![]() ![]() In the middle of the dance routine, an alien (Mikey from the film) comes in and screams at Smith. It soon has him surrounded by MIB agents in a warehouse. The video then cuts to several scenes of Agents experimenting on alien organisms and technology, with Smith rapping into further detail of the operations of the Men in Black. The surface begins to deform and show a glowing light from within. Will Smith enters with the line: "And we dress in black." There is then a cut to what appears to be an alleyway, a steel box which looks a bit like a commercial refrigerator in the middle. Tommy Lee Jones enters from around the corner and begins to explain in a voiceover the purpose of the Men in Black. It starts with a dark hallway lighting up. Robert Caruso directed the music video for the song. There's no doubt that this jam, which nicks its hook from Patrice Rushen's " Forget Me Nots", will be an outta-da-box smasheroo." Pan-European magazine Music & Media said that Smith builds his raps on the song by Rushen "in an instantly appealing way." A reviewer from Music Week rated the song three out of five, noting that "Smith raps some rather stodgy sci-fi stuff over Patrice Rushen's Forget Me Nots riff. Smith has never been a hardcore lyricist, but he also never been anything less than clever, charming, and shrewdly aware of what the masses will dig. Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Remember when Will Smith was better known as a rapper? That seems like a lifetime ago, doesn't it? Well, he returns to music in excellent form on this lighthearted theme song from the soundtrack to his new movie of the same name. An instrumental and short version of the song plays over the closing credits in Men in Black: The Series. It was also covered by Forever the Sickest Kids for the compilation album Punk Goes Crunk & by Alvin and the Chipmunks for the album The A-Files: Alien Songs. It was also featured after the end credits of the VHS release of "Men in Black". It was also included in the album All Time Greatest Movie Songs, released by Sony in 1999. The music video for the song also appears on the DVD The Will Smith Collection. "Men in Black" did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 because it was not released as a commercial single in the United States at the time, only songs that were commercially released as singles were eligible, but it did top the airplay chart. In Australia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, "Men in Black" became Smith's second chart-topping song after " Boom! Shake the Room" in 1993, Smith's first solo chart-topping song, and Smith's first chart-topping song released under his real name. ![]() "Men in Black" topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Release Īside from appearing on the movie's soundtrack, "Men in Black" also appears on Smith's Columbia Records album Big Willie Style. The line "To help you to remember" is changed to "They won't let you remember", in reference to the memory-erasing " neuralyzer" devices used in the Men in Black film. ![]() "Men in Black" features a sample of, and a re-sung chorus from, " Forget Me Nots" by Patrice Rushen. "Men in Black" reached number one in several countries and won Smith a Grammy Award in 1998 for the Best Rap Solo Performance. SWV singer Coko provides the chorus and background vocals. Lyrically, it features Smith discussing the role, function, and duties of the Men in Black as the character Agent J. ![]() The song plays during the movie's closing credits and samples " Forget Me Nots" by Patrice Rushen. The song was released by Columbia Records on June 3, 1997, as the lead single from both the soundtrack and Smith's debut solo album, Big Willie Style (1997), and it was Smith's first solo single following his work with DJ Jazzy Jeff. " Men in Black" is the debut solo single of American rapper and actor Will Smith from the 1997 film Men in Black, in which he also starred. "Dah Dee Dah (Sexy Thing)" ( Alicia Keys).From the album Men in Black: The Album and Big Willie Style ![]()
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