Twista, Kanye West & Jamie Foxx, Slow Jamz | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 38^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we highlight “Slow Jamz” performed by Twista, Kanye West & Jamie Foxx.

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and/or stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 38^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we break down “Slow Jamz” performed by Twista, Kanye West, and Jamie Foxx.

“She was talkin’ about the music all fast in the club, you know / She gotta drink water ‘cause she thirsty,” Jamie Foxx states in the intro of the Billboard Hot 100 no. 1 hit, “Slow Jamz”.  “Slow Jamz” was released as a single in late 2003 and reached its peak in 2004.  Credited to Twista, Kanye West, and Foxx, it appeared on both Twista’s 2004 album, Kamikaze, and West’s landmark, 2004 album, The College Dropout. “Slow Jamz” cleverly and famously samples the Luther Vandross classic, “A House is Not a Home”. Anyways, after establishing the need to ‘emphasize the ladies,’ Foxx drops a soulful chorus: “She said she want some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross / A little Anita [Baker] will definitely set this party off right /… She said she want some Ready for the World, some New Edition / Some Minnie Riperton will definitely set this party off right.” Ooh-wee – that old school!

Kanye West not only produces “Slow Jamz,” but he takes the honor of performing the first verse.  This is the signature, old-school Kanye with his distinct, entertaining bars.  Two stellar examples: “She be grabbin’, callin’ me Biggie like Shyne home,” and “She got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson / Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson.” *Cues up the MJ yelp! Before Twista brings his fast-paced flow, Jamie Foxx name-drops more noted old-school artists who excel at slow jams. Aisha Tyler, however, wants to speed things up, hence, gassing up Twista! Twista’s bars name-drop the likes of Evelyn Champagne, Whispers, Spinners, and Earth Wind & Fire among others.  Of course, the modus operandi is “Fulfilling our every temptation / Slow jammin’, havin’ deep sex.” Ooh-wee!  Two decades later, “Slow Jamz” is a timeless bop. Twista, Kanye, and Jamie Foxx did that she-it!

Kanye West // The College Dropout // UMG Recordings, Inc. // 2004

Twista, Kanye West & Jamie Foxx, Slow Jamz: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 38 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; UMG Recordings, Inc.; cottonbro studio, Harry Shelton, Kool Shooters, Lucas Pazeta, Mavluda Tashbaeva, Teddy Yang, Wesley Souza from Pexels]