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Jamie Foxx

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“Very bold. But my grandmother raised those people in church. See, I was adopted at seven months, so she was much older. So all of the kids over there, and it was, like I said, it was only a few families that lived in Terrell. So all of the kids that grew up, or all of the grown-ups that were there, she”
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“She said, You have to open the umbrella all the way through. So God's children can stand on it because no one here did not get made by anybody else or anything else but God. So that was my grandmother”
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“Sits down. He goes to another subject. Eventually he leaves the church. But I found that very interesting. At that time, I didn't know what that meant until I got to be about AJ. What was you talking about? She says, yeah, it's true. She says, you know, I've had this nursery school. I see the difference in the kids. And so therefore, I would have these kids come to me after they graduated from high school, going to college, or tried to have a family, although they were living with this. So she was a type of woman who had natural intelligence. I said, well, granny, well, what does it say about religion? Doesn't it say that it's wrong? You know, being a, you know, a kid from Texas is a natural question. She says, you know when I think about it, she said, you have to open up the umbrella of religion. I said, what do you mean? She said, if you only open up the umbrella halfway, only a few people can stand under it.”
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“The whole church style. What's that, Miss Taylor? You stopped that. Now her words, what she said next was very interesting. Let me tell you something. I've had this nursery school for 30 years, and I want to let all y'all know that God makes sissies too. The whole place went, what? She said, These little boys that I've watched since they could walk. They play by different music. And you stop that because you're making it hard for them. Navigate”
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“My grandmother taught me confidence as well. My grandmother was very confident person and very smart. How would you say just naturally intelligent? She was a Taurus. You know what I'm saying? Natural. It's like it wasn't something that was super educated or anything like that. I'll give you a hint of my grandmother. I'm ten years old, maybe. I think I'm in the fifth grade, 76. President Carter. The preacher started preaching about homosexuality. I don't know what it is. I'm 10 or 8 or whatever. So he's saying God made Adam and Eve. God didn't make Adam and Steve. Some people like, you know, it's southern. It's Texas. Amen. My grandmother stood up and said, you stop that.”
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“And studying Texas history is interesting. Like, if you study Texas history, if it didn't happen in Texas. didn't happen so when you look at like like this is just a sidebar but when you think about politics and what people know and don't know in politics and what they know about across the sea or what they know about even on the next block or what they know about what's different in texas from new york the reason their politics is so interesting is because the people don't necessarily have educations of other people which is why i think that once we start opening up A little more and traveling a little more because what is it? Less than how many percent of Americans have passports and things like that?”
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“Man, it set me on a, like I said, a crazy, wonderful journey. And so the music was first, you know, and my college was interesting. I didn't know anything about Jewish, Palestinian. I had no idea. I was at the student center and there was this argument going on. So what are you talking about? Oh, my brother, my friend, they're talking about the Gaza Strip. I said, the fuck is that? And he said, no, the Jewish occupation, the this, the that. And I got a quick history lesson on that. I got a quick history lesson on people from Argentina. Or I would see a person who looked black and I'd be like, hey, what's up, brother? I'd be like, oh, shit, where are you from? I'm from Paris. I was like, the fuck, they got black. So that music gave me not only an opportunity to share, but opportunity to be educated about other people because we studied Texas history.”
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“I did. I changed my major. Well, I changed the college that I was going to go to. I was going to go to another college in Texas and study music. Instead, I came to California, San Diego to study music at international university. And what was interesting about that was that being in Texas, it was black, whites of Mexicans. When I got to international university, it was 81 different countries represented at that school, all connected by music and other things. Music and sports. And the music arena at that time was high-end, strict child prodigies from Japan, child prodigies from China. I had a Russian music teacher and I had a Yugoslavian music theory teacher. So it was really across the tracks. But because of that, because of Estelle Tally and Mark Tally, you know, picking me up every weekend to go play music.”
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“Yeah. And they look and they go, they immediately change. Wow, man, that's good. You know any other songs? And I sat and I did about maybe like a sixth song set. And I saw what my grandmother talked about. That music cracked them in half. They saw a different me. And then afterwards, he gave me a hundred bucks. And I'm like, shit, call me nigga every day. I got $100. I'm rich. And what was interesting was, I went to give him the jacket back. He's like, No, I can't wear the jacket. So it was still a little bit of residue left over. But I saw what the music did and I remember when my... My boy show back up. I said, listen, It was a cool gig. We got paid. I said, but I got to get out of here. I said, because I'm too smart for this. I need to go elsewhere.”
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“And this was a song in that song. Chestnut roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Take care. Speaking song by a queer Anyway, so as I'm singing, I remember watching those white guys, older men, some of them faculty at my school, that had just said something, you know, probably not, I don't think it was that they meant harm, harm, but it was”
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“So he gives me a Brooks Brothers jacket that had the patches on the elbows. I'm like, oh shit, high fallen. So now I'm really playing. You know what I'm getting? But as I'm playing, they were doing the grown-ups there. We're doing racially misunderstanding jokes, I'll say it like that. And my grandmother taught me something at that time. She said, when you're in a setting like that, there's a word I want you to remember. It's called furniture. I said, what's that? She said, you're part of the furniture. So you don't comment on what's being said. You play. That's what you're there for. You let these people enjoy there. And the lady of the house felt bad. She said, I just want to apologize to you for what they're saying. I said, no problem. She said, can you sing something for us? And I was like, sure, I could sing so for us.”
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“So we go into this room, which looks like a bedroom, and I'm looking like, why the fuck does he have clothes hanging up in his bedroom? But it was a walk-in closet. I've never seen no shit like that. Oh man, we make a split level condo out of this shit.”
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“And we show up. It's two little black kids on the white side of town. And when he opens his door and he sees these two little black kids, he says, what's going on here? I said, well, I'm here to play for your Christmas part shirt. Then why are two of you here at the same time? I said, well, I don't have a license. He drove me. Is there a problem? Yeah, there's a problem. I can't have two niggers in my house at the same time. And I was like, well, you know, and I've been sort of used to the racial misunderstandings. And I said, well, is there any way he could wait outside or wait? And he can't wait on the street. Starts at 6.30. Now, you got to make your mind up, man. So I said, I told my boy, I said, let's just come get me at 8.30, which was pretty late, you know, for kids at that time, you know. So I go in. He says, where's your tuxedo? I said, well, he didn't tell me to have a tuxedo.”
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“That's real money at $13, 14. My grandmother would take the money, though. And give me this money. So, right up, what are you doing with my money? Shit, you ain't paying no rent. You ain't got to give me this money. So, but I remember at that time being armed with just my music and there was a Christmas party that I was supposed to play for, myself and my best friend who was 17. I was 16 at the time. And so here's a little bit of the racial misunderstanding, shall we say. I went to play for the guys Christmas time.”
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“Yeah, I make like, man, I get like $10,000, $15. You know what I'm saying? At that time, it was like, and I played for the church. So playing for the church, I would make like $75 a week. So if you count that up, that's like $300 a month.”
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“When I would play, you know, a lot of that broke up. I remember even being armed with just my music in sort of that racial setting sometimes. Like there was a time when there was a Christmas party.”
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“Here's a lady with an eighth grade education. She had her own business for 30 years. She had her own nursery school business. She says, when I say across the tracks, I don't just mean interrelated those people over there. I mean the metaphoric, like across the track like meaning everywhere in the world. So she said music connects you to the whole world. In doing that, I would connect with people on the other side of tracks who, you know, in a southern city, Ontario, you know, we were a little behind the curl when it came to race relations. Let's just say it that way without, you know, I don't want to demonize my hometown, but there was that who's a little black kid and my grandmother be like, don't, you know, play.”
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“Classical piano, a lady by the name of Lanita Hodge taught me how to play classical piano. And I literally would go on the other side of the tracks and, you know, and start playing for wine and cheese parties and things like that. But my grandmother took it a step further too because she was able to see the future.”
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“No, we're talking terrell, Texas. I love my city. My city was dope because it was only 12,000 people. So it was like literally like 12 or 15 families. So we all knew each other. But you know, for a little boy playing at that time, you know, the kids didn't understand, yo, man, why you doing that? My grandma want me to do this. So sometimes I would be belligerent and be like, why do you want me to do this? She says, the reason I want you to learn classical piano is because I want you to be able to go across the tracks and play your music. For people listening across the tracks or on the other side of the tracks for a southern city was the tracks in a southern city separates the city. One side is black, the other side is white. So in our city, the south side, the south side of town was where all the black folk live. The north side of town was where the white folks lived. So she says, I want you to be able to go on the white side of town and play classical music. So she taught me how to play.”
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“Music did. Music did. When I was a kid, my grandmother made sure that I took piano lessons. And you know, that's tough for a little boy in Texas. You know, playing Furry Lise and Chopin and Mozart and”
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“Walks out onto the stage and the brother that was next to me was like, yo, Fox man, who the fuck is this dude right here, man? With the red hair and shit in the fucking ukulele. I said, man, his name is Ed Sharon. Let's see what he does. But then 12 minutes, he got standing in ovation. from that crowd. And I said, bro, you're on your way. So this studio has, like I said, a lot of history and it has that magic to it as well.”
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“I mean, I had Miranda Lambert one night. I had Stevie Wonder on stage. I had Babyface. I said, so this is the real shit you're talking about. You know, you can come here. I don't care about the London and the accent. Got to really come with it. I think I'll be okay. I said, all right. So taking to my live night, 800 people there. People's playing, black folks sweating and just getting it. You know what I'm saying? I mean, people singing and, you know, they were tear American Idol up. You know what I'm saying? These people don't necessarily haven't necessarily made it. So all of a sudden they're Sharon gets up with a ukulele.”
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“So, this studio has that essence to it that you just, you don't throw that away. And just the building itself, Natasha Bettingfield's been here and she's cut, Kelly Rowland's been here, she's cut, the game has been here, he's cut right here on this floor. And I'm sure for you guys listening, I'm pointing to the floor, to the carpet, a young man by the name of Ed Sherring slept on this carpet for like six weeks trying to get his music career going. He came from over from London. He heard about a live show that I do in LA. So, really, want to do your live share if it's possible because I have some music that I love and hear this kid with this red hair. I'm like, man, you do my live show. And it's mostly black. You know what I'm saying? But it's really music people, like really hardcore music people. They're very finicky. You know, people that have played for Stevie Wonder. People will come there to...”
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“Strip club, we did the East Coast run. So we're going to break the record in the East Coast. So we went to the strip. We went to New York. My man Peckas took us around. And I would go into the club and use my comedic, you know, vernacular to get the song off. I said, fellas, you ever been at the club, you meet a girl, you've been drinking, you think she looked like Hadley Berry, you get her back home, she looks like Halley Scary, you know what you got to do? Blame it on the goose. Gosh feeling loose. Blame it on the stop the record. Ladies, you ever meet a guy, you get back to the house with him and you've been drinking too much and you say, I usually don't do this, but you do it anyway. You got to blame it on the So we took that and we went all the way down from New York all the way down to Miami. This is like 2008. And then the song took off. And so long story, longer, blame it on alcohol was done here, slow jams was done.”
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“RB roots because it was out of tune and everything like that, but we wanted to sing it exactly like the demo so we wouldn't lose the essence of it. I don't want to be like blame it on the alcohol, you know, some corny shit. So we did that and then we went from every the way we broke that record is that we went from every club, we went to the strip clubs first.”
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“And then as we started getting into music, there was a song that Breonna brought in and he would play these, Breon would call me. Like, he said, you want to be in the music business? It's like, you know, two or three in the morning. He called me, says, you want to be in the music business? I said, yeah. He said, and wake your ass up. I said, what? He said, I got this song you got to hear. So I drove all the way from my house in the valley to this little studio. He said, so you ready, motherfucker? Are you ready? And Breonna always say this everything three times. Are you ready, motherfucker? Are you ready? Are you ready? I said, yeah, yeah, man. Play this shit. So he plays it. And the song was blame it on the goose, gotchel and loose, blame it on the I stopped it. I said, listen. First of all, please tell me that's my song. He said, yeah, it's your song, but you got to record it right now because a lot of people are listening to this song and they don't know if it's a hit or not. He said, but I know it's a hit. We did blame it on the alcohol. That night, I sung it exactly like the record, which goes way in contrast to my...”
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“Cool guy, great rapper. I don't think it's going to happen for him. So I'll go off and do a bad movie. And when I come back, my boy says, remember that song you said was whack? I said, yes, number one in the country, you, Kanye, and Twister, Kanye's first record. And it was actually Twister's record. I said, oh, so I'm at a club. He said, you don't believe me? I said, no, I'm where Miami. They played it. Everybody ran to the dance floor. I grabbed the mic. That's me. That's my song. I'm on that, you know. And so the music, that's how I got into the music. Now, the reason the story is significant is because the same brains that we use, that same hard drive that we use, I brought it to this studio. Oh no. So that hard drive is magical because we also...”
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“See, I'm an RB motherfucker. See, I got to give them the shit. I got to put the shit on it. And he goes, really politely. He says, hits the button. He says, don't do that. I said, but you don't know what you're talking about. That ain't how the song go. You got to sing it this way. So, in my mind, I'm thinking, you know what, I'm going to sing the shit. This song is whack. It's not going to make it. Because I'm thinking old school R&B. But he was teaching me the simplicity of hip-hop, which I didn't know. I was like, what?”
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“It was compact, the sound was toasty. I had engineers from all over the city dial it in so that when real artists come, they don't think that, oh, this is just comedian fucking around some real shit. So we go in and Kanye, you know, quiet, but at the same time he knew what he wanted. He says, okay, the song goes like this. She says she wants a Marvin Gay, some Luther Van Jose, a little, I said, I got it. And I started going, she say she wants some get. And he said, what the fuck are you doing? I said, well, see, young man, you don't know nothing about R&B.”
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“He says, I want to record it. I said, Well, you happen to be in luck because I got a studio in the back. So we go in the back and my studio at that time, I call it the Porsche. It was a lot smaller than this. It was really like, it was like a leer jet.”
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“And I say, yo, yo, who's that? I said, yo, that's a new kid, Kanye Westie, coming on. I said, really? What he do? So he rapped. I said, well, shit, he got to perform that shit because everybody comes to my house. They got to perform. So I said, yo, man, they say you the shit. And he was really quiet. I said, man, let me hear you rap. You need your beats or whatever. He said, I don't need no beat. Freestyle. Blew every, I mean, chopped everybody's head. Just amazing. I said, dude, I don't know where you come from, but you are going to be one of the biggest stars ever. And he says, I actually have a song for you. I said, moi? Me a song? Like, what you mean? He said, I got this song.”
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“So here's how I make the music play though. As Puff is there, I get people to leave me different bits of music or whatever like because I'm trying to get into the music thing. So I turn that into a show in a sense to where I would just have different people I would toast and try to, you know, get my music on. So one day my boy Breon brings in this kid. He has a backpack on. His jaw's a little busted. His name is Kanye West.”
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“No one's talking to. He got a little green jump jacket on. Guess who it was? Jay-Z. Nobody knew who he was. Jay-Z kid. I said, yeah, I know that dude. Missy Ellett has one room. Puff has the other room. Then I go to my garage. To grab some other drinks, and I see this tall dude and this little dude, and they're like, the little guy goes, Yo, B, it's like this all the time. I say, yeah, what do you mean? You know, the girls and karaoke. And I said, yeah, yeah, man, who are you? Oh, we're the Neptunes. My name is Pharrell. I said, yeah, man, I heard of you. Yeah, man. I like your shit. So that's how long ago this was.”
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“So he's admiring the, it's crazy. And everybody's in tune with him. And I'll explain to him. I said, Puff, let me explain to you who you are. I said, these are the people who not only live in LA, but I think I've found the right set of people who appreciate the art as well. Because what you do musically and what you're doing on the artistic side is blowing our minds as well. And I said, Therefore, look at the table. I only spent $400 on the table. There's Kentucky fried chicken. I just put it in a nice bowl. There's cola. I just put them in pictures. I said, so no more than $400, but people are here. I said, because here's the thing. A fitted baseball cap, New York, fitted. It's $58, maybe retail. I said, but puff on your hat, on your head is priceless. We just want to be around this fly shit, right? So we part in. Puff is partying. And there's a dude standing next, like on the wall.”
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“And so I hit him at 12 noon. I said, yo, where you at? We're at a fevered pitch. It's gone awful here in my little house. And when he gets there, his mind is blown. And, you know, he shows up at the entourage. He was like, Gatsby. And he walked in and he says, Oh, that's the girl from that show. And that's the girl on the side. And I said, yeah, puff, we all live out here. So all the people you see in Hollywood, I know they're my friend. And so he's like, oh, shit. So the party's incredible. We're playing his music through my little sound speakers. Everybody's really toasting him. And I said, Puff, the people that are here are different in this, what the fuck? It's another fly. Hold on, stay right there.”
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“So I text, I said, listen, I'm puff is coming. And the people that I text were only cool people, like no guys that'll be hating, you know, girls are pretty. Not slutty, but not too tight. Know what I mean? It was just, it was just really.”
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“So I would get cue cards. And like I said, I would send it, you know, I had a list of about 800 people. I had 600 women because women at that time, this is like around 90, 91, women at that time loved to go to comedy clubs. So it was all the pretty girls, because pretty girls like to laugh. Eight, nine girls together. And Jamie, you're so crazy, so funny, whatever. And so I had 800 Sigmas, just 200 guys because they wanted to be where the girls were. So I would take that list and also say, okay, well, now I'm having a party here, here, here, whatever, whatever, if you want to come by. So that same list along with the other people that I met as I started to grow in the business, I text and said, I'm throwing a party for puff. And this one Puff had. We ain't going nowhere was out. And it was popping. I mean, even the LA dudes was like, man, we don't want to fuck with this New York dude, but this shit is so the song is so hot.”
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“I have a list of people that since I first came to LA, the way I got into knowing everybody. I was the first social media guy without social media. I would go do a stand-up comedy routine of the club if they liked the routine. I had cue cards back in the day and would have people sign cue cue cue cards.”
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“And he actually came to LA a few weeks later. And it was a Saturday. He said, yo, Playboy, make that shit happen. So he calls me like 9 in the morning, right In the morning, I said, no problem. So I go into my cell phones.”
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“But I will follow him around, and then one day we had this party in Philly that I recorded for him, and he said, Yo, money, you know how much this party costs, what? I said, it costs a million dollars for this party. I said, you paid $1 million for a party? He was like, yeah, that's how we. I told Porph, I challenged him. I said, I'll throw you a party at my house in LA, which is way smaller than this situation, but I'll spend maybe $400 and it will rival this party, not in the scale of it, but in the type of people that are there. And he was a little upset. You know, Puff is a, you know, he always likes to win. He's a competitive guy. He said, you must out your motherfucking mind. Playboy, you don't understand the essence of this part. I was like, all right, I get it.”
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“He knew me. He knew me, the kid that was on in Living Color or whatever, like that, but it wasn't elevated. And plus, he was having parties that were like huge, like, nobody's getting it. And so he saw me with the cameras, like, yo, let him through. And it was back in the day was like the big cannon camera with the light and I had to change the battery. It wasn't like how today you just got your pocket. Your phone in your pocket. No, I had production.”
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“Yeah, because at that time, I wasn't Jamie Fox. I was just Jamie Fox. And so I couldn't get into all the parties because Puff was so big. He come to LA. We couldn't even get in our own clubs. But I took a town car everywhere he went, jumped out of the town car one day, and said, yo, Puff, can I record?”
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“I would follow puffy combs around back in the day when it was just like puff and J-Lo and back at that time no one could get into his parties but the reason he would let me in because I would carry a camera with me everywhere I go but it was back in the day like you know the big cannon cameras”
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“In the studio, they would record we'd have the party going. I said, Hey, man, it's going to back. You know while we were drinking and whatever, like that, and go and I said, hey, man, just leave me a little something because I was trying to get into music. And then I met this kid named Breonna Prescott. Basketball. We played basketball and all this kind of stuff. Pick up basketball games. And he said, hey man, why don't you ever do music? I said, man, I'm trying to get into that shit, man. I just, you know, I don't know how to get into it. And then one day I throw this big party. And it was a... The party was crazy because as I digress a little bit.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we'll do pickup out of you. And most any actor or actress will tell you ADR is the worst thing in the world to do. So to be able to have here, have it here, I could do my ADR here, I could do my animation here and things like that. And so just now the studio itself, the actual brains of the studio, it's an old hard drive. And the reason I kept that old hard drive, I used to have a smaller studio in a smaller house. But when I had that small studio, I wasn't in music. I built the studio in my smaller house because I wanted to get in music, but I was from comedy and from acting and things like that. But what I would do is I would throw parties and I would invite musical people over at the party. And when they would come over, like if I had puff or snoop or back at that time, John B or Brian McKnight, I would say, hey, man, you know, I'm trying to get into music. Would you leave me some music in my life?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It had like an old basement carpet and a couch and like a metallic poster. And I was like, what would I do with this? Because I needed a place to work and do music. What's interesting now, I got a guy to change the whole place over. And as you can see, we'll take pictures and show it for you guys that are listening. But they did a very good job in it. But if you look over here, this is where we do the recording. There's a booth, which is normal, but also the recording on both sides. We're able to do animation. We're able to do, if we want to do ADR for movies.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we keep a grand piano around just to make sure that we don't lose, you know, we don't get too techie. But what's interesting about it is it's actually electric, but it's an electric grand piano, so we still have the wood to give you that warm sound, which I think it makes a lot of sense because as music starts to progress, because of the way we record now, sometimes you lose a little bit of the heart of it. So I think within the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years, it'll be this type of music, the real sound will, you know, remain, if that makes sense. Now the studio, when I first got the house, looked like an old porn set.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To be honest with you, a lot of magic happens here for the people that are listening, we are actually in my studio, my home studio. Now, you know, studios, we're talking about tech world. Studios, because of the tech world, a lot of them dissipated in closed doors. Because if you think about when LMFAO came around, they didn't need studios. They did all of their music on a laptop, flying from here to Germany or whatever like that and just dumped it on and just pressed up the CD or the iTunes. So studios almost become an obsolete. But there's something very interesting about this studio. First, just for people that are listening, this studio, and I'll describe it, it's sort of plush. The carpet is great. We're going to sit next to a grand piano. You hear the grand piano, which a lot of places.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT