Boy You Knock Me Out
Tatyana Ali featuring Will Smith
1999
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
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About Will Smith
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
Will Smith began recording as the Fresh Prince in a Philadelphia partnership with DJ Jazzy Jeff. Their accessible, often comic songs established his musical identity before television and film expanded his audience. He continued into solo rap with Big Willie Style, including Men in Black and Gettin' Jiggy Wit It, followed by Willennium and Lost and Found. Soundtrack singles and albums became connected parts of a career spanning music and screen performance.
Artist background sources
Will Smith - Biography.com music career sections
Read music sections on Philadelphia/Jeff Townes, comic delivery, named solo albums and soundtrack songs. Omit controversies, private life, unsupported no-interruption chronology, totals and chart ranks. Paragraph remains below source's 100-word derivation allowance. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
Boy You Knock Me Out by Tatyana Ali featuring Will Smith is included for 1999 on the basis of the cited chart-associated source. This establishes the annual connection, not the circumstances in which the song was written. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
UK top-ten singles in 1999 (Wikipedia chart transcription)
Secondary chart transcription reviewed: title, artist and presence in the UK top ten during this year. Supplemental annual selection, not an original release date or a U.S. year-end rank.
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Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
UK top-ten singles in 1999 (Wikipedia chart transcription)
Secondary chart transcription reviewed: title, artist and presence in the UK top ten during this year. Supplemental annual selection, not an original release date or a U.S. year-end rank.
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