[brapper]

is awesome. I think that he's a class act and great guy. Smart and talented.
Good for him.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8B0ATRO0.html

[Albert Pujols]

Originally Posted by brapper

is awesome. I think that he's a class act and great guy. Smart and talented.
Good for him.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8B0ATRO0.html

[Jasoco]

As much as I like Will Smith, I really wish LESS Rappers would be role models. LESS. Please. There's too many posers and playa's already. If I hear the word "Bling" one more time, I'm going to jump off this bridge right here. The one I just made up.

Edit: Sorry if that sounded a little bad.

[MrForgetable]

Originally Posted by Jasoco

As much as I like Will Smith, I really wish LESS Rappers would be role models. LESS. Please. There's too many posers and playa's already. If I hear the word "Bling" one more time, I'm going to jump off this bridge right here. The one I just made up.

Edit: Sorry if that sounded a little bad.

bling.


will smith is awesome

[Randman]

I like that he let himself be made fun (and played a part in it) in Jersey Girl.

[Jasoco]

Yes. Yes he is. I'm actually surprised he wasn't picked for War of the Worlds.

[Superchicken]

I don't like him much... but I like him a LOT more than most black rappers. I would have more respect for the whole rap scene if more of them were like will... then it'd only have as much contempt from me as hiphop does. Honestly I just wish people would stop singing exclusively about sex or violence, and start singing about things that require more thought. That's why I like the music I listen to. It's about life, it's about aspects of relationships that aren't just physical attraction or immature misconceptions of love and so on.

Sadly most of the bands I like will never make it big because they're not dumbed down enough for mass consumption.

[Randman]

I wonder of DJ Jazzy Jeff cries himself to sleep every night wondering what happened.

[Cubeoid]

Don't hate the playa..hate the game.

[Captain Obvious]

"What I'm trying to present and what a lot of other artists are presenting is a different approach to survival and a more sound approach to survival. It's a more long-term approach based on intellect and skills that can't be taken away from you: The smartest dude survives the best."

That won't sell records.
Will should have called P-ditty on stage and bitch slapped him. That would have made the rest of the audience listen.

[Albert Pujols]

Originally Posted by Randman

I wonder of DJ Jazzy Jeff cries himself to sleep every night wondering what happened.

I think he went on to be a successful producer.

[RGB]

The guy is just so smooth. If only I could be like him...

*sigh*

[Cubeoid]

"so" smooth is ok.. but you can't beat the BIG smooth..

[DeathMan]

Originally Posted by Jasoco

As much as I like Will Smith, I really wish LESS Rappers would be role models. LESS. Please. There's too many posers and playa's already. If I hear the word "Bling" one more time, I'm going to jump off this bridge right here. The one I just made up.

Edit: Sorry if that sounded a little bad.

The correct word would be FEWER, just thought you might want to know. Less milk, fewer rappers.

I like Will Smith. Not so much as an actor (he's okay though) but just as a person. He seems to have his head on straight. I saw a Biography on him. I'm glad he's speaking up about the thug thing.

Is Outkast thuggish? What I've heard they're not.

[JoshuaZ]

Will Smith...... is the same damn character in every film.

Really, he is. Think about it.

[DeathMan]

Originally Posted by JoshuaZ

Will Smith...... is the same damn character in every film.

Really, he is. Think about it.

Have you seen Hitch?

[RGB]

Originally Posted by JoshuaZ

Will Smith...... is the same damn character in every film.

Really, he is. Think about it.

He does a great job of playing himself in almost every movie he does, but he did an impressive job of portraying Muhammad Ali in Ali a few years back.

[Big Mac]

Originally Posted by Superchicken

I don't like him much... but I like him a LOT more than most black rappers. I would have more respect for the whole rap scene if more of them were like will...

I'm not black but I can see how that comment could easily be construed as offensive. If only the rest of them could be "like him." You probably did not intend the post to read this way, but it comes off with a tinge of closeted bigotry. There is, IMO, an excessive utilization and glorification of sex and violence in most rap videos, but I doubt I would ever make the statement that the genre should be toned down or homogenized. (Granted, the intensity of the rap industry should have been brought several notches down during the '90s coast wars, but it eventually was.) You've got to give props to guys like 50, do you not?

[ajprice]

Originally Posted by Jasoco
Yes. Yes he is. I'm actually surprised he wasn't picked for War of the Worlds.

Go and watch Independence Day

[ManOfSteal]

Originally Posted by Cubeoid

"so" smooth is ok.. but you can't beat the BIG smooth...

Tell Robert Horry that...

[lavar78]

Originally Posted by Superchicken

I don't like him much... but I like him a LOT more than most black rappers. I would have more respect for the whole rap scene if more of them were like will... then it'd only have as much contempt from me as hiphop does. Honestly I just wish people would stop singing exclusively about sex or violence, and start singing about things that require more thought. That's why I like the music I listen to. It's about life, it's about aspects of relationships that aren't just physical attraction or immature misconceptions of love and so on.

This comment is so inane I just had to quote it. I don't really have the energy to comment on it right now, but I just wanted people to read it again.

[brapper]

Originally Posted by lavar78

This comment is so inane I just had to quote it. I don't really have the energy to comment on it right now, but I just wanted people to read it again.

read it again? I'm still trying to unravel it for the first time...
What I have picked out so far is that he loves Eminem. Though I could be off...

[MacNStein]

Originally Posted by JoshuaZ

Will Smith...... is the same damn character in every film.

Really, he is. Think about it.

Watch "6 Degrees of Seperation" and get back to us on that statement.

[Randman]

Originally Posted by JoshuaZ

Will Smith...... is the same damn character in every film.

Really, he is. Think about it.

Thought about it. You're wrong. Almost every film but not all.

[Eug Wanker]

Personally I think his request will be shunned, just like Cosby's request that black comedians don't swear was ridiculed.

[rjenkinson]

whoops.

-r.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by Cubeoid

Don't hate the playa..hate the game.

Unfortunately, most of the players perpetuate the game instead of trying to escape it. Institutionalizing "the game" through glorifying it simply reinforces it. If more of the "players" would focus in their work on getting OUT of that social environment, about rejecting the norms of violence, drug use and mutual oppression, more kids would see that there IS a way out, and the "game" would go out of style...Isn't that what the Rev. Martin Luther King's message was all about? Trying to change, rejecting other people's ideas of who you are and what you can do? Breaking out of stereotypes? Geeze! The insanity stops when kids start seeing a way out, and they won't until their heroes and role models accept and acknowledge that getting out of such a negative situation is not only desirable but possible.

[ajprice]

Originally Posted by Cubeoid
Don't hate the playa..hate the game.

Yeah ok, I can do that!

[Apple Pro Underwear]

Will Smith as an actor:

LOOK AT ME! I AM SO COOL. NO MATTER WHAT THE PLOT IS ABOUT, IT'S NOW ABOUT BIG WILLY STYLE! WHEEEEEE

[KeriVit]

Will Smith is an awesome man.