About This Album
Jeremih quickly rose to fame in 2009 with his Top Ten debut single "Birthday Sex," a lewd lullaby of sorts that sounded like nothing else at the time, optimizing the R&B artist's slinking vocals and explicit wordplay. The slow jam effectively launched the Chicago native's career, one that has been studded with additional and quite different Top Ten hits "Down on Me" and "Don't Tell 'Em," among several more gold and platinum singles. Jeremih (2009), All About You (2010), and Late Nights: The Album (2015), his first three LPs, were similarly awarded, while "Planez," off the latter, was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best R&B Performance. Since that run, Jeremih has partnered with Ty Dolla $ign for the duo album Mih-Ty (2018), issued a handful of headlining singles, and been a prolific featured collaborator, appearing on tracks spanning pop, rap, and numerous forms of club music well into the 2020s. Starting at the age of three with drums, Jeremih (Jeremy Philip Felton) learned to play several instruments during his childhood, continuing with percussion and keyboards. He performed in the marching band and jazz band in high school, graduated a year early, and briefly studied engineering before he opted to enter the music business program at Columbia College Chicago. While at Columbia, he performed at a campus talent show that emboldened him to pursue singing, a talent he hadn't taken seriously until that point. Jeremih struck up a partnership with fellow Columbia student and fledgling producer Mick Schultz, and worked on material that attracted a deal with Def Jam. Jeremih debuted in February 2009 with "Birthday Sex," a slow jam that topped Billboard's R&B/hip-hop chart and, more impressively, peaked at number four on the pop chart. Thanks to that multi-platinum hit, Jeremih, released that June with production handled entirely by Schultz, debuted at number six on the Billboard 200. The album yielded the singer's second platinum single, "Imma Star (Everywhere We Are)." A year later, Jeremih issued his fol
