Produced by Harold Lilly, Jim Jonsin and Bigg D Written by Derrick Baker, Harold Lilly, James Scheffer and Ludacris Collipark, RL and Harold Lilly) about their experiences crafting some of the singles, as well as some standouts. In celebration of the 15th anniversary of Unpredictable, Rated R&B spoke with a few of Foxx’s collaborators (Sean Garrett, Mike City, Mr. I let them know my ideas, and they would let me know if it was cool.” “We just linked up with the hottest cats. “The Jamie Foxx thing is how you get into your own thing, you sing your own songs, you write these cushy songs and try to be safe,” he explained. He told The Associated Press that he “didn’t want to do a ‘Jamie Foxx thing'” on this album. This time, he recruited more producers and songwriters to help shape what would become a musical masterpiece. He took a slightly different approach to Unpredictable compared to Peep This. With his new deal, Foxx started working on his sophomore album, which was initially titled Southern Gentleman, before being renamed Unpredictable.
2 on the charts, and soon rose to the top spot.Two weeks before the film’s October 2004 release, it was announced that Foxx, who appeared on Twista’s Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “Slow Jamz” with Kanye West, had signed a deal with Clive Davis’ label J Records. In late 2005, he released Unpredictable, a collection of glossy R&B tracks featuring collabos with Kanye West and Ludacris among others. One of his tunes from the film was sampled by Kanye West as the basis for "Gold Digger," another No. That same year he dazzled audiences with his turn as Ray Charles in the biopic Ray, where he flexed his pipes again, singing all of the songs in the film and taking home a Best Actor Oscar for his performance. In 2004, he sang the hook on Twista's smash hit "Slow Jamz," and people everywhere took note of his smooth vocal abilities. Despite being known primarily as an actor/comedian, his first love was always music, and he actually released a little-heard debut album entitled Peep This back in 1994. He then starred in his own self-titled sitcom for several years before making the switch to feature films. Born in small town Texas and raised by his grandparents, Jamie Foxx found early success on the comedy club circuit, before joining the cast of the Wayans brothers' sketch TV show In Living Color.
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