Wednesday, 24 March 2021

God bless YouTube: Jeff & Will Waz On The Box

Rippin' up Showtime At The Apollo in 1989, it's Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince performing Jeff Waz On The Beatbox. Alas, the Apollo crowd were not as receptive to Jeff & Will's charms as the Union Square crowd because there's a stark contrast in energy levelz between artists on the stage and audience in the seats.



Alongside The Girlie Had A Mustache, Jeff Waz On The Beatbox is one of the two tape/CD bonus tracks from the shitty third Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince album which bodies everything on the regular LP. Them crackas at Jive™ f*cked things up big Willie style by relegating both songs to bonus status when they shoulda been the third album's two main singles: Jeff Waz On The Beatbox is a far better tribute to Jazzy Jeff's human-Octopus DJ skillz than Jazzy's Groove, while The Girlie Had A Mustache bangs way harder as a Fresh Prince storytelling yarn than the frankly Godawful I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson. Plus, imagine how hilariously #problematic a video for The Girlie Had A Mustache could be by modern day Cancel Culture standards, right?

5 comments:

L.A said...

Jazzy's Groove is the only cut I know from this album.

hotbox said...

Tyson is a bad song but that album has a few joints. Code Red on the other hand. . .

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Jazzy's Groove is the only other keeper imho.

I've still never heard Code Red.

Realer than Titania McGrath said...

Any rap song would most likely be deemed as #problematic by today’s cancel culture.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

A Nightmare On My Street was a hate crime against burns victims.