Throughout an interview selling his new film Dangerous Boys: Journey or Die, Will Smith mirrored on how the theme music to The Recent Prince of Bel-Air mirrored got here collectively.
Joined by his co-star Martin Lawrence, the actor and former rapper was requested concerning the iconic theme music by host Peter Rosenberg. “So, Quincy Jones was the producer of Recent Prince of Bel-Air… he was mentoring me,” shared Smith across the 20:30 level of the interview, seen above. “So we’re getting the present and every thing, and Quincy had performed a theme music for Recent Prince. So he performs the theme music… and it was that old-school… [mimics a playful and bouncy sitcom theme].”
When Smith heard the theme music, he did not say something to Jones however later went to go-to producer DJ Jazzy Jeff to specific his concern. “Jeff was on the resort and I used to be like, ‘Jeff, Quincy performed a theme music… Dude, it is no good in any respect,'” he continued. “Jeff was like, ‘Simply inform him, man, he’ll perceive.’ I used to be like, ‘There ain’t no manner I am telling Quincy Jones.’ … Quincy is aware of higher than I do know, so I went to my room and like 4 hours later, Jeff hit me and performed the music for the theme music.”
When he heard what Jeff had cooked up, he immediately thought it was “somewhat bit higher,” and was inspired to jot down one thing alongside to the beat. “So I wrote that theme music that night time within the resort room with Jeff,” he mentioned. “We wrote it, we recorded it, he had a 4 observe… He was like, ‘Simply play it for Quincy.'” In response, Smith simply groaned, as a result of he dreaded telling Quincy Jones, of all individuals, that he believed he had made a greater theme music than he did.
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