I know it featured Jamie Foxx.. but It only sounds like he is in the intro (and video)

but isnt that ray charles as the song starts? the hook? I mean the singing goes like an octave lower.. and it sounds nothing like jamie, more like ray.


someone help me out

I heard it is Jamie Foxx imitating Ray throughout the whole song

ThreadCula said:

Damn.. he did a good job..


or whoever mixed the song did a good job

ThreadCula said:

yeah thats what i heard too, maybe this is the way Kanye is trying to get out of using samples, by using artists to resing hooks and chorus's written by legends while adding words to them....

Actually, it's Jamie only in the intro. The rest is a sample of the real Ray Charles ("I Got A Woman").

OdysseyMiles said:

It is Jaime re- siging the hook - It has jaime under vocals in the liner notes - but they still have to give the "sample" credit to Ray Charles

Your Avie is funny-- I love that movie!

Sdldawn said:

I agree, he sounds exactly like him. I wonder how Ray Charles would feel about that? I can't decide whether it's right or not. I wonder if he were alive if he would have sung the hook himself.

dancerella said:

I don't think Ray Charels would've minded because he was very fond on Jaimie - they spent alot of time together before he died- with Jaimie studying his character that movie had been in the making for 5 years
[Edited 8/29/05 8:51am]