Thursday, September 10, 2009

A remix was made featuring Jay-Z

A remix was made featuring Jay-Z. It was titled "Gold Digger (Jay-Z Remix) featuring Jamie Foxx." It had the same beat and still had Jamie Foxx in the background and Kanye West on the first verse, but it switches to Jay-Z on the second. In 2006 a drum and bass remix was released by High Contrast.
In 2005 American DJ and Producer Diplo remixed the track, he edited the songs chorus to resemble the voice of Ray Charles. The electronic track was titled "Gold Digger (Diplo Mix)" and was never officially released.
A politically charged mash-up of the song titled "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" circulated following Hurricane Katrina, incorporating audio of Kanye West's own assertion that "George Bush doesn't care about black people" on a televised benefit concert.[1] The song criticized George W. Bush for his slow reaction to the plight of New Orleans. Titled simply "George Bush Don't Like Black People" and written by Houston hip-hop duo The Legendary K.O. also known as K-Otix,kanye west shoes, the single became widespread on the Internet for several weeks after the catastrophe, in some cases backing video mash-ups with photo montages from the hurricane.
The refrain of the song asserts that "George Bush ain't a gold digger, but he ain't messin with no broke niggas", and implores, "come down, Bush, come on, come down" to New Orleans. Similar themes, including the characterization of black victims of the hurricane as looters, were covered by Public Enemy in a contemporaneous single,air jordans, "Hell No We Ain't All Right!"
Welsh indie rock band The Automatic recorded a cover version of the song, which features on Radio 1's Live Lounge CD, as well as later being featured on their final single Raoul.During Leeds Festival 2006 they performed it live with Adequate Seven and the lead singer and saxophonist of Capdown. They also performed it live at the 2007 Reading festival, with fellow Welshmen, Goldie Lookin' Chain and at the 2007 Get Loaded In The Park. At the Newquay Boardmasters Festival in 2006, they performed it live with The Mystery Jets, Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly and My Elvis Blackout.
All Time Low has covered "Gold Digger" in the past.
The song was also later sung by the Oceanian Hip-Hop duo Noozfa & Izzei, and they made a crunk remix featuring White Dawg, and Lil' Jon. In addition, it was also sung in Kingston, Jamaica by various other artists like Lil' Bow Wow, C-Murder and Beenie Man.
"Gold Digger", done in a polka beat, is the last segment of "Polkarama!", the polka medley on "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood. This version substitutes a second "broke" instead of "nigga", like the edited music video.
English solo artist Dear Landlord also performed an acoustic version of "Gold Digger".
Vitamin String Quartet recorded a string quartet version of the song for one of their Unstrung albums.
Comedian Carlos Mencia created a version of this song for a sketch on his show Mind of Mencia also featuring fellow comedian Aries Spears playing Jamie Foxx's role.
Maria Kanellis used Gold Digger as her theme in OVW
In the episode "Showmance" of Glee, the cast of Glee covered the song.

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