DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Discography
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 DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh PrinceHomebase Release Date 1991 07 23 Label Jive Rating:  After the disappointingly uneven And in This Corner..., DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince restarted their commercial momentum with Homebase, which fitted Will Smith's rhymes with up-to-date, radio-friendly production and a much richer overall sound. For the first time, the album's key single wasn't a comic narrative: &"Summertime" was a warm, breezy reminiscence about growing up in Philadelphia and attending barbecues where the whole community showed up to see and be seen. It had all the good vibes of a typical Fresh Prince number, but it was clearly a more mature effort, and that's Homebase in a nutshell. The smoothed-out R&B background of &"Summertime" provides a template for the record's poppier moments, and there's a thumping new club influence on the dancefloor cuts. Lyrically, when he's not trying to move your butt, Smith paints himself as more of a ladies' man, in keeping with his new young-adult persona. If he's still more innocent than LL Cool J, he's throwing out all his best lines on the single &"Ring My Bell" and trying to play the field on &"A Dog Is a Dog." And there are a few story songs, like &"Who Stole the DJ" and &"You Saw My Blinker," that benefit from the fresher-sounding beats. While it doesn't have the youthful, old-school charm of He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper, Homebase is a successful reinvention that laid the groundwork for Smith's multimedia stardom as an adult. Steve Huey, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | I'm All That | Fresh Prince, Townes, Smith, James | 3:44 |
| 2 | Summertime | Fingers, Hala, Smith, Bell, Brown, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Mickens, Smith, Thomas, Westfield, Taylor | 4:30 |
| 3 | Things That U Do | Fresh Prince, King, Townes, Smith | 4:56 |
| 4 | This Boy Is Smooth | Fresh Prince, Smith, Townes | 4:58 |
| 5 | Ring My Bell | Fresh Prince, Ward, Townes, Smith | 4:44 |
| 6 | Dog Is a Dog | Fresh Prince, Hula [1], Clinton, Fingers, Spradley, Smith, Shider, Gambrell | 4:29 |
| 7 | Caught in the Middle (Love & Life) | Fresh Prince, King, Townes, Smith | 4:21 |
| 8 | Trapped on the Dance Floor | Crudup, El-Sid, Fresh Prince, Jazz Fresh, McCall, Townes, Smith | 5:19 |
| 9 | Who Stole the D.J. | Fresh Prince, Townes, Smith | 4:50 |
| 10 | You Saw My Blinker | Fresh Prince, Townes, Smith | 4:14 |
| 11 | Dumb Dancin' | Fresh Prince, Townes, Smith | 4:55 |
| 12 | Summertime (Reprise) | Fingers, Fres, Hula, Smith, Smith, Bell, Mickens, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Westfield, Brown | 2:06 |
| 13 | Ring My Bell [Remix] | Fresh Prince, Smith, Townes | 4:05 |
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