Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles 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