Today we throw back to the week of January 31, 2004, when Outkast continued to have a stranglehold on the top two spots of the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Hey Ya!‘ and ‘The Way You Move.’ At #3 was another holdover, Alicia Keys’ ‘You Don’t Know My Name.’

In the #4 spot that week was ‘Slow Jamz,’ a collaboration between rapper Twista, actor/singer Jamie Foxx, and a relative newcomer named Kanye West. West produced the track and co-wrote it with Twista, with songwriting credit also going to Hal David and Burt Bacharach due to its use of a sample of Dionne Warwick singing ‘A House is Not a Home.’

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