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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA — In the opening scene of Peacock’s “Bel-Air,” Will (Jabari Banks) blasts Freeway’s hit song “What We Do” from an app on his smartphone. I knew then that this was not my beloved “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” We were still using pay phones when the NBC sitcom was on in the 1990s. And though it’s a Philly classic now, “What We Do” wasn’t released until 2003. In the new show, Aunt Viv (Cassandra Freeman) is a repressed artist, Uncle Phil (Adrian Holmes) is a buff — let me repeat — buff candidate for district attorney, the Banks’ family’s butler (Jimmy Akingbola) is an English man wi…