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.