Jamie Foxx on defending Chris Brown and counseling Kanye
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather duked it out in Las Vegas for 12 boring rounds a couple weeks ago, but it was Jamie Foxx who took the biggest beating of the night.
Battling technical difficulties, the actor/singer delivered a woefully off-key rendition of the “The Star-Spangled Banner” — and found himself the butt of social-media jibes.
“I’m a comedian, so I gotta appreciate some of the funny stuff,” Foxx sportingly tells The Post.
“Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses,” out Monday, should set the record straight (even if he won’t address rumors of a romantic relationship with Katie Holmes).
Featuring production work from the likes of Pharrell Williams and guest appearances from Wale and Chris Brown, it’s a sexy, steamy R&B album.
In a candid chat, he tells The Post about creating bedroom vibes, advising Chris Brown and why Kanye is a typical Gemini.
Judging by the vibe of this album, it sounds like you’ve been having some very good sex lately.
Well…music can either be about yourself — like a personal testimony — or it can be for the person who is trying to get the mood going. R&B music is either for the bedroom or the dance floor.
The song “Like a Drum” [featuring Wale], for example — that’s something you should play around someone you trust, because it’ll get you in the mood!
On the last album, I think I missed that.
We’re saving it for one day when we figure out what the progression of [2005’s hit collaboration] “Gold Digger” would be. You still hear that at every bar mitzvah, every wedding, every anything — that record still makes them go crazy.
Do you offer him counsel too?
I remember taking Kanye onstage when he was still a pup and he was afraid of performing in front of people. That’s my dude. If he ever needed something at any time in his life, I would drop what I was doing to make sure he got it. He’s head and shoulders above all of us. And he’s a Gemini, like Prince. You can’t keep him in a box. Not only does Kanye color outside the lines, he makes his own lines.
Do you feel like you were harshly treated after your performance of the “Star-Spangled Banner” at the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight?
That’s the world we live in. I had to listen to the organ through the speakers in the arena, which had a different flow, and people there were going crazy. I saw Denzel [Washington] afterward and he said, “Oh my n—a, you did that!”
But when I heard it played back on TV, I knew I was off. You can’t be mad at people tripping on social media. But when it comes to my singing, catch the album and see what it really is!
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