Will smith parents just dont understand video

So this regular Flashback Video feature will serve to remember some of the music videos from the great '80s decade that made an impact on me in one way or another. This is the second single released from the duo's second studio album He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper in February of A great deal of that success was due to the fun and comical music video which received heavy air play on MTV.

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Will smith parents just dont understand video: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh

Track listing [ edit ]. Charts [ edit ]. Certifications [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Retrieved 27 July Retrieved 29 October So it seemed that "Parents" was a logical next step. And they had gotten even better at what they were doing, so it was destined to be even bigger.

Will smith parents just dont understand video: Producer(s), Harris, Smith, Townes Music

I think we all knew it was going to be big. PETE Q. Over a period of a week we worked on that song, along with others. One of the main things for us, as producers, was to focus Will's rapacious rhyme output. He was always writing. We had to fit it all into a three- or four-minute song. That was our biggest achievement in many ways, because many of the other elements were already there in the songs they brought us.

Jeff brought a lot of beats to the studio. There's a weird bass sound in the song, and I can't even remember where we took it from. There's that drum-fill sound all throughout the song, that was off another record that I brought in. I can't remember where that one came from, either. I played most of the elements of that track, including the snares, on the Fairlight.

There wasn't that much back-and-forth, musically. We put music together when Will and Jeff weren't even there, on occasion. I don't even think that on the original version they had a proper bassline. The one I put on there was really just a doodle that fit with the pitch of the brass samples we were using. We definitely knew that song would be a hit, because we had recently done Samantha Fox's "Touch Me" [from].

We knew what a hit was, especially a pop hit. And those lyrics on "Parents" are so funny and so accessible to so many people. We felt that it only needed a good bassline. It sounded very commercial to us. It might have been his second or third video.

Will smith parents just dont understand video: Artist Will Smith Song:

We contacted him when we knew that was going to be a single, so we could work on it collaboratively. He basically followed the idea of the song. I'm actually tagged up on the walls, as "Tokyo Rose," if you look close. That was a one-day shoot, probably 18 hours. It was fun doing all the artwork on the walls for it. We got there early to do that, there was a great artist named Greg Harrison, he was the production designer.

He was the guy that came up with the look on the walls. He designed things for the "Nightmare On My Street" video set, too. There were a lot of influences to the look of the walls.