Parents Just Don't Understand

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"Parents Just Don't Understand"
Single by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
from the album He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper
Released	1988
Genre	Hip-Hop/Rap

"Parents Just Don't Understand" is a song sung by rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.

[edit] Song

The song starts out with Will Smith (The Fresh Prince) telling how parents don't understand how kids make mistakes. Later in the song Smith notes how his mother won't buy him the clothes he wants. Later, Smith tells us that his parents went on a mimi vacation, and while gone he takes the new Porsche for a spin. On his way he picks up a girl. As the song goes on Smith tells us that he gets pulled over for speeding. That's when Smith admits he doesn't have a license. The girl turns out to be a 12 year-old runaway. His parents come back and he gets grounded. after that he says the song most repeated line "So to all you kid all across the land, just take it from me, parents just don't understand".

[edit] Trivia

• The song makes refrences to Adidas, Porsche, and McDonald's.
• A remake of the song was sung by Lil' Romeo and Nick Cannon, which it appears in the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius soundtrack. Will Smith and Jeff Townes are credited to the contribution to the song, due to the similarity of lyrics, just the remake was more cleaner, and some fans thought was not as good as the original
• The song won the 1989 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance, the first of two ever awarded in that category.
• The song was referenced in the show The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, in the episode "Not With My Pig, You Don't", in which Philip Banks (James Avery) says to Will "You don't get it Will, sometimes parents just don't understand."