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  • DJ Jazzy Jeff credits his wife Lynette 2

  • for saving his life. 3

  • One of the times I dozed off and I woke up 4

  • and my wife was staring at me and I was like, 5

  • well, what's wrong? 6

  • Why are you looking at me like that? 7

  • And she said, I know how you breathe. 8

  • I know how you sleep, and this is not it. 9

  • And took my temperature and was like, nope, we're out. 10

  • We're out. 11

  • The legendary artist believes 12

  • he came down with COVID-19 and early March. 13

  • Jazzy Jeff, whose real name is Jeff Townes, 14

  • was on a gig in Idaho then. 15

  • By the time he got back home to Delaware, 16

  • he noticed something was off. 17

  • My temperature started going up, 18

  • but it started to get to a point that I would doze off 19

  • and think that I'd slept the entire night 20

  • and I would wake up 21

  • and wonder why the movie I was watching 22

  • when I'm dozed off was still on, 23

  • only to realize I've only slept for 12 minutes. 24

  • Wow. 25

  • Just during that doctor's visit Lynette took him to, 26

  • they didn't test him for COVID-19 but for the flu. 27

  • That's when they found pneumonia in both of his lungs 28

  • and put him on strong antibiotics. 29

  • They told him if it got any worse, 30

  • he'd need to go to the ER. 31

  • So now my brain is playing 32

  • all kinds of weird tricks on me. 33

  • I had pretty much four or five really, really bad days 34

  • before I think the antibiotics kicked in 35

  • and I started to eat and started to taste my food, 36

  • 'cause I said the taste and smell. 37

  • It was about that time Jeff realized 38

  • he may have contracted the virus. 39

  • I am all jacked up right now just because of all of this. 40

  • I've been sick before. 41

  • That was the first time that I had two moments of me 42

  • being sick that I said to myself, 43

  • wow, this is how I'm going out. 44

  • I really thought I might not make it through this 45

  • and thank God every time my brain kind of went there, 46

  • my wife just so happened to walk in the room 47

  • and she caught me and, no, no, no, we're not doing that. 48

  • We're not doing that. 49

  • And she kind of pulled me out. 50

  • Word on the street you was down for a couple of days. 51

  • I was out of breath every time 52

  • I had to go to the bathroom. 53

  • Wow. 54

  • Yeah, that was scary, 'cause Lynette doesn't panic 55

  • and she called me with the panic vibe. 56

  • So I just immediately called D-Nice to see 57

  • if he would be available to... 58

  • (laughs) 59

  • [Stephanie[ Jeff says Lynette was sick, 60

  • but her symptoms were far milder. 61

  • She'd only lost her sense of taste 62

  • and had a mild cough for two days. 63

  • He says they plan on getting tested. 64

  • It was funny because me being sick has made me 65

  • take this very serious. 66

  • A reason why I started DJing every Saturday online 67

  • is to preach to people. 68

  • I am only playing for the people that are in their house. 69

  • The only way that we're going to get rid of this is 70

  • everybody do what they're supposed to. 71

  • Every week Jeff spins 72

  • his magnificent house party from his home studio, 73

  • hoping to encourage everyone to keep their tails at home. 74

  • It's the magnificent lunch mix. 75

  • Celebrating the music from 1996, y'all. 76

  • I realized that my job as a DJ is 77

  • I'm a servant of the people. 78

  • We have never had as many people sitting in one place 79

  • in the world all at the same time. 80

  • (scratching) 81

  • So he teamed back up with his group mate 82

  • and former castmate will Smith for an impromptu concert. 83

  • Literary genius and a superior beat creator ♪ 84

  • Have come together ♪ 85

  • And we made a musical competition ♪ 86

  • Which we think is the remedy ♪ 87

  • To cure all the dance floors that's empty ♪ 88

  • You wanna dance ♪ 89

  • We got what you want ♪ 90

  • Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince bustin' out ♪ 91

  • With the brand new funk ♪ 92

  • His first time out of the house 93

  • was last week, for what would be a stressful trip 94

  • to the supermarket with his wife. 95

  • We got in the car and we started driving and she started 96

  • explaining it to me like, yup, I have my hand sanitizer. 97

  • I wiped the cart down and do this and you got to do this and 98

  • such and such, and her talking got me so much anxiety. 99

  • I was like, turn the car around and take me back. 100

  • I can't do all of that. 101

  • I'm not physically prepared for that, 102

  • and she was like, it's gonna be okay. 103

  • The crazy thing about me is I do 104

  • 160 dates a year. 105

  • How can I fathom going into a club? 106

  • Have you been seeing a therapist 107

  • or was that part of your regular routine before? 108

  • Is that something you're going to consider now? 109

  • It was part of my regular routine before. 110

  • I have not since all of this. 111

  • It definitely is going to have to be something 112

  • because the way this is embedded. 113

  • And thank goodness he's here to celebrate 114

  • the 30th anniversary of one of TV's most legendary shows. 115

  • You know the theme. 116

  • Now this is a story all about how ♪ 117

  • My life got turned upside down ♪ 118

  • First of all, to get to a 30th anniversary, 119

  • we're just kind of like, wow. 120

  • Will and I had some really, really big stuff planned. 121

  • I'm keeping my fingers crossed. 122

  • Maybe something'll happen and we can still kind of do it. 123

  • (piano music) 124

  • (Will yelling) 125

  • The cast recently had a Zoom reunion 126

  • and paid tribute to the bank's patriarch, Uncle Phil. 127

  • The first couple of times 128

  • that I'm seeing clips of James. 129

  • After James Avery passed away in 2013. 130

  • How was the fresh Prince reunion? 131

  • Was it as fun for you to participate in 132

  • as it was for us to look at it? 133

  • We had never, all of us gotten together. 134

  • I've seen almost everyone at some point in time, 135

  • but it's never been a thing that we can all corral each 136

  • other together and sit down and have that conversation and 137

  • it was really nice. 138

  • I can't remember the last time we were together. 139

  • It might've been the last episode, all of us. 140

  • So to have everybody, even if it was on a Zoom call, 141

  • just to talk. 142

  • It's crazy that Tatiana has two kids. 143

  • She was a kid when she was on the show. 144

  • You're just like, wow, you have two kids of your own. 145

  • It was definitely good to see everybody 146

  • and take that trip down memory lane. 147

  • One that almost didn't happen, 148

  • because Jeff didn't even want to be on the Fresh Prince. 149

  • Man, I'm starvin'. 150

  • When do we eat here? 151

  • We eat here later. 152

  • You eat here never. 153

  • (audience laughs) 154

  • I did not want to do this at all. 155

  • Early on, when we got the show, Will asked me to do 156

  • the first episode. 157

  • I was in the first episode. 158

  • I wasn't in the pilot. 159

  • And I said no. 160

  • This wasn't what I wanted to do. 161

  • I was solely music, 162

  • and the way he presented it to me was listen, 163

  • they want you to do three episodes. 164

  • If you do one and you like it, 165

  • you got two to look forward to, 166

  • and if you do one and you hate it, 167

  • you only have two to do. 168

  • So I've decided to do it. 169

  • Ah, the joke's on you, Mr. Banks. 170

  • You can't throw me out 'cause I'm already outside. 171

  • Audiences around the globe are glad he did, 172

  • including this reporter. 173

  • And I used to get so upset, 174

  • because they used to treat you so bad. 175

  • (laughs and speaks indistinctly) 176

  • Like damn, he didn't do anything. 177

  • All he wants to do is treat Hillary right. 178

  • That's it. 179

  • And aboard the wheels of steel is the undisputed greatest 180

  • DJ alive, DJ Jazzy Jeff right here. 181

  • For three decades of memories, 182

  • laughter, and nostalgia. 183

  • Summer, summer, summertime ♪ 184

  • Thankfully DJ Jazzy Jeff and his tight knit family 185

  • are here to stay. 186

  • Do you get to be like, I'm tired of everyone in this house 187

  • because your wife essentially saved your life? 188

  • Once I came through this and I realized how much I'm here 189

  • because of my wife, she can do anything she wants. 190

  • I'm fine. 191

  • For inside edition.com, I'm Stephanie Officer.

DJ Jazzy Jeff credits his wife Lynette 2

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