Conspiracy Theories

Fresh Prince is Dead

How he died

So, it starts out with the classic show intro. At the start, we se that he accidentily throws a basketball at a gang. After this, the gang supposidly beats him up, leading to his death. You can go with that, or another similar theory, where Will goes into a depression after getting beat up, where he commits suicide.

Meeting God

After the fight, Will's mother makes him move to his uncle and aunt in Bel-Air. He then takes a cab from Hollywood. In the song, he also mentions that the cab seemed "rare".

The distance from Philadelphia to Bel-Air is 2676.2 miles or 4306.9 kilometers. Today, that cab ride would cost $8,356.96 Which is alot of money, and Will, probably didnt pay that price. Why? Because the taxi driver was God, himself. And he was taking Will to heaven.

Author's note: There is an alternate theory where the taxi driver is death itself taking Will to heaven and Uncle Phil is God. This makes more sense to me. In the show, Uncle Phil has a way of knowing everything Will does no matter how hard he tries to hide it. This goes along with the notion that God is all-knowing and omnipresent. There is also the fact that Uncle Phil is a judge. This could be representative of the final judgement God is said to make at the end of humanity.

Will's Heaven

Finally, Will makes it to Bel-Air. And for him, this is his heaven. Here, he is happy, and he is with friends and familly. We only see his mother and father on rare occasions. This is because this is when they visit his grave.