Twista has celebrated yet another milestone, as his classic “Slow Jamz” track has finally achieved the platinum certification it has long deserved.
Coming just a few days after celebrating its 20th anniversary, “Slow Jamz” was officially certified platinum by the RIAA on Thursday (January 25). On the same day, both the “Overnight Celebrity” single and the Kamikaze album were also certified double platinum. The album previously earned a platinum certification all the way back in 2004.
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Originally released on November 10, 2003, “Slow Jamz” featured Kanye West and Jamie Foxx and eventually climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, making it the first No. 1 track for Twista, Foxx, and West. It also received a Grammy nomination in 2005 for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, but it lost to “Numb/Encore” by Linkin Park feat. JAY-Z.
Check out the certification, and the video for the track, below.
Twista's "Slow Jamz" receives platinum certification just days after 20 year anniversary https://t.co/52WCdDsvQrpic.twitter.com/iBDCYs9DVP
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Twista has been a staple within the Hip Hop community for the best part of 35 years.
Speeding out the gate in the early ’90s with his mesmerizing, rapid-fire flow — which in 1992 earned him the title of World’s Fastest Rapper, according to Guinness World Records — he took the underground by storm, before kicking things into overdrive thanks to his show-stealing guest verse on Do Or Die‘s 1996 Rap-A-Lot Records classic “Po Pimp.”
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This breakthrough set the scene for the success that would come with the Chicago rapper’s platinum-selling third studio album, Adrenaline Rush.
By his own admission, the 1997 LP established him as “a real rapper” and helped validate rappers from his hometown. “It meant you had to accept that artists from Chicago could spit,” he told HipHopDX.
But despite the accolades that came at the hands of Adrenaline Rush, it was his 2004 album, Kamikaze, that catapulted Twista into a whole other stratosphere — and probably tax bracket, too.
Arriving on the heels of several high-profile features, including tracks with JAY-Z, Usher, Ludacris, Diddy, Trick Daddy and Lil Kim, the Atlantic Records release solidified the Speedknot Mobsta as a bonafide commercial star — and gave him his very first No. 1 album.
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A treasure trove of hits, the 16-track project — which has just been certified double platinum by the RIAA — includes the anthems “Overnight Celebrity,” “So Sexy,” “Hope,” “Sunshine,” and, of course, the game-changing No.1 smash “Slow Jamz” featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx — which can also be found on Ye’s groundbreaking debut album, The College Dropout.
