And when it does, it is spectacular.
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