![]() ![]() You know, being blessed to have our career span over so much time I think we want to put periods in to show of all of the ground we’ve covered. At the way everybody knows it, we’ve talked about bringing back a lot of the stuff. Is there any chance we might see it on the next tour?ĭJ Jazzy Jeff: I’m pretty sure. The funny thing is that I will absolutely not do it with anyone other than Will. When the TV show came, you know, it was like from the very first episode and Will and I greeted each other, we greeted each other like we had always greeted each other on tour.ĭo you two still do that in public or is that more of a private thing now?ĭJ Jazzy Jeff: We haven’t done it for a very long time. That was basically the Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Price tour handshake. He made the handshake up and we started doing it on tour. To my knowledge that trademark handshake between you two was something that you all brought over from the tour to the show. If you’ll allow it, I actually have a couple Fresh Prince questions. ![]() It was kind of like, “You guys haven’t been on stage in three years and you just go to the hotel, have a conversation and put together a full show.” That’s chemistry. We left and came back at the show and did an hour long show off of eye and hand signals and they were blown away. It was almost like a quarterback in a huddle. What am I coming out with? Do I want to extend it? Do I want him to talk. ![]() “What are we doing?” “You know, one or two.” We have signals that how many verses of a song he wants to do. I cut a beat and he freestyled over it, and you could see them very wide-eyed but the rehearsal was a conversation. We went to sound check and he came and I played a couple records, got the sound. When he was filming Suicide Squad in Toronto, we went up and it was funny because the guys I take on the road now - Dane Jordan and Fern and my current road crew - has never been around during the Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Price era. It’s funny because whenever he does movie premieres or things like that, I always will DJ the party and we always get on and end up doing a show. So what do you think it is about your chemistry that has kept it going this long and this strong?ĭJ Jazzy Jeff: You know what it is? It’s like somebody you know. Everything else is going to be filled in right after that. We have about 3 or 4 confirmed dates that will start everything. “When are you coming to Dallas?” I was like, I don’t know when we’re going or where we’re going, I just know we’re going. I think it was really hard because when he made the announcement - me and Jeff are going to this world tour, everyone called him. It’s like now that we know that people really want to see us, let’s put together the dates to do it. He threw it out there to see if people would care and the response was so overwhelming. ![]() I was with him about two weeks ago and we laughed because he basically - we’ve talked, we’ve always talked about it. What are the updates with you and Will Smith’s plans to go on tour or have an album released this year?ĭJ Jazzy Jeff: We know we’re going. That blurred line doesn’t really bother me, because I don’t think that there will ever be enough technology to replace what a real DJ does. Then the terminology comes up that just because you play the records, you’re a DJ. I think when you have these producers who make these records and people want them to be in the festivals to play the records that they made, the only way they can play the records– they cant really perform the records, they have to play them. You listen to mixtapes now and they’re just free albums, so I think people are using the wrong terminology. I grew up in the era where a mixtape was a DJ who actually mixed the records together on the tape. It’s almost like the same thing with people saying mixtapes. Established DJs look at it like it’s not really DJing, and I think people are kind of misconstruing the name. It’s not as much of a lost art as the other side of people just - there’s another approach that people are having when it comes to DJing. I was like hey, when the opportunity came up I was excited.īeing the veteran DJ that you are, what’s your opinion on current claims that “legitimate” DJing is becoming more of a lost art among the newer group in regards to how they approach it?ĭJ Jazzy Jeff: I think it’s two-sided. I was really excited just to come- I don’t really get a chance to play in Baltimore, the Baltimore/DC area a lot, especially being outside. Last season was incredible and I think this one is going to be better. How busy do you expect to be during the festival season this year?ĭJ Jazzy Jeff: I think it’s going to be really good, just the season. It was just announced that you’ll be headlining the Light City Baltimore festival at the end of March. ![]()
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