When Booty Calls, Life's Good

Jamie Foxx starts his story with a man named Sean John Combs. A playboy, Puff Daddy was known for throwing multi million dollar bashes. As such, Foxx decided top present him with a challenge. He boasted he could throw just as hype of a party, for four hundred bones. And miraculously, he delivered.

Rap royalty showed up. Snoop, Busta, Missy, and Mya were all there. In the corner, a quiet man by the name of Jay-Z went unnoticed, Foxx says. That was also night he was introduced to the Neptunes. But it wasn’t until a man with a swollen jaw walked into the room that his music career took off. Enter Mr. Kanye West.

Foxx demanded an impromptu performance, said it was mandatory in his home. After hearing his voice, Foxx told West, “Young man, you are about to take off.” Foxx has an in-house studio, and part way through the evening, the two decided to do some recording. Foxx started to mix up rap and R&B, but West stopped him.

“Don’t do that. You’re going to kill it,” he said. Foxx went along with him, creating a smooth slow jam, but closed down the party thinking the track was whack.

Everyone else loved it. The collaboration, called Slow Jams, ended up on the College Drop Out, and was briefly the most popular song in America. It was Foxx’s first number one, and his breakout as a musician.

All for four hundred bones. Life's good.

*Jamie Foxx was in town to hang out his new BFF Drake, and to play a show at the Sound Academy as part of his "Blame It" tour. Blame it on the man: LG sponsored the show, and Foxx helped the brand launch its latest marketing initiative: the Life's Good FilmFest. Read my story on that, here.

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