Any time you have accolades like that, it's very easy to look at it like "This might be my last." But in hindsight, with the longevity of "Summertime," maybe we did deserve it. That very much could've been artist insecurity.
I felt we didn't deserve to win for "Summertime" that year. We were up against Naughty by Nature's "O.P.P." I felt "O.P.P." was a great record. I felt we didn't deserve to win for 'Summertime' that year." And he said on the radio, "I remember seeing you." I said, "You gave me that look." He apologized on the radio and told the whole story. I was like, "Wow, I just really got that look." The irony of going on the promo tour - we went to Chicago when "Summertime" was really starting to heat up. He was like, "Oh, man, that's great, I can't wait to hear it." And he walked away. Kinda like "Everybody says that." You don't pay attention if everybody says that. Just a really good record." And I remember him looking me in my face and I got that sad artist look from him. I walked up to him and said, "Hey, man," and he said, "Oh, hey, how you guys doing?" I said, "We got a record that I think is going to be really good in the summer. He's pretty much the biggest radio jock in the country.
He was "The Fly Jock." He had the morning show in Dallas and he'd get on a plane and fly to Chicago and he had the afternoon show in Chicago. 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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