But it was his 2004 guest spot alongside Kanye West on Twista’s “Slow Jamz” that took him to the top of the charts. The one-time music student at San Diego’s United States International University released his debut album, Peep This, in 1994. I wanted to sing every song its own way, so it doesn’t get mundane.”įinding the right way into a song, of course, is what got Jamie Foxx’s music into the spotlight. “But when Timbaland brought me ‘I Don’t Need It,’ he said, ‘You gotta sing this like a character.’ When Rico Love brought ‘Weekend Lover,’ he said, ‘You gotta have the right swagger on this.’ That sort of freshens up the record. “On a lot of albums, after four or five songs with the same voice you start to feel like it’s the same old thing,” he says. His primary personal goal for Intuition, he says, was attaining a new level of vocal diversity. Unifying all those different flavors is Foxx’s full, supple voice, which he pushes into new territory. “We were trying to be like the Yankees, trying to get the best,” says Foxx. (who spices up the album’s first single, “Just Like Me”), plus production by such hit machines as Tricky and The Dream, Timbaland, and Just Blaze. The album features an astonishing list of guest stars, truly the biggest names in urban music-Lil’ Wayne, Kanye West, T-Pain, T.I. I’d get a call-‘T-Pain’s in the studio, come down now!’ That Ne-Yo remix of ‘She Got Her Own,’ we really just gangstered that session. “I have a studio at my house, so I could work any time, and I would descend on people’s sessions. “We stayed diligent and just kept harvesting records,” says Foxx. Work on the new album started almost immediately after finishing Unpredictable. The other three? No less than the incomparable entertainment legends Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Barbra Streisand.īut with Intuition, Foxx is striving to go even farther-to create a state-of-the-art R&B album that will solidify his place among music’s elite. When his last album, Unpredictable, reached the top spot on the US pop charts in 2006, he became only the fourth person in history to win an Academy Award for acting (for his masterful performance as Ray Charles in 2004’s Ray) and release a Number One album. In thinking like that over the whole album, hopefully we captured what women want to hear.”įoxx doesn’t seem to have trouble giving people what they want. “So with the album ’Intuition,’ I tried to sing about what women really want-they want to have fun, they want to drink the right drink, eat the right food, be talked to a certain way. “I’ve always lived my life trying to understand what women are all about, from the hood to the White House,” he says.

Before Jamie Foxx even started his new album, he had an album title.

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