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| Daddy Will and the boys Trey and Jaden |
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| Daddy Will and the Willow |
Can we still call Willard a musical dad? Damn right he's the Producer to Jaden and Willow in the household as he tells us. When I was in Pharmacy school in West Philadelphia and lived in the hoodish college area, Will was at Elm street and we used to hang out with him and Jazz on the street corners after school. You see, they were the local Power 99 FM DJ's that came in the evenings and weekends to REMIX everything without one single curse word. What happened to RAP music today? All we hear is guns, gangs, weed and all the ills of society.
Will Smith, now an A-List movie star tried his hands on rapping on a BBC interview while recently promoting his new movie "Men in Black 3." He belted out the Fresh Prince track which brought back serious memories for me. If you watch his music video "Summertime", I'm one of the ladies dancing exactly at 0:43 and one of my sons now 27 is the baby boy getting down dancing with the little girl in that prominent video scene at 0:41.
The memories this brought back was the day NBC came to West Philly to film the theme song of the show on our neighborhood basketball court. Will called me to come watch and hang out that day in 1989, so you now know it's all a true story in that clip. Oh yes! He always got into trouble in the neighborhood. I still have one paper clipping from the Philadelphia Inquirer back then at home in storage that reads "Fresh Prince arrested for Assault." However NEVER in my life would I think Will would go this far in his career. I never took him serious!! Will already said he does not have the time for music as he watches over the children's musical careers.
I always thought he would end up as a Comedian as I started to see that funny demeanor come out of him in that NBC sitcom. In another brush of life's coincidences, I later met his wife Jada in another work of life in Baltimore where I lived for the next 15 years. She was dating young Tupac Shakur as a teen during their school days at the Arts school. I met Jada when I worked as the Pharmacy Manager of Constant Care Medical Center in a Baltimore hood and her mom was the Nursing Manager married to Baltimore's black high profile criminal lawyer, Warren Brown whose client killed my Pharmacist partner 5 years later in a random carjacking. Life's coincidence and everyone knowing everyone. R.I.P Yvette Beakes.
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| MsKemi and Jada Pinkett-Smith in 1997 during the Nutty Professor promo tour. |
I helped Jada launch her then new movie "The Nutty Professor" in 1997. Will and Jada were dating and later married. I attended that secret location wedding and it gets better. KJ and Willow were born in the same hospital days apart. As Jada was getting ready to checkout, I was checking in. Look at the kids now! Life is great! Happy Father's Day to Actor/Rapper Will Smith--MsKemi
Will doesn't tweet. He's on Facebook
