Man that shit was good
Will Smith is back in the booth coming for the crown
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Are you kidding? You've got to look beyond the Magic Johnson Theater - Will Smith's appeal is WORLDWIDE.
"After Earth" may have been labeled a flop on Black Twitter, but it made over a quarter of a BILLION dollars. And Will got his Tyler Perry on as the writer, producer, story creator AND star. Suicide Squad made nearly three quarters of a BILLION dollars - almost $100M more than MIB3. And he's got SEVEN more films completed or signed and in the pipeline through 2020
https://www.the-numbers.com/person/770401-Will-Smith#tab=summary
ReleaseDate Title Role Domestic BO International BO Worldwide BO
12/16/2016 Collateral Beauty Howard $31,016,021 $54,299,049 $85,315,070
8/5/2016 Suicide Squad Deadshot $325,100,054 $421,000,000 $746,100,054
12/25/2015 Concussion Dr. Bennet Omalu $34,531,832 $15,831,958 $50,363,790
2/27/2015 Focus Nicky $53,862,963 $105,200,000 $159,062,963
2/14/2014 Winter's Tale Judge $12,600,231 $9,868,389 $22,468,620
5/31/2013 After Earth Cypher Raige $60,522,097 $190,977,568 $251,499,665
5/25/2012 Men in Black 3 Agent J $179,020,854 $475,192,631 $654,213,485
Why you quoting that? Especially when you've been caught liking his "features"?"Yall be doing features, I be doing Features..."
Get yo mind out the gutter son.
Co-Sign... He's being himself like I expected him to.
All true
You can't run a legitimate business is like a criminal organization
MURDER INC. (mafia hitmen)
DEATH ROW (penal system
STATE PROPERTY (penal system)
its not surprising they didn't last long and all failed.
You ain't lying
grown man shit right there
Shit was dope.
Well, everything he said was true...lol
Me personally,I never thought he was corny I think he found a lane and stuck with it. You have too many rappers that tries to put R&B elements into their music but do it very poorly. These mumble rappers couldn't put a syllable together,if you gave them a dictionary.
That line was tight as shit!
Rakim Didn't Ghostwrite Will Smith's Classic "Summertime," But He Did Turn It Down
Contrary to rumors, Rakim's pen didn't touch Will Smith's "Summertime," but it was his song first.
https://djbooth.net/features/2016-07-18-rakim-turned-down-will-smith-summertime
Contrary to rumors, Rakim's pen didn't touch Will Smith's "Summertime," but it was his song first.
- Will Smith
For years, people have suspected that Rakim secretly ghostwrote the Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff’s timeless anthem “Summertime.” In a recent interview, though, Rakim revealed that while he didn’t write the song, it could have been his.
In a conversation with HipHopDX, Rakim confirmed Eric B’s comments in another interview, confirming that the beat for “Summertime” was originally made for The God MC, not for Will Smith. Eric B also told Combat Jack that he had Rakim record over the production, but people were in his ear telling him the song was too soft. He passed on it, and Philly’s son made a hip-hop classic out of it.
Rakim confirms that he had the beat “on the backburner,” but that it didn’t fit the presentation he wanted to make for his first album:
“It was something that we wanted to use, but we felt that the time wasn’t right because of the choice of all the records that we had on the first album. But that’s a joint that you can’t deny. You know, maybe it could’ve been hooked up a little more street-ready, and it was something that we thought was a hit record. But we didn’t want to come out and grasp on that first album. We was trying to ease back on that.” - HipHopDX Interview
It’s easy to see this as Rakim having missed out on one of the greatest songs in rap history, but all things considered, it’s tough to fault his choice. As the story so eloquently states, there are two periods of rap: pre-Rakim and post-Rakim. The Long Island, New York native has one of the most bulletproof discographies in rap, and he’s one of the few artists who can confidently say the game would be completely different without him.
Artists turn down beats that end up as hits or album gems for other artists all the time. The stories are endless: Lupe Fiasco turned down the song that became B.o.B’s breakout hit, “Nothin’ On You.” 50 Cent reportedly passed on “See You Again,” which Wiz Khalifa drove to a billion YouTube views, three GRAMMY nominations, and the top of Billboard charts around the world. There’s also a scene in the Jay Z documentary Fade To Black where Hov looks perplexed while Timbaland plays him the rumbling zoo animal sounds that Ludacris would employ later with “The Potion.” And just this year, ScHoolboy Q used a Metro Boomin beat to make "Dope" that his TDE cohort Kendrick Lamar passed on.
Would some of these songs still have been hits for the artists they were originally crafted for? Possibly, but there’s no guarantee. If you’re going to pick beats based on the idea of what other artists may do with them, you're hustling backward. All you can do is stay focused on your artistic vision and hope for the best, and legends like Rakim know that all too well.
https://djbooth.net/features/2016-07-18-rakim-turned-down-will-smith-summertime
yeah but he didn't go overboard with it..he used it to punctuate a point.. which is how profanity SHOULD be used. Many rappers of the last 25 years some pretty big named ones.. use and lean on profanity soo much it loses its effect.
After a while it starts to come off as limited vocabulary and ignorant. Will never NEEDED to lean on profanity and profane lyrical imagery to get his point across. And when he does use it theres a reason. He's punctuating something either lyrically or emotionally and you pick up on it more than with say 50cent because everything 50 does is on 10... his emotional range is always pegged to the extreme. When a rapper like will does it you go OH SHIT that meant something... makes for a deeper impact.
Thats LYRICISM..thats OLD SKOOL MCing
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Damn that was tight.
the flow was nice..pretty good bars will smith..you still got it!!
Song gets played on the radio every beginning of summer since it came out. Only song I know does that is Thriller on Halloween.
That
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Dope!
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Dope!
Ugly lyric right there
That's alpha mentality: Set your sights on a goal, conquer it and move on. But every once in awhile you go back to see if you can do it again. He has no other projects so why not step back in the booth?
Will Smith is the early rap days flavor, you know Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Fat Boys, so can't hate on him.
Gillie
You forgot the tump White house.
Truth or not.
No he didn't. It's 2018 and kats are still repeating that lie.
That story has been debunked for years. Read the story below: