Fans Salute Will Smith After Grammy’s Salute To Hip Hop 50

Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff reunite for a particular salute to 50 years of Hip Hop with the Grammys on Sunday (Dec. 10). The 2 hour “A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip Hop” particular debuted on CBS and Paramount+, and followers are nonetheless shocked at their stellar efficiency. Let’s not overlook, Will has the hits! Checkout a listing of Will Smith’s hits inside.

Grammy’s celebrated hip hop trailblazers and icons on Sunday throughout their particular because the 50 Years of Hip Hop celebrations come to an in depth. The particular marks the academy’s second time paying tribute to the style, the primary being a star-studded lineup that befell in February through the Grammy Awards ceremony.

All through the two-hour particular, rappers and DJs from all walks of life come collectively to have fun the music that began within the Bronx within the Seventies and unfold the world over, charting its influence by a robust lineup of rappers, beatboxers, dancers, DJs and presenters.

The particular, filmed at Inglewood’s YouTube Theater on Nov, 8, featured a number of performers spanning the complete 50 years of Hip Hop from throughout the globe. Artists who joined the celebration included Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff, Queen Latifah, Frequent, Public Enemy, Rakim, Doug E. Contemporary, MC Lyte, Rick Ross, Jeezy, Jermaine Dupri, YG, Too Brief, E-40, De La Soul, Akon, Black Thought, Nelly, Gunna and Likelihood the Rapper.

The one notable second followers can’t cease speaking about is when Will Smith reunited with longtime buddy and collaborator DJ Jazzy Jeff for a medley of each solo and collaborative hits. Questlove, greatest often called the drummer for the Roots, provides a good looking introduction to the rap duo, who had been the primary hip-hop act to obtain a Grammy award for hip-hop in 1989 with “Mother and father Simply Don’t Perceive.”

Jazzy Jeff was located behind his turntables on an elevated platform as Smith kicked it off with “Model New Funk,” a document from their 1988 sophomore album, He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper.

They cycle by Will’s discography from “Getting’ Jiggy With It” and “Miami” to his beloved theme tune from “The Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air.” After all they saved it basic, concluding with a efficiency of their highest-charting single, “Summertime,” which earned them their second Grammy in 1992 for greatest rap efficiency by a duo or group.

Will Smith celebrated the momentous event by sharing a number of moments from the present and reversion clips to point out what introduced him to this second.

Test it out beneath:

Followers additionally had loads to say however these sentiments had been our favorites:

Take a look at a listing of Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff hits beneath to have fun their contributions to the style: