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Intuition (Jamie Foxx album)

Intuition is the third studio album by American R&B singer Jamie Foxx. It was released on December 16, 2008, by J Records.[1]

For other uses, see Intuition (disambiguation).

Intuition

December 16, 2008 (2008-12-16)

2007–08

The album features several guest artists, including T.I., Lil Wayne, Ne-Yo, Kanye West, Fabolous, T-Pain, The-Dream, Lil' Kim, Timbaland and Marsha Ambrosius. The album debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 265,000 copies in the first week.[2] The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[3]

Singles[edit]

The album's lead single "Just Like Me" featuring T.I., was released on August 19, 2008. The song debuted at number 48 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, before it peaked at number 8.[5] It also peaked at number 49 on the Billboard 100.


The remix to Ne-Yo's "Miss Independent," titled "She Got Her Own" featuring Ne-Yo; along with an American rapper Fabolous, which was released as the album's second single on December 14, 2008.


The album's third single "Blame It" featuring T-Pain, was released on January 26, 2009. In its first week, "Just Like Me", "Blame It" and "She Got Her Own" were charted on the top-ten in the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at numbers 8, 1, and 2, respectively.


While on the Conan O'Brien show, Foxx performed the remix to "Digital Girl" featuring Canadian rapper Drake, during the interview with MTV News, as he stated; it will be his fourth single from Intuition.[6] The full studio version was leaked and officially released on June 19, 2009, which features guest appearances from Drake, adding Kanye West and The-Dream on this track.

Commercial performance[edit]

Intuition debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, selling 265,000 copies in the first week.[2] This became Foxx's second US top-ten album.[2] In its second week, the album dropped to number nine on the chart, selling an additional 105,000 copies.[18] In its third week, the album climbed to number eight on the chart, selling 45,000 more copies.[19] In its fourth week, the album remained at number eight on the chart, selling 34,000 copies, bringing its four-week total to 449,000 copies.[20] On May 12, 2009, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over one million copies in the United States.[3]

"Number One" contains a sample from "" performed by Beastie Boys

The New Style

"Digital Girl" contains re-sung lyrics from "" performed by T-Pain and Lil Wayne

Can't Believe It

"She Got Her Own" contains a sample from "My Baby Understands" performed by

Donna Summer

"I Don't Know" contains re-sung lyrics from "" performed by The Pharcyde, from which in turn samples the Quincy Jones version of "Summer in the City"

Passin' Me By

"I Don't Know" also contains a portion of the composition "" performed by Marvin Gaye

I Want You

Unless otherwise indicated, Information is based on the album's liner notes[25]

- lead vocals (All tracks), background vocals (2)

Jamie Foxx

Kory Aaron - mixing assistant (4, 8, 10–13)

- background vocals (2)

Jim Beanz

Andre Bowman - bass played by (10)

Demacio Castellon - audio mixing (2)

Kevin "KD" Davis - audio mixing (6)

- recording engineer (11), assistant engineer (9)

Doug Fenske

Jason Fleming - recording engineer

Chris Godbey - recording engineer, audio mixing (2)

- background vocals (8)

Noel Gourdin

Casey Graham - recording engineer

Mark Gray - instrumental recording engineer (12)

Jaymz Hardy-Martin III - vocal recording engineer

- background vocals (10), vocal recording engineer (1, 4, 10, 12–13)

Kuk Harrell

- background vocals, drum machine, instruments played by, recording engineer (5)

Christopher "Deep" Henderson

John Horesco IV - vocal recording engineer

Antonio Jimenez - recording engineer (6)

- mixing assistant (2)

Brandon Jones

- audio mixing (1, 3–5, 7-15)

Jaycen Joshua

Sean K - music programming (4, 10), instrumental recording engineer (12)

- additional vocals (9)

Rico Love

Phil Margaziotis - recording engineer (9)

Brandon R. Melanchon - background vocals (5)

Chris "Tek" O'Ryan - instrumental recording engineer (4, 12)

- audio mixing (1, 3–5, 7-15)

Dave Pensado

DeMonica Plummer - sample clearance agent

Orlando Rashid - recording engineer (15)

- musical arrangements, Fender Rhodes keyboard, drums, bass played by (8)

Salaam Remi

D. P. Samuels - mixing assistant (11)

Franklin Emmanuel Socorro - recording engineer (8)

Staybent Krunk-a-Delic - background vocals, additional keyboards (8)

- instruments performed by (14)

Tank

Brian "B-Luv" Thomas - instrumental recording engineer (4, 10, 13)

- recording engineer (additional on 1, instrumental on 4, 10, 13)

Pat Thrall

Randy Urbanski - mixing assistant (1, 3, 7, 9-10, 14–15)

Julian Vasquez - recording engineer (2)

- keyboards (10)

Wizard

Andrew Wright - recording engineer, audio mixing (3)

Andrew Wuepper - mixing assistant (1, 7, 9-10, 14–15)

- recording engineer (6)

Jordan "DJ Swivel" Young

Credits are adapted from Allmusic[8] and the album's Liner Notes.[25]