AllHipHop: As a volume on the Summertime mixtape series, what makes you and MICK come back?
Jazzy Jeff: When we did the first one, it was great to publish it. People in the U.S. He enjoyed it, played it on the barbecues and, if I’m not mistaken, XM Satellite made its debut and played it. It’s just a wonderful summer atmosphere. I didn’t expect the other people in the southern hemisphere to start rocking in December and January because summer was coming. So it’s crazy, because it essentially covered two other spaces in opposing seasons. We wouldn’t have continued if other people hadn’t asked for it.
Since the second, Michael Rappaport has been a tweeting guy, u2019s the summer mixtapeArray has reached the point that it’s not officially summer until we’ve introduced a mixtape. There were some times when we dropped it on the first day of summer or the Fourth of July, but when we missed the first day of summer, other people said, ‘You’d better leave it on the Fourth of July! You can’t complain, because if other people didn’t like it, they wouldn’t ask for it.
AllHipHop: How did you and MICK know and design what the global phenomenon of the Summertime Mixtape series now has?
Jazzy Jeff: It’s funny and that Mick is a big fan of DJ Jazzy Jeff – The Fresh Prince. I met him through his mixtapes of yesteryear and I’ve become a fan of him. I was able to do some exhibits with him and we exchanged numbers, and we started talking to the point that when Will was throwing birthday parties and stuff like that, and I was hiking or booking somewhere else, Mick would pass by and he had those. Parties. It was exciting for him that we were his heroes developing, and then now he’s having Will’s mom’s birthday party performing with Will. We simply form a friendship, then, unexpectedly, present this concept for the summer mixtape. He was the mixtape guy, I didn’t. When I approached to do this mixtape, my brain began to move to ‘u201CHot Fun In The Summertime’ u201D of Sly ‘The Family Stone,’ u201CSummer Madness’ and’u201CEverybody The Loves’ and so many other concepts I thought, u201CLet ‘u2019s do it! U201D
AllHipHop: I love the illustrations of the assignments! How do you paint this concept in combination and who is the visual brain?
Jazzy Jeff: Mick has been the art guy. I was mixing and Mick took care of the total backend because he was the mixer. I would locate the other people who have made amazing works of art. I don’t forget what year it was, but one of the covers was Mick and me, my twins and their son. Not so long ago, you may conceive of doing something like this without a big company, but with the explosion of social media, Mick can succeed in other people, locate artists and collect things that we can combine and we’re not even in the same room. One of the T-shirts we made this year had all the summer artworks combined and seeing this is great and how crazy it has all been during the years of creation of those mixtapes.
AllHipHop: Enter the creation and production of DJs, who were and were your greatest inspirations and influences?
Jazzy Jeff: I deserve to say that Kenny Gamble of Gamble and Huff was and is an older brother to me. It’s a bit like developing in Detroit in the Motown era and seeing the effect of Berry Gordy and Motown. I grew up in Philadelphia in the time of Philadelphia International and saw the effect of Gamble and Huff. When we got to the point where Will and I started releasing records, Kenny Gamble contacted without delay and formed a friendship in which he would guide me with some of the most important recommendations I have received. The life recommendation and career recommendation came from him, so it was a blessing to have a guy like that around me.
AllHipHop: Longevity, what do you think is the key to your good fortune for over 30 years? And, of course, what helps you move on?
Jazzy Jeff: Don’t think about longevity, first, because I think as soon as you start paying attention to what’s happening, that indicates the end. It’s just my opinion. I don’t like the things I’ve done; I take a look to look to the future. I think you need to figure out why you started doing it, especially something like that. It began as a hobby that became work, became a career. Many other people have a task that they think is a career, and many other people have a career and treat it as a task. I have chosen to do what I love instead of what will pay you the maximum or provide you with maximum good fortune. With good fortune come many other things that will take you adrift if you leave it. I don’t forget to do an interview in the studio I had in Philadelphia when we had just released Jill Scott’s record and Musiq Soulchild’s album. This interviewer called me and asked me to call 3 of the peak productive moments of my career, and without hesitation they began to summon me to the party in the park in that place, the party in the park in that place, etc. The interviewer was surprised that those things I called had nothing to do with my good luck. It was also an a-ha moment for me because for me it was anything I enjoyed doing, and good fortune was just an extra element. I do this because I like it.
AllHipHop: Let’s go back to debut for a minute, to DJ Jazzy Jeff’s debut album – The Fresh Prince in 1987, with ‘Nothin’ ” Nothin” ‘u2019t Nothin’ ” u2019 ‘But Trouble – where you showed T- Ski Valley – u2019s – u201CCatch the Beat u201D for the song. Tell me about the production of this for you and prince prince, who put you on the map.
Jazzy Jeff: It’s not that we didn’t know what we were doing, but we just don’t care. We don’t care about good fortune or money, we were just in the studio creating something. Many other people don’t perceive what it means to create something. For me, creating is like giving birth. Here I write in those drum pads, I look for those samples, I make those scratches and he proposes concepts and writes the lines. We record it, broadcast it and other people love it. He’s like a child! Ain U2019t Nothin – U2019 yet Trouble – U201D is a 30-year-old! We didn’t think about what that child would look like when he developed, but about making the child as doped as possible. When you make your first album, you have a lifetime to do so, but you only have time from your first album to your album at the moment to do this moment.
AllHipHop: 1988, you took a big step forward in creating what has become the Grammy Award-winning song ”u2019t Understanding’- u201D from the album He’ u2019s The DJ, I’The Rapper’ . How did you create this recording with Peter Frampton – u2019s – u201CWon – you be My Friend and John Davis – u2019 – u201CI Can – u2019t Stop – u201D samples?
Jazzy Jeff: It would possibly be two years after someone knew he was a Peter Frampton patron. I used to take a look at the sites and be careful, and very few people would come up to me and say, ‘u2018hey, here it is, you’re not included.’ We made this album in London and I was making beats in the hotel room. , then we went straight to the studio and left them. There was no expectation or anything. Love and effort to create anything is what motivated us. Will is a very artistic person, which anyone can say with his acting career. We would put that same point of creativity in our music. I was doing the music and Will was telling me what the music was telling him, that’s what music tells him to write. We wrote about what was going on in our lives. Ain U2019t Nothin was a tale with Will expelled from space through the father of a daughter. We had played at one of the awards and came home thinking we were shit! I went into my space and my mom told me to stop by the street and have a loaf of bread and part a gallon of milk. Will and I looked at each other like, u2018Wow, we got back from London doing the big thing. And it was as if parents just didn’t perceive that it had become a song. Many of those songs were created because of the conversations we had and what was going on in our lives.
AllHipHop: This writing procedure and what you say about how music dictated what was written is evident with songs like ‘u201CNightmare’ on My Street ‘You couldn’t write anything but what those songs were.
Jazzy Jeff: It was often music, but one thing he said was that writing the song wasn’t the hardest thing for him. I imagined the concept that was the hardest part. He proposed the concept of u201C in the summer before the music was made, since it was no longer the case the first year he was in Los Angeles to do the Fresh Prince of Bel-AirArray exhibition being on the East Coast, he did not have the seasons with which we grew up. It was 90 degrees at Christmas there. So when he started calling me in April and May to ask me what was going on here and I was thinking, he just hit 70 degrees here and every single one in Plateau, washed my car, drove down South Street and we were given a steak of cheese. I gave him the game through the game that the weather breaks on the east coast, and he misses it because it does 90 degrees every and every day in Los Ángeles.Es nostalgia which made him write this because anyone on the East Coast knows you. I have another 4 feelings each year. Entering the fall season, it is reflective, in winter you look with a frown because you have to deal with those elements, when spring comes, your eyebrows rise because I haven’t seen you all winter, and summer moves and it’s a smart time.
A song like ‘u201CNightmare on My Street’ was born because I did a groove and he told me it was a fairytale rhythm, it’s a little dark. When he started saying nightmare things, I started to bring up more nightmare elements. It’s like a tennis attack where I hit something, and he brings me anything we get something from.
AllHipHop: ‘201CBrand New Funk’ is a perfect song that showed Will Smith’s lyrical prowess on the microphone. Tell me about the creation of this album, which remains a fan favorite to this day.
Jazzy Jeff: I don’t forget to do this in the London hotel room, I cut the sample, I did the beat, I came here with the cuts, I wrote it, we went to the studio and recorded it in a day, and it was a wrapping. We thought this song was the first single, but the label said it wouldn’t be the first single. They were right. We were able to make the live video ‘u201CBrand New Funk’ while we were on tour because other people enjoyed this live.
I think Will sought to make more of that kind of records, but because we had established the narrative of u201CGirls ”u2019t” of Ain” u201D” and ”u201C Parents just don’t understand”, we were a little encouraged with the corporate record to make sure that we have those records at all times. I think you’ll find a new funk-like record on each and every single album we’ve made, but it’s been overshadowed by every single thing we’ve done. As one of the first bands to have pop success and cross-attraction, you didn’t realize how much record corporations depended on that.
People don’t realize that Will used to walk in a truck, locate the MCs and decide the battles. Will’s pedigree is that of a fighting rapper. He was very intelligent, very lyrical, but also very funny because he learned how he could beat everyone with humor. That’s where the facet of humor comes from in all those songs. It was Will.
AllHipHop: And In This Corner – u2026, the 1989 album contained the memorable song and video – u201CI Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson – u201D. I think it was amazing that you had Don King and Mike Tyson in the video. What was it like to shoot this clip?
Jazzy Jeff: At first, when we did concerts in New York, Mike Tyson was there, so we got to know him early in his career thanks to his arrival at the exhibitions in the Latin Quarter and in places like that. Again, we came here with this concept of ‘u201CI’, I think I can beat Mike Tyson ‘u201D’ because we were joking about how other people would give their opinion on how they can beat Tyson. We thought it would be fun to do it, and then as if other people were talking to Mike about the video.
A lot of other people were looking for Mike in his video, but he never showed up. At the time, Mike was doing everything he wanted to do. We filmed the video in Ohio, where Mike was living at the time, to verify and make things easier. And I think about how we had this whole movie crew here, and Mike might not show up. We almost had a contingency plan for that if he didn’t show up. But this is Mike, and he’s running. He stops and says, you, get in the car, I need to show you something. We got in the car with Mike and left for about three hours. The team didn’t know what to do, but what are you going to tell Mike Tyson?
He built his space and sought to show us his space. We’re in the horse car in Ohio’s Amish country with Mike Tyson, while the film crew is waiting. But he came back here, yet the gloves came, Don King and we made the video. The only thing that sucked when that song fell, lost to Buster Douglas. It’s embarrassing!
AllHipHop: Speaking of Mike Tyson, what do you think of The return of Mike’s u201CIron?
Jazzy Jeff: Once Mike started his education and took it seriously, I think it’s amazing. I think you’re going to see Mike Tyson’s seniority for three laps. It’s not built for the long term, however, I think we’re going to have 3 of Mike Tyson’s exciting highest rounds. Maybe someone with Mike’s ferocity can beat the champion in three rounds.
Now, don’t twist it, Roy Jones, it’s Roy Jones. I’m a boxing fan, and one thing I do know is that Roy Jones’ chin wasn’t Mike Tyson’s chin, and Roy Jones’ punch wasn’t Mike Tyson’s. I just need everyone to be safe.
AllHipHop: In addition to your good fortune at the Grammy Awards, you and prince prince have achieved iconic prestige with the release of u201CSummertime, which evidently continues to go through strong rotations in cars, barbecues, etc. What did this song mean to you? in your career and you’re still surprised how long this song has remained ubiquitous?
Jazzy Jeff: Every summer, I wait for this song to go away. And he doesn’t need me to die, it’s just that you’re not used to it staying that way. To think that you participated in a television screen that has been on the air for two or 3 more generations and that you recorded a summer record of more than 30 years after each time they play this album, top artists hope to have that one thing that stands the test of time. To be part of a couple, I, you sit down and think about how exciting it really is.
Will’s Philadelphia is missing, time converting so much that he was encouraged to write something like this, taking advantage of a vintage like ‘u201CSummer Madness’, or the song will come out a year before or after and probably wouldn’t have had the same impact. I think it’s the best typhoon you’re a part of. And every single year you’re looking for someone to come out with the new summer song, and there’s been a million summer songs since then, but other people keep coming back to your song it’s just amazing.
AllHipHop: You’ve been part of several ancient and classic moments of hip-hop and entertainment in general since winning the first Grammy for hip-hop, you launched the TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the eternal and never aging, until now abandoning the eleventh edition of the popular mixtape Summertime. Looking back, what do you think of the effect of those amazing moments and think that DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince get the respect they deserve for their contributions to hip-hop?
Jazzy Jeff: The appeal is that I think there’s a time when you might feel despised or neglected, but then you realize it’s about the individual. People have favorites. You may win a Grammy, but if your favorite artist was Kid’s u2018N Play, you’ll say Kid’s’ u2018N Play deserves to have won.’ I can’t do anything to replace my mind, because that’s your non-public opinion. I think what really helped me was that I was one of the first to adopt social media. Social media gave an idea of what other people thought and said, infrequently to the detriment, but I learned that it may not get me carried away because other people do things for tastes. Once you realize it, it’s like a sign. I’m doing this for myself. If you prepare a meal and commit to pleasing ten other people with a meal, you probably won’t exceed 10. But if you’re preparing a meal you want to prepare, you’ll probably eat one. I started doing this with my lens and shooting, and I just want to stay there.
We spent a lot at the beginning of our career with things like other people who said we were from the suburbs. And I look around where I grew up and it was so far from the suburbs, yet it came here from Will, who didn’t curse in his raps. What we put in our music has nothing to do with what has developed our life or what we have seen. We just chose to do something different. Serena and Venus Williams come from Compton and play tennis. So that doesn’t reflect your life. You get to a point in time when the most sensitive things bother you. So what if you’re not on the most sensible one hundred users list, because there are other people on the lists who don’t even know what they did?
AllHipHop: Tell me about his paintings in the film Straight Outta Compton and that Dr. Dre in particular asked him to do so. What’s the story of your involvement there?
Jazzy Jeff: Dr. Dre and I have been great. I got a call from someone who said Dr. Dre was hunting to touch me. I was like anything. Then another user succeeded and said that she was Dr. Dre’s assistant and that she was looking to contact me. I left him alone again, but a former manager touched me and told me Dre was looking to succeed me. I think it could be genuine now, and about five minutes later, he called. We communicated for a few minutes saying just hello and things like that, and then it starts to say it took a long time to signal the NWA movie, and now that he made the signal, he was looking for someone to DJ. paintings that includes this period. He said I was the first user to come to mind.
Unless he said much, I knew I had to be in 1989 and do the scratches like I would have done in that period. The first lot I sent back, hit me and said, ‘You have to make me look good, put a little more standing on it. I didn’t need to go too far too soon, but I came back and did it again. When I was doing the lyrics of Ice Cube in my head to locate when to release the music and put the stripes on it. When I sent him this, he lost his brain because that’s essentially how they experienced it. After moving on to the Philadelphia premiere, I hit him to tell him it was amazing. He called me back in about two seconds and said, “You understood, he took me there. I appreciate it. Dr. Dre is another one who has been doing this for a long time like me, and when we talk, you can see that he enjoys the trip. Even now, Will and I will take this look out of you, won’t we?
AllHipHop: Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about people’s five most sensitive rappers. Who’s among DJ Jazzy Jeff’s most sensible five?
Jazzy Jeff: I don’t make lists like this because I feel like I’m opting for my favorite kids and I realize it’s a matter of non-public opinion. But LL Cool J, KRS-One, Rakim, Biggie and Kendrick Lamar are all in my Top 5. My criteria are not based on longevity, words or things like that. I’m a conductor, so I also pay attention to music. I’ve been preoccupied with so many debates about me saying that Kendrick Lamar ‘u2019s’ and ‘u201CTo Pimp A Butterfly’ is the biggest hip-hop album I’ve ever heard. I like these debates, but I don’t take them too seriously because we also go through times and generations. That’s why you can’t compare LeBron James to Michael Jordan, because it was all different then and now. We can speculate, but we’re going to know never. People have their favorites in the debates and he won’t be able to replace his mind. This is no clearer than the debate on 2Pac and Biggie. I know other people who didn’t grow up in Pac, and Biggie was everything. And there are others for whom 2Pac was all for them, but Big was just great. But it’s not that bad for me.
AllHipHop: To conclude, we also saw Will Smith in the studio for about last year, and you and he did a quarantine concert. So when can we expect the collaborative album DJ Jazzy Jeff ‘The Fresh Prince’?
Jazzy Jeff: Actually, we talked about that. It’s unconvincing where we are because it’s the 30th anniversary of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and we had a lot of projects like making plans for a tour, going to the studio to make some other record and other things on the table. But then the pandemic is hot and the overall is a very different position right now. I’m pretty sure he’ll be back, but right now, other people are just looking to figure out what the long run will be like. I don’t think things will ever be the way it was, but we’re going to want to see what this new landscape of life and entertainment will look like. Once it’s clear, I hope Will and I will quickly return to where we were.
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