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Will Smith hung out backstage at Arsenio Hall Show 'all day, every day' trying to get famous

Will Smith hung out backstage at 'The Arsenio Hall Show' — 'the greatest greenroom ever' — 'all day, every day' trying to get famous (exclusive).

On the latest episode of the Vice docuseries Black Comedy in America, Smith recalls the chance meeting backstage at a popular late-night talk show that led to his life getting flipped, turned upside down as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In 1989, Smith, and his longtime friend and partner Dr Jazzy Jeff, won the first rap Grammy with their hit "Parents Just Don't Understand"; however, when his second album flopped, his music career was left dead in the water. After paying some back taxes and selling his worldly possessions, Smith moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career with all he had left: $4,000 in a brown paper bag.

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