Jaden Smith was once a promising actor
but something happened on his rise to
fame to cause him to disappear from the
spotlight while children of Hollywood
stars often find it difficult to step
out of the shadows cast by their famous
folks Jaden has been doing everything in
his power to create his very own shadow
since the moment he was old enough to
perform but as Jaden grew from a young
boy to a young man his relationship with
Hollywood began to sour the early
box-office promise he'd shown all but
vanished and the actor / rapper /
philosopher has been distancing himself
from Hollywood ever since I miss my
dreads right but they're still on like
spiritually they're there and
spiritually I can hide behind that but
you just can't see them after Earth
aftermath even if you've never seen 2013
after Earth chances are you've heard of
it the disastrous sci-fi blockbuster
starring Will and Jaden Smith as father
and son cost 130 million dollars to make
but only returns 60 million dollars
domestically and landed an embarrassing
11% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes
what did you want me Joe will told
Esquire that was the most painful
failure in my career my son was involved
in after earth and I led him into it
that was excruciating
Jaden even won worst actor at the
Razzies the following year ad reputation
in 2014 the hacker group guardians of
peace stole a bunch of sensitive
information from Sony Pictures and among
the hackers hall were private emails
between executives most of the headlines
were about Big Time stars but Will
Smith's kids also came up in
conversation according to Us Weekly
Tristar executive Tom Rothman emailed
former Sony head Amy Pascal a link to an
interview that the Smith kids did with T
magazine writing one read this - they
are homeschooled
don't let this family date your movies
in the team AG interview - even
theorized your mind has a duality to it
so when one thought goes into your mind
it's not just one thought it has to
bounce off both hemispheres of the brain
when you're thinking about something
happy you're thinking about something
sad when you think about an apple you
also think about the opposite of an
apple the youngster then went on to
claim he could manipulate time saying
it's
proven that how time moves for you
depends on where you are in the universe
it's relative to beings in other places
but on the level of being here on earth
if you are aware in a moment one second
can last a year and if you are unaware
your whole childhood your whole life can
pass by in six seconds the then 16
year-old Jaden gave a number of
unconventional interviews over the next
few years each one as baffling as the
last my whole life revolves around
educating myself and just learning more
and educating the people around me so
that we can all be happier in 2015 he
told GQ that he had built his own
pyramid from scratch saying the tip is
missing but the whole structural thing
is built and it sits at 12.5 feet tall
I'll Instagram a picture of it once this
comes out so people know what I'm
talking about
the following year Jaden told Pharrell
Williams that nothing is real during
their chat for Interview magazine the
ones who know know but the ones who
don't know just don't believe science
over cinema after the crushing
disappointment of after earth Jaden's
movie career seemed to be over before it
had really even begun it would be three
years before he acted again and during
his time away Jaden and his sister
became more interested in the pursuit of
scientific knowledge than they were in
making movies he told GQ that he and his
sibling had started their own mystery
school saying Plato Pythagoras all these
students had mystery schools and what
they learned in there was secret like
you couldn't say the word dodecahedron
outside of one of the mystery schools or
they would like kill you or whatever
because it was such a sacred shape the
celeb even compared himself to
scientific pioneer Galileo saying people
think you're crazy I feel like it's an
honor actually for people to think I'm
crazy
because they thought Galileo was crazy
too I don't think I'm as revolutionary
as Galileo but I don't think I'm not as
revolutionary as Galileo strawberries
aren't berries but bananas are and so
are watermelons and avocados under
critical review Jaden once referred to
himself as quote the future of music
photography and filmmaking acclaim that
angered a number of journalists in these
fields for the New York Post Kyle Smith
wrote of the star Jaden's primary
activity these days seems to be trying
to be the black boy George - the talent
it wasn't the first time a journalist
had suggested that Jaden was all talk
and no talent The New Yorker wrote of
his performance and after Earth
jadynn though agile and skillful isn't a
care
maduk actor he doesn't put a lot of
personality into the part and he doesn't
have a deft way with the dialogue
Cinemax tape was similarly critical of
the young stars performance predicting
Jaden would do well to bottle some of
his dad's charisma for his next go-round
if he wants a career in film he'll need
to do better than this no support in LA
after failing his driving test in 2017
jaden took to Instagram to share his
disappointment with fans but his
thoughts quickly turned from driving to
life in Hollywood a few months later
jaden moved out of his parents quote
compound and into a four million dollar
estate in the quiet gated community of
Hidden Hills California which reportedly
stopped being so quiet after his arrival
one resident told Daily Mail this was a
quiet neighborhood but Jaden and his
entourage are turning it into their own
personal Kingdom he has a sense of
entitlement
he doesn't care if security reprimands
him or gives him a warning he just
continues to do whatever he pleases
Netflix and fail not long after he moved
into his four million-dollar pad Jayden
received word that Netflix was pulling
the plug on the get-down after just 11
episodes he played graffiti artist
Marcus desi Kipling on the show which
was created by Baz Luhrmann at the eye
watering cost of 190 million dollars but
luckily for Jayden he had another
project lined up with Netflix an anime
trainwreck
while some of Netflix's original anime
series have been getting rave reviews
others haven't been received quite as
warmly knock-knock
it's me Kaz I brought you a big
Toblerone created by Vampire Weekend
frontman Ezra Koenig 2017 s neo yoki o
star stayed in as a vain majestic rat
who spends his days socializing and his
nights hunting demons fashion is not a
commodity oh yeah
it's a glimmer of hope in a cruel world
polygon reported the show's real fault
was in the writing with the review Kaz
is an easy character to hate because
he's based entirely on Jaden's Twitter
persona his philosophical statements are
I roll inducing in every moment of
exaggerated teenage angst results in you
muttering give me a break under your
breath geek.com called neo yoki OA quote
mesmerizing train wreck and
is failure all about the music
Jayden has announced new musical
projects on several occasions but he
never seems to go through with them in
2016 he tweeted that he wanted to become
a kpop star and even though he confirmed
he'd be dropping a kpop single the track
never materialized in April 2017 he said
that he his sister and his girlfriend
Odessa Adlon we're starting a rock band
together even posting a preview of a
track but nothing ever came of that
either
then in November 2017 Jayden finally
dropped the album he'd been working on
all these years how long's he been
working on this damn song the 17 track
sire a beautiful confusion received
mixed reviews from critics but those who
didn't like it really didn't like it
pitchfork caught fire a paranoid fantasy
that makes his new-age thinking with
apocalyptic rhetoric it would be
generous to call this kind of song craft
scatterbrain Jayden finally revealed his
true intention for sire telling Vanity
Fair I want that vibe to come across so
that people can say hey everybody isn't
always happy 24/7 because people like to
think oh there are certain people in the
world that just have it all and they
have perfect lives but that's just so
not true and this is a big shine on that
that's exactly what it sounds like
kenny turn it around Jayden has been
quietly re-establishing himself as an
actor over the years securing low-key
roles into feature films in 2018 skate
kitchen and life in a year and he plans
to tour North America promoting his
album in early 2018 the rapper also
intends to release a deluxe acapella
edition of sire in 2018 and to also drop
its follow-up Aris before the end of the
year so while he might not have been cut
out for a career in Hollywood don't
expect Jaden Smith to go quietly or to
stop sharing his genius
50% of human DNA
you shared with the banana unbelievable
thanks for watching click the Niki Swift
icon to subscribe to our YouTube channel
plus check out all this cool stuff we
know you'll love to
[Music]