being on YouTube felt like the first
time where I didn't have to have any
kind of gatekeeper to tell me yes or no
it was just like people were seeing my
work the video I put online the first
day it's a million views because I do
everything on my own I sit in a living
room by myself and I scream at a camera
and that's been my career for the past
two-and-a-half years you're one of the
main examples of us seeing somebody in
the span of a couple months ago from
just making music in their home to
really having a record that's on the
radio every hour it's playing it's
insane I saw this trailer the Morgan
Cooper hooked up and it was called bel
air for some reason you think this is a
game this is not a game wheel
look at you the only reason why you're
not in jail is because uncle feel called
in a favor this is the first time that I
heard something I was like yo that's
that's an idea
that is brilliant I will not fill you
out again in this house I'm not uncle
field
I'm the law so how did that idea come to
you to do that well you not grew up
watching the show you know I mean it's
something that since I was five I
remember watching you know I remember
seeing what you did you know on the
screen so it's always been a part of me
and so I remember driving out 71 in
Kansas City and I was just thinking
about the show and I remember driving
under this overpass and I would say I
drove under it and when I came out I had
the idea it hit me like a ton of bricks
you know and I knew I had to tell a
story Bel Air is a reimagining it's a
reinterpretation of this incredible
story and bring it into modern day life
in 2019 yeah Mike come on are you all
right yeah we're out here Mike can come
and sit so uh Mike wrote from the first
season of Fresh Prince as funny as the
episodes are there was a whole other
layer that you couldn't do like in a
one-hour drama you can do eight episode
arcs the dramatic version of these ideas
means that you can use existing
storylines but it's not going to seem
like you're redoing an episode because
the story lines going to be brand-new
from the dramatic perspective once you
go back to Philly born and raised right
I think I would ever want to be in this
life not welcome well this is fake
wherever your suspect will do anything
to earn
I never had what do you think it's the
optimal delivery of this idea you know
this incident takes place in the middle
wills junior year I envisioned the first
season being the rest of his junior year
there's no worse time for a kid to you
know land in a new place in the middle
of school I'll tell you a little bit
about the pilot wills playing basketball
his friends or whatever and you know we
see the gangsta's on the sidelines like
wills actually got a future in hoops
Luke jet doesn't like that we launched
an atom that sets the fight off we get
to go back to the beginning and start
talking about my real experiences for
example for me I moved to LA and started
to fresh prints and all of my friends
started getting killed and going to jail
the escape that I made from it in real
life was the escape that will made in
the show was I going to be that same
statistic or was I gonna do and be
something different what's exciting to
me is the new medium of it all that you
put something on YouTube right you like
just made a trailer created something
I'm excited and inspired about that new
way that human beings are interacting
and ideas are getting created like even
to create a pitch video is in keeping
with the the flavor of how the idea came
came to me
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Morgan did a ridiculous trailer for
bel-air
brilliant idea the dramatic version of
The Fresh Prince for the next generation
check it out for some reason you think
this is a game this is not a game we'll
look at you look at you the only reason
why you're not in jail is because uncle
feel called in a favor
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you notice
stupid you are carrying a gun on the
streets to protect yourself I've done my
best wheel it's time for a change
you're going to bel-air to live with
your uncle and your auntie bel-air out
of all places this is a second chance
wheel don't waste it
will I will not bill you out again in
this house
I'm not Uncle Phil I'm the law have I
made myself absolutely clear yeah yeah
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there are no Butler's the clean up your
messes you've got to be responsible for
yourself so will what brings you to
bel-air I caught woody gun how related
again he's from the streets of
Philadelphia will needs discipline just
a little time just a little time and a
little love we are what he needs
why don't you go back to Philly born and
raised right I think I would ever want
to be in this life not welcome Wales's
face wherever you're gonna do anything
to earn this I never had my life in a
sitcom I live do you feel like I belong
here just give it some time
everything happens for a reason yo you
must be from Philly yeah what's up man I
will jazz jazz
hey so apart-er time standing pill then
they got you out there all right Billy
let's see what you got well welcome to
bel-air Academy everything up le I just
made tea I'm so proud I'm so glad you're
here I need to take you shopping Rodeo
Drive oh my gosh still man
when it was raining 10 toes down
with a will to live daddy never came
home
Silva's Bendix he got him
playing in
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[Applause]
hey Jess hey Prince you can go here