Will Smith

Will Smith has ridden the waves of mainstream pop culture masterfully, graduating ever upward to icon status as he developed from teenage rap sensation to sitcom phenomenon to blockbuster Hollywood star. As a musical presence, Smith maintained his wholesome take on rap from his mid-'80s multi-platinum hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince to a solo career that began in the late '90s. He would stay in the charts from their 1986 debut single "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble" to 1999's Willennium and beyond. As he continued to grow into an all-encompassing media personalit...