It was a new sound - catchy, different, and fun. It's personally one of my favorite beats ever.
The best document of this period is "Slow Jamz," where Yeezy enlists the help of Twista to make arguably the greatest ladies' jam of all time. I LOVE that part of "Slow Jamz" so I found "A House is not a home", performed by Luther Vandross, on the internet and I was blown away!. Slow Jamz Lyrics as written by Hal David Burt Bacharach. Samples by music legends like Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan, Lauryn Hill and Marvin Gaye form the foundation of Kanye West's maiden album. Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, published by Famous Music Corp./Diplomat Music Corp./Largo Music, Inc. "Overnight Celebrity" is the second single from Twista's 2004 album Kamikaze. It was released in 2003, through Atlantic and Roc-A-Fella Records, as the lead single from Twista's fourth studio album Kamikaze (2004), and the second single from West's debut studio album The College Dropout (2004). Obviously, Twista's not breaking down any walls with his wordplay on Kamikaze, but along the way he kicks over a few garbage cans while letting Kanye West, Toxic and the rest of his production crew move some crowds and elevate their status, one slow jam at a time.Kamikaze is the fourth studio album by American rapper Twista.It was released on January 27, 2004, by Atlantic Records.The album reached the top of the US Billboard 200 chart in early 2004, after the success of its lead single, "Slow Jamz".It sold 312,000 units in its first week of sales, and received generally positive reviews from critics. The song, laced with a beat worthy of an NBA introduction ceremony, features strong verses from Freeway, Memphis Bleek and Young Chris, until Twista swoops in to smoke to whatever's left of the ominous beat. Kamikaze ends with one last Roc-A-Fella posse cut, "Art & Life". Dre-impersonation you'll hear this side of Scott Storch. "Drinks" compares fine ladies to- naturally- alcoholic beverages while Toxic, who produces nearly half the album, provides the best Dr. Good thing The Gap already raped the beauty of that song. On the strip-club anthem "Sunshine", Twista nearly pisses all over what little respect he's gathered to date, sampling Bill Withers' luminescent "Lovely Day". Thankfully, Cee-Lo's shimmering chorus saves this borderline piffle. Granted, any rap song that gives a hopeful shoutout to Christopher Reeve's ability to walk is going to seem strangely off-putting. Elsewhere, the vaguely uplifting (but ultimately perfunctory) "Hope" fills Twista's "sensitive thug" prerequisite. Bombastic strings, heart-rattling urgency, and Twista's sharpest punchlines make it the star of the record. Topics like these have been drained of what little juice they might have had by, among others, the nefarious Nelly.Īside from "Slow Jamz", Kanye's production appears twice more, on "One Last Time", and later, on "Overnight Celebrity", which outdoes his previous crate-digging by jacking Lenny Williams' 70s Motown hit "'Cause I Love You". Kelly event "So Sexy"), a sequel to a song no one's heard ("Still Feels So Good") and another about rims ("Like a 24", featuring T.I., who also has a single about rims in rotation right now- sadly, his are only 22's). And if Kamikaze isn't an absolute abomination, its scope quickly reveals itself as limited: three songs about female ass (including the hilarious "Badunkadunk" and the R.
While Twista could rely solely on his ridiculous verbal agility on posse cuts like Memphis Bleek's classic "Is That Your Bitch?", he hasn't got it in him to sustain an entire album. Unfortunately, based on the immediately quotable couplet, "Got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson/ Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson," Kanye outshines him completely. This aside, Twista (formerly Tung Twista) sports perhaps the most dexterous flow since mid-90s Busta, and on "Slow Jamz", he wraps his voice around a supremely accelerated Burt Bacharach-penned sample.