Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Smith akaberekwa musi waSeptember 25, 1968 muPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, kuna Caroline (Bright), mutungamiri webhodhi rechikoro chePhiladelphia, uye Willard Carroll Smith Sr., U.S. Air Force veteran uye injinjini yefriji. Akakurira muWynnefield munharaunda yeWest Philadelphia, uye akarerwa muBaptist. Ane hanzvadzi yakura inonzi Pamela nevanun'una vaviri, mapatya Harry naEllen. Smith akapinda Our Lady of Lourdes, chikoro chepuraimari cheKaturike muPhiladelphia. Vabereki vake vakaparadzana paakanga ava nemakore gumi nematatu, asi havana kurambana kusvika muna 2000. Smith akapinda Overbrook High School. Nepo kwakashumwa zvikuru kuti Smith akaramba bhezari rokuenda kuMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), haana kutongonyorera kukoreji nemhaka yokuti "aida kuita rap". Smith anoti akabvumirwa kupinda "purogiramu yechirimo yokugadzirira unyanzvi hwokugadzira zvinhu" paMIT yevadzidzi vechikoro chesekondari, asi haana kupinda. Maererano naSmith, "Amai vangu, vaishanda kuSchool Board yePhiladelphia, vaiva neshamwari yaiva mukuru wevanopinda paMIT. Ndakanga ndine zvibodzwa zvakakwirira zvikuru zveSAT uye vaida vana vatema, naizvozvo zvimwe ndingadai ndakapinda. Asi ndakanga ndisina pfungwa yokuenda kukoreji".  Mubvunzo: Smith akaberekwa rini?
Musi waSeptember 25, 1968