That changed on Feb. 22, 1989, when DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince — Jeffrey Townes and Will Smith —won the first-ever Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance for “Parents Just Don’t Understand.” ...

In 1989, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince received the first-ever rap Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance for their track, “Parents Just Don’t Understand”. Since then, the genre has grown ...

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On this date at the beginning of Hip Hop’s “Golden Era,” Philly natives DJ Jazzy Jeff and his partner, The Fresh Prince, Dropped their landmark single “Parents Just Don’t Understand” on Jive Records.