Greatest Hits (CD)

Will Smith first reached a wide audience as the rapping half of the poppy, late-1980s hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. He soon crossed over to TV, with a starring role in the popular comedy series THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR. His subsequent path to movie stardom in the '90s (INDEPENDENCE DAY, MEN IN BLACK, etc.) seems inevitable in retrospect, but Smith never forgot his rap roots, continuing his recording career as a solo artist and notching up even more chart hits in the late '90s and into the next decade.

• Category:  Music  »  Rap & Hip Hop  »  Rap & Hip Hop/General
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• Release Date: November 26, 2002
• Label: Columbia (USA)
• UPC: 696998707627
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106503846
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #10361 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #209 in Rap & Hip Hop (See Top 100 Rap & Hip Hop Bestsellers)
• #126 in Rap & Hip Hop/General (See Top 100 Rap & Hip Hop/General Bestsellers)

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Personnel includes: Will Smith, Jada, K-Ci, Dru Hill, Kool Mo Dee, Christina Vidal, Tra-Knox.

Producers inlcude: Jazzy Jeff, Fresh Prince, Hula, Fingers, L.E.S.

Recorded between 1988 & 2002.

When Will Smith first entered the public consciousness in the '80s as half of DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, few could imagine that a decade later he'd be one of the biggest stars on the planet, both in film and music. His GREATEST HITS collection appropriately begins with the good-time work of the aforementioned hip-hop duo (the teen plaints "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble" and "Parents Just Don't Understand"), but in due course gets around to the theme from Smith's successful TV comedy THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR and his later solo work.

Smith's film successes are represented by the soundtrack cuts "Men in Black" and "Wild Wild West," while the balance of the tunes show why he was the hottest rap-pop crossover act of the '90s. "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" was quickly adapted into the public consciousness and vocabulary, and "Miami" is as effective a summer-fun tune as one could want. Smith's iconic stature is all spelled out across the 15 cuts that make up GREATEST HITS, a journey recommended to both fans and first-timers.

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