Jaden Smith
"The greatest lesson I’ve learned from my parents is to be myself, at all costs, no matter what anybody thinks."—Jaden Smith, in an interview for NYLON (August 2016)
"How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real"—Jaden Smith, in a May 2013 tweet
Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (born July 8, 1998) is an American actor and rapper. He is the son of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith. He is also known for odd, but poetic tweets that went viral starting in 2013,[1] and for modelling in a skirt for Louis Vuitton.[2]
Controversies had been aroused due to the fact that he is perceived as being riding on his parents fame while being actually talentless, which is no helped by him crafting a public persona of bizarre eccentricity in looks and speech that overshadows (and even tints) his professional work.
Select roles:
- The Pursuit of Happyness (film, 2006) — Christopher Gardner Jr
- The Karate Kid (film, 2010) — Dre Parker
- After Earth (film, 2014) — Kitai Raige
- The Get Down (Netflix original series, 2016) — Marcus "Dizzee" Kipling
- Neo Yokio (Netflix original animation, 2017) — Kaz Kaan
Discography:
- The Cool Cafe: Cool Tape Vol. 1 (2012 mixtape)
- CTV2 (2015 mixtape)
- This Is the Album (2015, with Daniel D'artiste. Despite the title, this is an EP.)
- Syre (2017)
- Syre: The Electric Album (2018, also an EP)
- The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story (2018 mixtape)
- Erys Is Coming (2019, EP)
- Erys (2019)
Jaden Smith provides examples of the following tropes:
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- Adam Westing: many people noticed that Kaz, his role in Neo Yokio, seems to be based in Jaden's Twitter persona.
- Boastful Rap: "Icon"
- Cloudcuckoolander: Jaden's persona in Twitter can be boiled down to this.
- Epic Rocking: "Ninety" (7:48) and "Lost Boy" (9:29), from his first album Syre .
- Ice Cream Koan: Jaden's tweets often come off as this, if not as Narm Charm.
- Stage Mom: It's rumored that he got into the industry due to the push of his famous parents. That he has starred in two films with his very famous dad, one of those films seemingly tailored to be a career entry ticked, doesn't help to dispel this notion.
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