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Dec 21, 2018

Even j cole killed it on this album

 

May 25, 2016

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Kanye West - "Gold Digger" feat. Jamie Foxx
From Late Registration • Released 7/5/2005
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• Kanye West originally produced and recorded "Gold Digger" in Ludacris's home in Atlanta for Shawnna's 2004 debut album Worth Tha Weight and had written the chorus from a female first-person viewpoint: "I'm not sayin' I'm a gold digger, but I ain't messin' with no broke n----s..." However, for reasons unknown, Shawnna passed on using the song. Not wanting to let it go to waste, West decided to keep the beat for himself and add lyrics expressed from a male's point-of-view.
  
• The second verse of "Gold Digger" was the first to be written, as West used to rap the verse in early 2004 while on tour promoting his debut album, College Dropout. The first verse was made later in the year while West was on Usher's Evolution Tour. Lastly, the original third verse was taken from an unreleased song called "Drop Dead Gorgeous," which West had produced and rapped on for Murphy Lee of St. Lunatics. About a year later, right before "Gold Digger" was set to be released as a single, West decided to write a different third verse.
  
• The idea of employing Jamie Foxx specifically to sing an interpolation of Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman" in place of its initial sample did in fact arise from West seeing the film Ray with his friend John Mayer.
  
• Approximately 80,000 digital downloads of "Gold Digger" were sold through legal music services such as iTunes and Napster in the first week, making it the most successful digital sales debut ever at the time. It was one of the first songs in history to sell over 1,000,000 downloads in the United States.
  
• By reaching number one, "Gold Digger" gave Ray Charles his first Hot 100 chart-topper as a songwriter, credited as a result of the "I Got a Woman" sample. (As an artist, Charles topped the Hot 100 three times in the 1960s, but always with other writers' songs.)
  
• TV shows that have featured "Gold Digger": The Boondocks, Glee, Family Guy, The Big b--- Theory, Black-ish.

It take too much to touch her
From what I heard she got a baby by Busta
My best friend say she use to f--- with Usher
I don't care what none of y'all say, I still love her

 

Sep 12, 2018

It's really happening

 

Jan 7, 2016

wait is this article saying that lollipop is better than lose yourself? oh come on now

 

Apr 28, 2017

Song of the f---ing year

Holy

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Jan 31, 2018

this thread is about best albums from five years ago not bad jokes from five years ago

 

May 12, 2015

More homophobes than I thought on this forum. C'mon, it's 2015.