![]() ![]() One of the music trade shows was in the spring. I think people started looking at it like "These guys are on television, they don't do that kind of stuff." It was almost like everything people didn't think we would do, we wanted to do. We went on this very intensive promotional tour, which was weird. That opened up the song to an audience way beyond Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. One of the things that we did was unprecedented: Will got the Fresh Prince show to air the video at the end of one of the episodes. People usually don't have that kind of a bounce back. We came off a humongous record with He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper and had a subpar record with And in This Corner. Your insecurity always gets to a point where you don't know. Once I heard it and the mix, I did a mix on it. ![]() I think it's because you hear them over and over and that weird artist insecurity creeps in. I remember him calling me and saying, "Yo, I wrote this song about what we talked about." He played me this song and you know what the weird thing is about making records - you don't ever love the records you make. I remember calling me and I was pissed I couldn't be there. They know that there's a live version of "Summer Madness." There's a whole lot of Kool & the Gang before they got to "Celebration." The music guys who love Kool & the Gang hate "Celebration." The music collectors know that that's Kool & the Gang. Just the seasonal change, getting excited about summer. That was the first time that either one of us was not in Philly during that time to know it's something you'd miss. That feeling you get, anybody from the East Coast completely understands it. Some of the girls who weren't good-looking come out real good-looking, some of the girls who were good-looking come out better-looking. Some people got fat, some people exercised. As the seasons break, and it started to get warm outside, he'd call and say, "It's 72 degrees in Philly, everybody's out in short sleeves!" Being from the East Coast, you see the transformation of people from the winter months to the summer months. Will kept saying how it's crazy because it's Christmas and it's 78 degrees and there's no snow. This was the beginning of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Nowadays, publications, websites, Twitter-critics, your friends, and relatives all engage in a debate over what's the "song of the summer," but let's be honest: It'll always be hard to beat out the now-classic "Summertime." Here Jazzy Jeff recalls some memories of how it went down and the summer madness that their hit prompted. You likely have fond memories of this song, regardless of when you were born. The Grammy-winning song was everywhere in the early '90s and has since become symbolic of the changing of the seasons, warmer weather, cookouts, those first days at the pool. We're going to go ahead and say that if you make it through summer without hearing "Summertime," DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's 1991 hit - well, something went wrong with your summer. ![]()
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