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Login to post your comment. Show More Comments. No thanks Delete. Cancel Update. Login to reply. Cancel Reply. Contact Us. GDPR Compliance. Smith was a good student whose charming personality and quick tongue were renowned for getting him out of trouble, a trait for which he soon gained the nickname "Prince. Smith began rapping at age 12, emulating heroes like Grandmaster Flash but tingeing his rhymes with a comedic element that would later become his trademark.
At 16 Smith met future collaborator Jeff Townes at a party. The Fresh Prince rapped about teenage preoccupations in a clean, curse-free style that middle America found safe and entertaining. Their debut album, Rock the House , hit the Billboard Top , and made Smith a millionaire before the age of The early success put any thoughts of attending college out of Smith's mind.
Early on, it was reported that Smith had turned down a scholarship to Boston's elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT , but Smith later dispelled the rumor when he told an interviewer: "My mother, who worked for the School Board of Philadelphia, had a friend who was the admissions officer at MIT. But I had no intention of going to college. It was followed in by And In This Corner Two years later, Smith began his crossover into acting.
Drawing on his experiences with fledgling stardom, NBC signed Smith to headline a sitcom about a street-smart kid from Philadelphia who moves in with stuffy relatives in the posh Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel-Air.
Playing on his rapper persona, and at times featuring his friend Towne, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a huge success that ran for six seasons. Shake the Room. Holding his own alongside Donald Sutherland , Stockard Channing and Ian McKellen , Smith played a street-wise gay hustler who cons his way through elite circles. Smith's first steps into superstardom came with his next film, Bad Boys The high-budget cop movie saw him team up with comic Martin Lawrence , breaking away from the Black-cop-white-cop formula that had been so successful for Beverly Hills Cop and the Lethal Weapon series.
The two Black leads proved an instant success and Smith — playing the smooth lady killer to Lawrence's clown — was established as leading man material. Smith next took on the epic sci-fi flick Independence Day , a role that confirmed him as a major player in Hollywood and the go-to guy for summer blockbusters.
He played a pilot leading the counterattack against invading alien forces, and his comedic talents effortlessly transformed into the pithy one-liners all action heroes need to be able to drop while dispatching their enemies.
Smith fought aliens again in his next blockbuster, the comic sci-fi action film, Men in Black Smith rapped the theme song, and its inclusion on his solo album, Big Willie Style, brought the multi-talented actor more success. Despite the film's lackluster box-office performance, the track Smith cut for the film became a hit on his album, Willennium. The golf movie The Legend of Bagger Vance was his next big film, with Smith playing the caddie to Matt Damon 's out-of-sorts swinger.
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