Jaden Smith American Rapper With 18.5M Instagram Followers

Early life

Jaden Christopher Syre Smith was born on 8 July 1998 in Malibu, California. His parents are the actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. He attended New Village Leadership Academy and was later homeschooled by his parents. He took up skateboarding as a child, and together with his siblings he served as a youth ambassador for Project Zambi, an initiative with Hasbro that assists Zambian children orphaned by AIDS.

Career

Smith appeared alongside his father in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), playing Christopher, the son of Will Smith's character. His performance earned the Breakthrough Performance Award at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards. In 2008 he played Jacob in The Day the Earth Stood Still, a remake of a 1951 film that also starred Keanu Reeves, and in 2010 he starred opposite Jackie Chan in a remake of The Karate Kid, as Dre Parker. He and Will Smith were cast together again as father and son in After Earth (2013). He also appears in Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011).

His first step into recorded music was a guest verse on Justin Bieber's 2010 single "Never Say Never", made for the soundtrack of The Karate Kid. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified five times platinum in the United States. He released his debut mixtape, The Cool Cafe, on 1 October 2012, and a second, CTV2 (Cool Tape Vol. 2), on 8 November 2014. After that he stepped back from acting to concentrate on music, a break he explained by saying that the parts he was offered did not appeal to him.

Smith worked for about three years on his first studio album. Syre arrived on 17 November 2017 and entered the Billboard 200 at number 24. Its lead single was "Fallen". In July 2018, on his twentieth birthday, he put out Syre: The Electric Album, a guitar-led reworking of the record, first on Instagram and then on streaming services. His second studio album, Erys, followed on 5 July 2019 and debuted at number 12. In 2020 he released CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3, which he described as completing three trilogies at once. Its single "Cabin Fever" came out in July 2020, and the album includes a collaboration with Bieber, "Falling for You". Syre, Erys and CTV3 reached the top 40 of the Billboard 200. He signed with Roc Nation and Interscope Records for these albums. As a live act, he supported Fall Out Boy in 2017, J. Cole in 2018 and Post Malone and Tyler, the Creator in 2019, and he headlined the Vision Tour in 2018.

He returned to acting on television in the Netflix series The Get Down in 2016, and he voiced Kaz Kaan in the anime series Neo Yokio. In 2018 he took the lead role in the skateboarding film Skate Kitchen, and in 2020 he starred with Cara Delevingne in the romantic drama Life in a Year.

Smith has also worked in fashion. In 2016 he modelled womenswear in a campaign for Louis Vuitton, the first man to do so for the house. In 2018 he created a denim line with G-Star, and he also has a clothing label, MSFTSrep. In September 2025 he was appointed creative director of Christian Louboutin, the brand's first male creative director, with responsibility for four collections a year across men's shoes, leather goods and accessories.

Recognition

Besides the MTV Movie Award, Smith was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2022 as a featured artist on Justin Bieber's album Justice. "Never Say Never" earned a five-times platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.

Public roles

Smith has been a partner in the spring water company Just Water since childhood. The company aims to provide an affordable water filtration system for use in disadvantaged regions and to support water infrastructure, and it launched in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2018. In 2019 he began a mobile restaurant serving free vegan dinners to people experiencing homelessness, with other customers paying for their meals.