Ha-ha it's the WILL SMITH SINGLES POLL yeah-yeah

Boom!

"summertime". drums, please!

guys out hunting and girls doing likewise
honkin at the honey in front of you with the light eyes
she turn around to see what you beepin at
it's like the summer's a natural aphrodisiac
and with a pen and pad i compose this rhyme
to hit you and get you equipped for the summertime

yeah, this coulda been an interesting poll w/ just the solo years, but any poll (in July!) with "Summertime" in it is a no-brainer.

Summertime is probably the best song but I voted for Parents Just Don't Understand because I still know all the words by heart.

"All you rappers braggin' about who you put in a hearse do me a favor: write one verse without a curse."

memorized 22 years ago
xpost to myself

top 10:
Summertime
Brand New Funk
Nightmare On My Street
Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
Switch
Parents Just Don't Understand
Just The Two Of Us
Will 2K
Boom! Shake The Room
Wild Wild West

oh man, "Brand New Funk" no question

"Parents"

read last one as "party sharter"

is there a classicraptshirt website where I can get a GO SPEED RACER GO? voted miami as my #2 because having summertime here is cheating

there are some clunkers in here but the good singles are fucking amazing IMO

my top ten (unranked) is similar to some dude's only with "Miami" instead of "Just the Two of Us" (and MAYBE "Jazzy's Groove" instead of "Boom! Shake the Room")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERV8vEbAQG8

Boom over Jiggy.

2nd verse & dj breakdown of brand new funk is classic 4eva

parents just don't understand & nightmare on my street are jams from childhood to grave tbrr

i love the little dialogue btwn "touch of jazz" -> "dj premier in deep concentration" -> "summertime"

think getting jiggy with it is the only solo one i like a lot

"Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" is one of my favorite songs ever, no shame in my game.

Similarly without shame, my fav is "Miami"

Uh. And.

na na na na na na na

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA9-AJtUyXU

"Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" is one of my favorite songs ever, no shame in my game.

― The Reverend, Thursday, July 8, 2010 11:31 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

GOTTA
PRADA
BAG
WITH A LOTTA
STUFF IN IT

that's sort of the proto-"remote...........................control" in a way

i remember liking ring my bell but haven't heard it in years.

smith ruins ring my bell tbrr but if u like rap interpolations of anita ward u should love z-ro account of doing his recent time standing on his head while instructing the guards to "bring my mail"

everytime I see a cigar I think

one of the great lines in pop music -- 2-0-0-0, the Will 2 K / The new millennium, yo excuse me Willennium

This thread needs more discussion of WIKI-WIKI-WILD-WILD WEST

top 10:
Summertime
Brand New Funk
Nightmare On My Street
Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
Switch
Parents Just Don't Understand
Just The Two Of Us
Will 2K
Boom! Shake The Room
Wild Wild West

― the horribly overhyped frapfest known as Whiney (some dude), Thursday, July 8, 2010 8:07 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

switch is terrible!!! where is miami?

think it's in florida

BOOM

"Summertime," but those early singles are a hoot. My sis and I used to perform all the parts of "Girls Ain't Nothin' But Trouble."

Shit this is hard. Gotta be chosen from "Girls ain't Nothing But Trouble", "Parents", "Summertime", "Miami" or "Gettin' Jiggy".

Tbf the hook from "Gettin' Jiggy" started looping in my head the minute I saw this thread title.

girls ain't nothing but trouble is weird - he tries intensively to mack a chick, then "all of a sudden" she tries to kiss him, which repulses him. he shoves her away and she cries rape. the police come and he's arrested for assault. "so next time a girl gives you the play/ just remember my rhyme and get the hell away"

Think the point is he was 13.

I gotta study just to keep with the changing times
101 Dalmatians on your CD-ROM
See me – I'm
Trying to pretend I know
On my PC where that CD go

What is the video where he travels in time?

girls ain't nothing but trouble is weird - he tries intensively to mack a chick, then "all of a sudden" she tries to kiss him, which repulses him. he shoves her away and she cries rape. the police come and he's arrested for assault. "so next time a girl gives you the play/ just remember my rhyme and get the hell away"

― iSleighBellsTellem (zvookster), Thursday, 8 July 2010 19:42 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

She also robs him iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OODuEYaDt8

Well I'm abadass Cowboy livin' in the cowboy days
Wiggy wiggy scratch yo yo bang bang
Me and Artemis Clyde frog go save Salma Hayek from the big metal spider
A wiggy wiggy wig wiggy wiggy wig
Fresh cowboy from the west side
Wiggy wiggy scratch yo yo bang bang
Me and Artemis Clyde frog go save Salma frog polly prissy pants
Go down to, well... rumpletumpskin

This is one of the greatest runs of singles in the history of pop music.

Whoever was DJing before Kelis at Glastonbury made the inspired decision to play the theme to the Fresh Prince and literally the entire tent with 1000-odd people in it rapped along.

But yeah, Summertime, narrowly pushing out Boom Shake The Room.

I'm tempted toward Will 2K after hearing it so many times on that P2K thread.

iirc tom ewing said 'the millennium prayer' is the original mashup record

but 'wild wild west' from earlier that year has to be a contender

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Wild Wild West narrowly over Jiggy. Great stuff in here though. Did we do this one once before?

amazingly not so far as i can tell

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

"Wild Wild West" 5
"Miami" 5
"Boom! Shake the Room" 4
"Will 2K" 4

do not get the love for these

no will but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA36PT8OyfU shld not languish at 0 btw

"Boom! Shake The Room" is entertaining in a lol they tried to switch they style up way but yeah what kind of contrarian would actually vote for it

What no love for 'men in black'? The interpolation of George Michael's Fastlove was genius imho.

? thats 'forget me nots' by patrice rushen

I would have voted for "Then She Bit Me" if it was an option (not a single obv).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3DffFBkgLg

I keep hearing "Summertime" as "Fresh Prince does his best Rakim impression," which is clearly what he should aspire to more often...

Boom! Shake the Room was lolworthy in that it tried to be more gruff than his usual stuff. came across as phony, liked him better when he did stuff like "The One to Be with Me".

which is to say not much at all. though Miami and Summertime=awesome.

that wiki wiki wild west song

"Miami" is fucking great

haha this reminds me that the vintage sampler i bought recently came with a load of old floppies, one of which contained chopped up samples from "boom! shake the room"

what is it about 'the beat goes on' & 'hes the greatest dancer' samples that dont make ppl mad?? im including myself in here, for some reason this is way more forgiveable to me than the forget me nots & stevie wonder rips

"Yo Home To Bel Air" is missing here, that was a single too.

xp they aren't more forgivable bc of the samples inherently, but bc he used them for fun party songs instead of wack crosspromo movie theme songs

also, there might be an important distinction that he just used the beats and not the hooks, too

also this is secretly the best sample in "gettin jiggy wit it" (word to de la)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4fVN9NcM7M