| "Slow Jamz" | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Single by Twista featuring Kanye West & Jamie Foxx | ||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Kamikaze and The College Dropout | ||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Badunkadunk" | |||||||||||||||||||
| Released | December 2, 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Format | 12" maxi single | |||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Hip hop, R&B | |||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:32 (Kamikaze version) 5:15 (The College Dropout version) |
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| Label | Atlantic | |||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | C.C. Mitchell Kanye West Burt Bacharach Hal David |
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| Producer | Kanye West | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Slow Jamz" is the Grammy-nominated first single from Twista's album Kamikaze and from Kanye West's debut album The College Dropout. Released in 2003, the single, which features Kanye West and Jamie Foxx peaked at number one in the USA for a week on February 10, 2004 becoming Twista's, West's and Foxx's first number one single. The Kanye West version includes an intro and two extra verses by Jamie Foxx, and excludes the original outro by Twista. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Q magazine listed it as the nineteenth greatest hip-hop song of all time.[1]
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The song is a tribute to classic smooth soul artists and slow jam songs. Kanye West is the song's producer and supplies the first verse, Twista gives the second verse and the outro, and actor/singer Jamie Foxx sings the chorus. The song's hook – "Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be, well well well well" – is taken from Luther Vandross's version of "A House Is Not a Home."
Twista's first verse is given a memorable introduction with innuendo from West and former Talk Soup host Aisha Tyler:
The song refers to the following soul artists (chronologically in the song):
The video shows a party; at first we see Jamie Foxx buying records for the party then it goes to the party where Kanye West and Twista are. It includes cameo appearances by Common, John Legend, Mike Epps, and Aisha Tyler.
| Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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| Australia (ARIA)[2] | 26 |
| Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[3] | 4 |
| Germany (Media Control AG)[4] | 58 |
| Netherlands (Mega Single Top 100)[5] | 15 |
| New Zealand (RIANZ)[6] | 9 |
| UK Singles Chart | 3 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs | 1 |
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