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Wild Wild West (Will Smith song)

"Wild Wild West"
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Single by Will Smith featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee
from the album Wild Wild West (soundtrack) and Willennium
B-side Chasing Forever
Released May 4, 1999 (1999-05-04)
Format CD single
Recorded 1998
Genre
Length 4:28 (album version)
4:07 (single version)
Label
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Will Smith singles chronology
"Miami"
(1998)
"Wild Wild West"
(1999)
"Will 2K"
(1999)

"Wild Wild West" is the title of a hip hop song co-written by Will Smith as the theme song for Smith's film of the same name. The song also appears on Smith's 1999 album, Willennium. Will Smith's 1999 release was recorded specifically for Smith's planned summer blockbuster movie, Wild Wild West.

The song became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and its extended music video, directed by Paul Hunter, was a hit on MTV. Will Smith's "Wild Wild West" single samples Stevie Wonder's 1976 hit song "I Wish", with parts of the chorus from Kool Moe Dee's song of the same name as well. Kool Moe Dee re-performs that chorus for the song, with additional guest vocals from the group Dru Hill. The album version of the song also features, as an introduction, a brief spoken word conversation between Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith in which Will asks his son what song he should perform next, and Jaden suggests this one. The song won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song. This song appeared in the video game Just Dance 4.

Despite its pop success, the song was criticized for both sampling Wonder's song and for its incongruity with the western for which it serves as the theme. It won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst "Original" Song of 1999.

In the South Park episode "Cat Orgy", Eric Cartman sings a parody of "Wild Wild West".


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