Boom! Shake the Room
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| Single by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince | ||||||||||
| from the album Code Red | ||||||||||
| Released | July 20, 1993 | |||||||||
| Genre | Hip hop, golden age hip hop | |||||||||
| Length | 3:51 | |||||||||
| Label | Jive | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Danny G, Ray Hayden, Robert Easter, Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, Lee Haggard, Marshall Jones, Keith Mayberry, Ralph Middlebrooks, Walter Morrison, Norman Napier, Andrew Noland, Marvin Pierce, Will Smith, Gregory Webster, Wayne Williams | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Mr. Lee, DJ Jazz, Victor Emanuel Cooke, Jeffrey Townes | |||||||||
| DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince singles chronology | ||||||||||
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"Boom! Shake the Room" is a song by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. It was released in July 1993 as the second single from their fifth studio album, Code Red, released in 1993. The song peaked at number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain and Australia. The song samples "Funky Worm", a song by the Ohio Players. On September 17, 1993, the Recording Industry Association of America certified the song gold; it went on to sell 600,000 copies domestically.
On July 2, 2010, Australian band Art vs. Science performed a version of Boom! Shake The Room live at the Splendour in the Grass festival, which was recorded by Triple J radio and released on the band's 2010 EP Magic Fountain.
On 30 August 2010 the English metal band Sa-da-kO released a free download of their cover of the song. The band also performed the song live at Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2012.
In 2013, British post-hardcore band The Blackout recorded a cover version as a bonus track on their fourth studio album Start the Party.
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