Bust your bubble (Rock The House - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince)

Member Name: biggerdeffer

Product:	Rock The House - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
Date:	01/04/08 (55 review reads)
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Advantages: comedy old school pop rap

Disadvantages: dated, but that's obvious

Well when I saw that this album had just been added to dooyoo I just had to add my opinion.
The picture shown is of the UK release, the US version shows Messers Townes and Smith sporting white and green Benetton sweatshirts
(which myself and my brother used to own)

The US release was 1987 (although most of the tracks would have been available on 12" in 86) way before "The fresh Prince of Bel-Air" was even considered

Here is the tracklisting and a breakdown of each song:


"Girls Ain't Nothing but Trouble" - story about the trouble the Fresh Prince gets into with various ladies. samples I dream of Jeanie theme.
the version most popular in the UK was the Paul Oakenfold remix (as the album version was kinda empty) until Jazzy jeff remade the song in 1988 adding a few extra samples and another verse added by FP.

"Just One of Those Days" - story about the trouble the Fresh Prince gets into whith a girl at school and being late from work. contains a replayed version of "putting on the ritz" as the hook

"Rock the House" - Fresh Prince and human beatbox Ready Roc C explaining how they rock the house.
uses resung versions of Michael Jacksons Ben, Diana ross' theme from Mahogany and a beatbox version of Sanford and Son's theme

"Taking It to the Top" - a dull album filler

"Magnificent Jazzy Jeff" - A tune showing off the DJ skills of DJ Jazzy Jeff, hard old school beats, fresh (for it's day) rap by Prince, Jazzy Jeff making the records Burp, sound like a bird and turn into an Autobot.
This is by far my favourite tune by the duo!!- uses samples of 19 by Paul Hardcastle and Nothin serious just Buggin by Whistle.

"Just Rockin'" - another dull album filler, Prince telling us what he's doing.

"Guys Ain't Nothing but Trouble" - rapper Ice Cream Tea telling us a story about Guys being trouble (Fresh Prince provides the male voice trying to chat up Miss Tea while she tries to make a run for it and pulls out a gun)
b-side of girls ain't nothing but trouble, also contains sample of I dream of Jeanie

"Touch of Jazz" - DJ Jazzy Jeff cuts up a bunch of jazz to create a new tune (now, for some reason the samples escape my mind but I remember they were mainly Bob James tracks, once my brain is up and working again I will update this section)

"Don't Even Try It" - Story about how good the duo are, not an outstanding track though.

"Special Announcement" - just chatting, nothing to say here.


These days this album will sound incredibly dated (well it is 21 years old) but for it's time it is a very important piece of work
People will diss it, But I know at the time even the most hardcore heads would have bobbed and laughed at the adventures of Fresh Prince and would have gasped in amazement at the skills of DJ Jazzy Jeff.
I know full well that I did!

I will still use portions of these tracks in my mixes and shows being as they are easily recognisable to people of my age (who I see singing along to all the words, as I do)

so, now it's a nice piece of pop history and a lot of fun, but back in the olden days a great mix of comedy and great beats.
obviously you can still catch Will Smith at the Movies and the occasional album, as well as seeing DJ Jazzy Jeff touring all over the world still spinning the wheels of still and wowing the crowds with his DJ skills.

Summary: takes me back to my younger days