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Enable or Disable Cookies. Enable All Save Settings. The second verse of "Gold Digger" was the first to be written, as West used to rap the verse in early while on tour promoting his debut album, The College Dropout. The first verse was made later in the year while West was on Usher's Evolution Tour. Lastly, the original third verse was taken from an unreleased song called "Drop Dead Gorgeous," which West had produced and rapped on for Murphy Lee of St.
About a year later, right before "Gold Digger" was set to be released as a single, West decided to write a different third verse and in a week the new song was recorded and mastered at Sony Music Studios in New York City. He did a slam poetry version of this track before it released too, in this version, it contains more shocking lines, the line "18 years, 18 years and on the 18th birthday he found out it wasn't his!
John Mayer said in an interview that Foxx was doing a "fake" sample, meaning it would sound like a sample, but it was actually someone singing in the studio. Foxx's vocals were recorded over many takes; in one version he sang from start to finish, but the track was retracted as his performance didn't coincide well with the song's instrumentation. After recording another version, Foxx decided to re-record it once more as he felt it contained too many explicit lyrics.
Once the track was finally in place, it was layered with additional instruments provided by American film score composer Jon Brion and individually selected by West. By the end of their very first studio session together, the pair had completed the basic tracks for the final version of "Gold Digger". The single broke a record for the most digital downloads in a week, selling over 80,, and at the time was also the fastest-selling digital download of all time; both records have since been broken.
It was 's second-longest running number one on the Billboard Hot As of January , the song has sold over 3,, copies in the United States. In , The song was ranked 63 on the Top Billboard Hot Songs of all time, as part of Billboard's celebration of the 60th anniversary.
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