Due to his voice being worn out from a previous night out, he recorded his song in a lower tone than his usual, unknowingly bringing out a style similar to rapper Rakim, whom Smith admired as one of his favorite rappers at the time. Due to a delay in his flight back home, Smith wrote the entire song in one sitting and decided to record it in Chicago. It also became the duo's first single to enter the top ten of the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #8.Īfter Will Smith completed recording for the tracks produced by Hula & Fingers in Chicago for the Homebase album and was headed back to Philadelphia, the producers handed Smith the tape that would become "Summertime". It spent a week at number #1 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart, as well as reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (their highest charting single on the latter). Fingers, and it won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 1992 Grammy Awards. The song was produced by Chicago-based producers Hula and K. " Summertime" is a song by American hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, released in May 1991 as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Homebase (1991). Fingers (Craig Simpkins), Hula (Lamar Hula Mahone), Roland EdisonĭJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince singles chronologyĭJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime on YouTube
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