Ice Tray, we hardly knew ye.

“At that point I was doing a lot in studios.

Again, I never completely dropped the idea of music,” he said.

Don Cheadle and Will Smith on ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’

Don Cheadle and Will Smith on ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’.Chris Haston/NBCU Photo Bank

“It was always in the sidecar.

I wanted to take a crack at the theme song.

They’re like, ‘Go ahead.’

So I set off and my producing friend Kenny Finch wrote the theme song.

(Yes, you’ve got the option to!)

We shot a whole pilot.

Didn’t get picked up.”