Talk about regret. When asked about his biggest career mistake Kid from Kid n’ Play revealed to HipHopDX that he and Chris “Play” Martin turned down being on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Kid explains that they had an animated series and a sitcom deal with NBC. However, NBC wanted to cancel that cartoon but keep the sitcom.
Reid goes into detail about what happened,
‘We still want to do the sitcom,’ and they also said, ‘but we want to cancel the cartoon series.’ It was this new thing they were doing by going into live action, like Saved By The Bell and stuff like that. They were phasing out cartoons, period. Well, we were so disappointed by that because we’re OGs, we came up on cartoons. So for us becoming cartoons was a big deal. And we were really upset that they were talking about canceling the cartoon. So we told them, and this is probably one of the dumber things we ever did, ‘We don’t want to do no night show with you. We don’t want to do no sitcom. If you cancel that cartoon, then you cancel us, we’ll go elsewhere.’
So Kid N’ Play give up that slot and it became the slot for Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and obviously Will Smith was casted.
Think about where Kid N’ Play and Will Smith would be had this not happened.