Will Smith… Chris Redd
[Starts with Will Smith rotating on a chair. Music video starting.]
[music playing]
Will Smith: [rapping] In West Philadelphia born and raised
on the playground is where I spent most of my days
when a couple of guys, they were up to no good
started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
she said…
Mom: You’re moving with your aunty and uncle in Bel-Air.”
Will Smith: I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there
the seat of my throne as the prince of Bel-Air
Turns out, the guys I fought weren’t regular thugs
they were a powerful gang running guns and drugs
and because of our fight one went to jail
so they followed me all the way out to Bel-Air
Thug: Let’s go to Bel-Air and kill that nerd!
Will Smith: They barged right through the door, started trashing the place
my uncle Phil got all up in the leader space
He said…
Uncle: Son, I’m a judge, so you better think twice.
Will Smith: Then they beat my uncle Phil with an inch of his life
Uncle: Call somebody. Call the cops.
Will Smith: Car roll, Tim pissed his caceis and snitched me out.
Tim: He’s hiding outside in the poolhouse
Will Smith: So, I got out of there as quick as I can,
laid low in a motel hiding from that gang
Then this lady showed up and here’s what she said
Lady: I’m FBI, you stay here, you’re dead
Will Smith: At that very moment, I was frozen with fear,
she said…
Lady: You wanna stay alive, you got to disappear
Will Smith: Cut to the city morgue where I’m scared and confused
she’s dressing a dead body in my clothes and my shoes
she said she needs my teeth and couple of hair
to make the thugs think the body’s of fresh Prince of Bel-Air
News: The body in the car has been identified as a Philadelphia man who according to friends, enjoyed Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool.
Will Smith: I watched my own funeral from behind the tree
I saw my mama cry as they buried me
I said, “Can I just let them know I’m alright?”
She said…
Lady: Now you’re a ghost, say goodnight.
Will Smith: I woke up in the warehouse on a maddow seat
where this scary Japanese male looking at me
Lady: The debt is repaid
Will Smith: The lady said to the man
I asked her, “Yo, what the fuck is happening?”
She said…
Lady: I’m not FBI, but I’m sorry I used you
but my father owes a lot of money to the Yakuza
Will Smith: So all of this was just a crazy ploy?
Man: Silence, worm, now you’re a nobody boy
Will Smith: Didn’t know what that was, didn’t wanna find out
butt they burned off my fingerprints and duck-taped my mouth
then, gunshots and the hits been dropped
the Philly thugs enter holding nines and glocks
Thug: Ay, yo, Philly’s my town..
Will Smith: Said the thug to the man
Thug: Gather up your crew and go back to Japan
Will Smith: The man just smiled and quietly answered
Man: Gentlemen, please teach our guests some manners
Will Smith: Both crews opened up, bullets firing pass through
red head got hit with a shotgun blast
in a shadow stood a man who nobody knew who he was
Thug: Who the hell are you?
Uncle: You can call me the judge
[everybody start shooting at each other.]
Will Smith: Uncle Phil said…
Uncle: You need to get off the grid
you can never go back to the life that you lived
Will Smith: So I crawl on the floor pass the red headed traitor
and her las words were….
Lady: Yo, see you later.
[Uncle Phill gets shot several times]
Will Smith: That’s my story, y’all about how
my life got flipped turned upside down
and if anybody asks, just stay right there
and tell them how I became [Cut to a homeless man] Jasper Mitchell of White Ridge, NH