Before Will Smith expanded into acting on large and small screens, he played rapper to Jazzy Jeff's scratcher in a series of semi-novelty radio and video smashes. A teenager empathizing with the peer group his records were aimed at, the Fresh Prince communicated ground-level dispatches on home life ("Parents Just Don't Understand"), would-be romance ("Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble") and Walter Mitty-style flights of fancy ("I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson"). Movie stardom led Smith to put the mic down until the recent Big Willie Style; the success of that disc makes this the right time to revisit his early work, which shares space here with the newer "Men in Black" and "Just Cruisin'." Is it jiggy? Yeah, pretty jiggy. –Rickey Wright
曲目列表:
01. Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble
02. Men In Black (From Men In Black Soundtrack)
03. Summertime
04. Parents Just Don't Understand
05. Boom! Shake the Room
06. Just Cruisin'
07. Ring My Bell (Mr. Lee's Radio Mix)
08. Brand New Funk
09. Lovely Daze
10. The Fresh Prince of Bel
11. A Nightmare on My Street
12. A Touch of Jazz
13. I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson
14. The Magnificent Jazzy Jeff
15. I'm Looking For The One (To Be With Me)
16. You Saw My Blinker
17. Summertime '98
18. 1998