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" Overnight Celebrity " - Twista from the album Kamikaze (2004) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (five weeks) Weeks in the Top-40: 18 Today's song comes from rapper Twista, who scored a #1 hit on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in the beginning of 2004 with " Slow Jams ", which featured and up and coming Kanye West. West also co-wrote and produced Twista's follow-up single, "Overnight Celebrity", and performed on the track although not appearing on the single label as a feature (but he initially was on the Billboard chart listing). The "Celebrity" in this case is a woman Twista's trying to get the mack on, promising her fame and riches by getting with him. The production from West gives the chipmunked treatment to slow jam album cut " Cause I Love You " from Lenny Williams of Tower Of Power which seems to relay a gravitas that the verses definitely don't reflect. But the violin from Israeli-American Miri Ben-Ari is a