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Along with fellow musicians D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell has been credited with helping to shape what has been termed the 'neo soul' movement that rose to prominence during the late s. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti. After receiving a low-cost Casio keyboard from a friend, the Brooklyn, New York-native began composing music at age Band and Rose Royce, Maxwell began to teach himself to play a variety of instruments.

Maxwell was able to gain access to a track recording studio and started to record songs for a demo tape, which he circulated among his friends. He adopted his middle name as a moniker out of respect for his family's privacy.

Initially, the album was slow to obtain commercial interest. The album spawned four singles. The first single released, ' Peaking at number 79, the single spent 12 weeks on the chart. It was 's second-longest running number one on the Billboard Hot behind 'We Belong Together' by Mariah Carey and is the joint sixth longest ever at ten weeks. However, he had actually constructed the beat of the song long before the movie was even developed.

Not wanting to let it go to waste, West decided to keep the beat for himself and add lyrics expressed from a male's point-of-view. 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.

After recording another version, Foxx decided to re-record it once more as he felt it contained too many explicit lyrics. By the end of their very first studio session together, the pair had completed the basic tracks for the final version of 'Gold Digger'.

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