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Summertime (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince song)

"Summertime"
Summertime single.jpg
Single by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
from the album Homebase
Released May 20, 1991
Format CD
Recorded 1990–1991
Genre Hip hop, R&B
Length 4:30
Label Jive
Writer(s) Robert Bell, Ronald Bell, George "Funky" Brown, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Lamar Hula Mahone, Craig Simpkins, Jeffrey A. Townes, Will Smith, Charles Smith, Alton Taylor, Dennis "D.T." Thomas, Richard Westfield
Producer(s) K. Fingers (Craig Simpkins), Hula (Lamar Hula Mahone), Roland Edison
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince singles chronology
"Yo Home To Bel Air"
(1991)
"Summertime"
(1991)
"Ring My Bell"
(1991)

"Summertime" is a song by American hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. It was released in May 1991 as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Homebase. The song was produced by Chicago-based producers Hula & K. Fingers and won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 1992 Grammy Awards. It spent a week at number #1 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart, as well as reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also became the duo's first single to enter the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #8.

The song's instrumental samples "Summer Madness" by Kool & the Gang.



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