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<pre class="nfo">DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - And in this Corner...<br />
Original Release Date: October 17, 1989<br />
Certified Gold<br />
The Billboard 200: #39 Peak<br />
Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums: #19 Peak<br />
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Singles:<br />
I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson<br />
(Billboard Hot 100 #58)<br />
Jazzy's Groove<br />
(Hot R&B/Hip Hop Singles #70)<br />
Will Smith, Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince And in This Corner... <br />
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Tracklisting<br />
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* Then She Bit Me<br />
* I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson<br />
* Jazzy's Groove<br />
* Everything that Glitters<br />
* You Got It (Donut)<br />
* Girle Had a Moustache<br />
* Reverend<br />
* Who Stole My Car?<br />
* Men of Your Dreams<br />
* Numero Uno<br />
* Too Damn Hype<br />
* Jeff Was on the Beat Box<br />
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Album Reviews<br />
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All Music Guide<br />
3 stars out of 5<br />
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More wit and whim from Jeff and The Prince, this time with assistance from saxes, flutes, and trumpets. Though not as commercially successful as its predecessors, it's actually a more faithful rap work.<br />
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-- Ron Wynn<br />
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Q Magazine<br />
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DJ Jazzy Jeff/The Fresh Prince<br />
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With no new Salt-N-Pepa recordings this year, hip hop's been in grave danger of drowning in its own attitudes. NWA, Public Enemy, De La Soul and so on?everybody's got a point they're determined to labour. Except, it seems, DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince, two cartoon-type characters hell-bent on mucking about. To a background of often unexpected samples?the odd toccata is thrown in with the James Brown and Sly Stone borrowings? solid bass hooks and crisp beats, they create a series of genuinely witty playlets about such nonsense as taking on Mike Tyson (I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson), going out with a vampire (Twilight Zone), cheap holidays (Everything That Glitters) and the panic when you discover your car isn't where you left it (Who Stole My Car) featuring a cast of characters from winos to preachers. To see a team as obviously hip hop-talented as this (the music and phrasing is everything anyone could want) willing to risk making themselves look silly and have a bit of fun cuts through the genre like a blast of fresh air<br />
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- Lloyd Bradley<br />
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(Issue #41)(February 1990) </pre>
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