Will Smith Album: “Greatest Hits”

If you like Will Smith but don't want to hunt through album after album to find his best stuff, buy this. Nearly all of the songs are great. Even though it doesn't have Switch on it, it is still definitely worth the money. Will Smith is not like most other rappers who swear a lot to get their point across. You can play it for young people without worrying about the content. Good vibes, no unnecessary hostility.

Pwei have been my Favourite band for a long time but I am sick of seeing a greatest hits released almost every year. If only they would release a DVD or something new.

This CD features alot of their old songs that are impossible to find now, so thats probably the best thing about it but on the whole if you have the singles or a greatest hits album than i think this is really pointless, the album comes with a poster which will probably be the best way into bribing you to buy it.

And a couple of photos of their T-shirts on the insleeve. I suggest if your a collector to buy this or if you are a die hard fan, or if you miss Pwei, or if you haven't got their earlier stuff or want to get to know who they are. Other than that its the same basic greatest hits no remixes and some packaging a poster plus a more in depth review on the insleeve, plus a couple of photos on the insleeve. Man my grammar is really poor lol!

Will Smith's Greatest Hits cd is a great cd to add to your collection, especially if you don't own any of his previous albums. I'm not saying they aren't worth owning, but this greatest hits collection is basically the best that he has to offer. Only a couple errors in my opinion keep this cd from getting 5 stars. His 1995 hit "Boom Boom Shake Shake The Room" is not on this disc and "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air" theme song is the extended edition which hard core fans will be all over. However, moderate fans like myself will be kind of bummed to be singing along and realize there's alot more to the song we didn't know. That's really the only drawbacks, the rest of the cd is great. Highlights for me include the 80's singles "Parents Just Don't Understand", "A Nightmare On My Street", "Summertime" and his later efforts "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It", "Men In Black", "Wild, Wild West" and "Will 2K". Fans will also be happy to know that the cd also features the Men In Black 2 theme song "Nod Ya Head", newer work "1,000 Kisses" featuring his wife Jada Pinket, "Just The Two Of Us" the sweet song where he raps about his son and alot more. In closing, this is a great cd for all Will Smith fans that will leave alot of people ready for Will 3k.

One of the most successful and, more importantly, lyrically respectable rappers, the multi-faceted career of Will Smith should understandably make a lot of other rappers jealous. As the "Fresh Prince" half of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, he rapped his way to one of the definitive summer anthems in history, the aptly-titled "Summertime". Unfortunately, like many other rappers, both talented and not-so-talented, he has a fairly intense craving for samples, and to that end, he uses too many great songs that were just fine as they were, and makes no effort at all to hide that fact. On "Men In Black" which borrows from the classic Patrice Rushen hit "Forget Me Nots", he even has Cheryl "Coko" Gamble of SWV singing to the tune of it in a very Rushen-esque voice. As I said before, though, I do have high regard for his rapping ability.

This is a pretty good greatest hits collection and if you like Will Smith's style you'll enjoy it. The only quibble is that it substitutes the rather bland remix of Nod Yer Head instead of the rocking soundtrack version from the movie. Oh well.