CinisterCee said:

Naw. I like his early stuff alright.

CinisterCee said:

Hell naw! Why has no one else brought up his Fresh Prince years? The show was great and the records were classic.

JackieBlue said:

I like that song too and pump ya breaks feat. snoop dog! they should release it as a single.

I really thought they were gonna release the Snoop Dogg or the MJB one to capitalize on their appearance but I heard he was doing a video for one of the other songs--I think it was If You Can't Dance. Swagga would have been a good single too. Actually I forgot Timbaland produced on there but surely nothing along the lines of a Headsprung.

JackieBlue said:

if you can't dance is too bubble gum in my opinion, i wish they'd release pump ya breaks or swagga. even "nice guy" would be cool but i doubt it.

Moonbeam said:

that's cool. everyone is entitled to their own opinion but it seems like a lot of people don't like him because he's not gangsta enough or at all for that matter.

dancerella said:

Not here. I can't stand most gangsta rap either. I like rap when it is innovative and funky.

Moonbeam said:

What's that spose ta mean?

TRON said:

Answer me, BAWB!!!

CinisterCee said:

no way, those rock! it's just that many like myself don't bother to click on Will Smith threads these days.... you kinda know what to expect

"He's the DJ, I'm the rapper" was a blast back then, and it's still an early Hip Hop classic, even though it sounds kinda dated today

Basically all of Will Smith's songs are heavily sampled off something else and his lyrics are almost exclusively about himself. But I stil love him.

MrSquiggle said:

while on the other hand other rappers always compose new music competetly from scratch, and never even rap about themselves during, their entire career. that pattern started already with "Rappers Delight" in 1979 and has been strict law in Hip Hop ever since

Dancelot said:

Yeah but Will sounds like he actually means the ego thing he goes on and on and on about. Hip-hop samples, sure, but listen to "Miami" and whatever song it came off of.

I like this recent stuff from Jeff on the independent BBE-label

And in this movie , Will did okay ( imo )


For the rest , " Summertime " i liked as a nice summerjam ,
but his rhyme skills never got me like " Wow ! " or somethin'.
Was that final-vote for best pop-rock act a public-choice ? .
If so , it could have been because he's more in the spotlights as an actor .
But definitely not for his rapping . There are much more talented rhymers over there ...
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twink69 said:

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Because the whole thing is a total fraud. I honestly think it is something that
the music industry throws on to try and pump up record sales.

This awards show had the worst ratings in the history of the AMA.

laurarichardson said:

I totally agree. The show was awful. I wanted to see the greats like Santana and the Stones, but I fell asleep.

Moonbeam said:

But at least the Fresh Prince writes his own rhymes, which is something you can't say for P. Diddy. Does that count for something?

dancerella said:

Some of us have been around black people all of our lives. We tend not to have low expectations of blacks. So no Will doesn't get cool points for acting like he's supposed to. He's still a below average rapper.

"Still"?

Novabreaker said:

Don't front.