Philadelphia – In western Philadelphia, where he was born and grew up, he is now called a street Will Smith Shape.
The mayor of Philadelphia, Cherelle Parker and the leaders of the city Oscar winner and Grammy On Wednesday, rename a street next to the former Smith Secondary School.
“Philadelphia, I love you. I am yours. You are mine,” Smith said in a ceremony along a section of 59 street that now bears his name.
He remembered to learn the values of hard work and education of his mother and father before reaching him big as an actor and rapper.
“No one gets an easy trip,” he said. “That was one of the things that these streets of Philadelphia taught me: that there is nothing wrong with the work of a hard day.”
Among those who went out to see him was a former teacher who was the first to call him “Blue Prince”: an nickname that changed a little for the 1990 television program “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, in which Smith played a philadelphia teenager who will live with relatives in Los Angeles.
“The name ‘The Fresh Prince’ was coined in that building,” said Smith, pointing to Overbrook High School. “I added the ‘fresh’ because it was hip-hop jargon.”
Smith will release his Fifth studio album “Based on a real story” on Friday. It is his first music project in two decades since “Lost and Found”.
Grammys won by “summer”, “men in black”, “gettin ‘Jiggy with him” and “parents simply do not understand.” It also stars the “Bad Boys” cinema, “Men in Black” and “King Richard.”
