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Jamie Foxx is an American actor, comedian, and singer born in 1967 in Terrell, Texas. Foxx originally rose to stardom as a stand-up comedian and on the television comedy show In Living Color. Foxx has also been featured in movies such as Ray, Collateral, Any Given Sunday, Miami Vice, Booty Call, Django Unchained and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. He has also released the albums Peep This, Unpredictable, Intuition,and Best Night of My Life. Foxx’s hit songs include Unpredictable, Can I Take U Home,and DJ Play a Love Song. He has won awards such as an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Grammy Awards.

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26 May, 2017

Foxx: I doubted West on Slow Jamz

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Foxx says he was convinced Slow Jamz, his 2003 Kanye West and Twista collaboration, would bomb. Foxx was attempting to relaunch his singing career by throwing house parties in LA when he first met Kanye, then an up-and-coming rapper who had just survived a car crash.

I would throw parties just so I could get into music. I had a studio in my house, and when I had music people over, I said, ‘Leave some music in my studio,’ ’cause I was trying to get on. In walks this kid with a backpack on, jaw’s a little busted; it’s Kanye West. I asked Kanye to perform, so he did this freestyle and I said, ‘Oh my God, you’re about to be bigger than life!’.

However, Foxx wasn’t so sure about Kanye’s ability to make hits after West told him to sing the song with less of an R&B feel.

He said, ‘Don’t do that. Things have changed, just sing it simple. So when I sing the song, I’m thinking in my mind, ‘This song ain’t gonna work’. I do the song begrudgingly, leave and do a bad movie for six weeks, come back, [and] when I get back, my homie  said, ‘You know that song you said was bad? It’s number one in the country!’

16 Mar, 2015

On Air interiew

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Seacrest interviews Foxx during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about his single You Changed Me. 

It’s great for me because it’s not too, too young, which my daughter always reminds me, ‘Don’t get too young. My daughter is always on me even when I was trying to wear ‘too young’ of a shoe. With this music, I let her hear the music and she said, ‘Dad, that’s it. You’re young, it’s fly, it’s grown’.

4 May, 2013

Jamie Foxx interview

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Winfrey interviews Jamie Foxx  and talks about being a SNL host and his music career.

In different forms at different times. When I’m in the studio, I’m completely focused on music. But it’s tough for me when I’m with other musicians, as it makes me think of my childhood. When I was younger, I was funny, but I really only wanted to be a recording artist. I just didn’t get the chance – until recently.

Jamie Foxx's Life-Changing Lessons | Oprah's Next Chapter | Oprah Winfrey Network

1 Dec, 2005

O Magazine interview

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Foxx talks to Winfrey for O Magazine about the most successful event in his career.

Winning the Oscar. Everybody was crying. Speedy, a friend I’ve known since I was Eric Bishop, and all the other guys couldn’t hold back. Because it’s like this: Halle and Denzel are supposed to win the Oscars. Speedy and I were always just a couple of Wet Willies [pranksters] with cops harassing us. You know how our folks are: When one of us wins, we all just want to celebrate.

O Magazine Interview

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Foxx gives his thoughts on why winning an Oscar caught him off guard:

Winning the Oscar. Everybody was crying. Speedy, a friend I’ve known since I was Eric Bishop, and all the other guys couldn’t hold back. Because it’s like this: Halle and Denzel are supposed to win the Oscars. Speedy and I were always just a couple of Wet Willies [pranksters] with cops harassing us. You know how our folks are: When one of us wins, we all just want to celebrate.

19 May, 1994

Jamie Foxx interview

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Jamie Foxx is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about how he got a record deal because of his exposure on Hall’s show. He does an acapella of various music that he improvises.

What I do is I take different songs and ladies like Luther when I (sing), ‘I need to have you next to me…in more way than one and I refuse to leave when I see the morning son!’