Jeremy "Kinetics" Dussolliet and Tim "One Love" Sommers are an American musical duo from New York City. They made their commercial debut as songwriters in 2010 by penning the chorus to B.o.B's single "Airplanes". They have collaborated with R.A. the Rugged Man and Remedy from Wu-Tang Killa Bees, Termanology and the Unknown Prophets, Neon Hitch, Melanie Martinez, Madison Beer and Wynter Gordon.

Kinetics & One Love
Kinetics & One Love
Kinetics & One Love
Background information
OriginNew York City
Genres
Years active2009–present
MembersJeremy "Kinetics" Dussolliet
Tim "One Love" Sommers
Websitewww.kineticsandonelove.com

About

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Kinetics & One Love began writing music together after meeting in 2007 and forming a hip-hop group – with Kinetics as the rapper and One Love as the producer.[1] In 2009, they released their first album Fading Back to Normal, featuring the original Kinetics & One Love version of "Airplanes," with One Love production and Kinetics rap verses. After handing out a few hundred copies of the album around New York, a copy made its way into the offices of Atlantic Records in New York City. While still college students at Cornell University, Dussolliet and Sommers were invited to the label to speak with A&Rs from Atlantic and, in early 2010, signed a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.[2] "Airplanes" was bought by Atlantic and became the second single off rapper B.o.B's debut album, The Adventures of Bobby Ray.[3] Paramore's Hayley Williams was also featured on the track.[3] The song climbed to the number 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. A second version of "Airplanes" featuring Eminem was also included on B.o.B's album and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration.

After the release of "Airplanes," Kinetics & One Love moved to New York City and began writing and producing for various pop and indie artists, managed by Nullah Sarker of Hourglass Entertainment. In the summer of 2012, Kinetics released a hip-hop mixtape entitled With A Little Help From My Friends, with guest appearances by R.A. the Rugged Man, Remedy, Nitty Scott, and others.[4] One Love produced half of the songs on the mixtape and mixed and engineered the entire project. On August 28, 2012, Kinetics & One Love released their second album You Are Not Alone, with guest appearances from Termanology, Wynter Gordon, and Nitty Scott. The album broke the top ten on the iTunes hip-hop chart and climbed to #55 on the all albums iTunes chart. It also landed at No. 57 on Billboard Magazine's R&B/Hip-Hop chart and No. 32 on its Heatseekers chart.[citation needed].

Selected songwriting and production credits

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Year Artist Song Album Certification
2023 Jimin of BTS, Kodak Black, NLE Choppa, JVKE, Muni Long Angel Pt. 1 Fast X Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Madison Beer Home To Another One Silence Between Songs
Melanie Martinez TUNNEL VISION Portals
MILK OF THE SIREN
Julia Wolf Get Off My Good Thing We Stayed
Hot Killer
Rookie Of The Year
Sorority Girls
Dracula
2022 Rosa Linn Snap Single Gold
Madison Beer Showed Me (How I Fell In Love With You) Single
Dangerous Single
Fletcher Better Version [feat. Kelsea Ballerini] Girl Of My Dreams
Becky's So Hot
Guess We Lied
Tate McRae What's Your Problem I Used To Think I Could Fly
Bryce Vine y can't we b friends? Single
American Dream Single
Morgan Evans Over for You Single
2021 Madison Beer Selfish Life Support Platinum
Good In Goodbye
Stay Numb and Carry On
Homesick
Sour Times
Baby
Stained Glass
Reckless Single
Anthony Ramos Blessings Love and Lies
Control
Pray For Me
Charlotte Lawrence Rx Charlotte
Julia Wolf Falling In Love Girls In Purgatory
2020 Jennifer Lopez In the Morning Single
Lil Wayne Dreams Funeral
Adam Lambert Velvet Velvet
FLETCHER Forever Single
Last Laugh Promising Young Woman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
lovelytheband Emo Conversations With Myself About You
I Should Be Happy
Travis Barker, Captain Cuts, Loote, Home Alone Sex With My Ex Single
2019 Tate McRae Stupid all the things i never said Gold
Madison Beer Dear Society Single
Melanie Martinez Drama Club K-12
FLETCHER Undrunk you ruined new york city for me Gold
If You're Gonna Lie
Anthony Ramos Come Back Home The Good & The Bad
David Guetta Better When You're Gone [Feat. Loote] Single
Loote 85% lost
Tomorrow Tonight
Lost
She's All Yours
2017 Marc E. Bassy Plot Twist (feat. KYLE) Gossip Columns
Plot Twist (Remix) [feat. Hailee Steinfeld]
Hailee Steinfeld Most Girls Single 2x Platinum
Grace VanderWaal Sick of Being Told Just the Beginning
2016 The Lonely Island Incredible Thoughts (feat. Michael Bolton and Justin Timberlake) Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2015 Melanie Martinez Dollhouse Cry Baby 2x Platinum
Carousel Platinum
Sippy Cup Gold
Mrs. Potato Head Gold
Alphabet Boy Gold
Cry Baby Gold
Mad Hatter Platinum
Milk And Cookies Gold
Katy Tiz Whistle (While You Work It) Single
2014 Pitbull This Is Not A Drill (feat. Bebe Rexha) Globalization
2010 B.o.B Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams of Paramore) B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray 6x Platinum
Airplanes, Pt. II (feat. Eminem & Hayley Williams of Paramore)

Discography

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  • The Kinetics EP (2008) (solo Kinetics project)
  • Fading Back To Normal (2009)
  • With A Little Help From My Friends (2012) (solo Kinetics project)
  • You Are Not Alone (2012)

Awards

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  • 2011 Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration
  • 2011 ASCAP Pop Music Award
  • 2011 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Award

References

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  1. ^ "Alumni Hip-Hoppers Flying High | The Cornell Daily Sun". Cornellsun.com. 2010-04-22. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  2. ^ Glaser, Linda (2010-05-03). "Students' hip-hop hit hot: Recording by B.o.B. and Eminem jumps to iTunes No. 2 | Cornell Chronicle". News.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  3. ^ a b Glaser, Linda (2010-05-03). "Students' hip-hop hit hot: Recording by B.o.B. and Eminem jumps to iTunes No. 2 | Cornell Chronicle". News.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  4. ^ "BlackBook Premiere: Kinetics' 'With a Little Help From My Friends' Mixtape". Bbook.com. 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
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