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Will Smith: Lost and Found

Posted in Music by Elliott Back on September 18th, 2005.

I don’t know why Will Smith keeps trying to make rap music. Take a look at the lyrics of the first track off his new album, Lost and Found, called Mr. Nice Guy:

[He's a nice guy] How you doing!
[He's a nice guy] Nice to see you!
[He's a nice guy] How’s your mama now?

[verse 1 - Will Smith]
Mr. Niceguy, relationship advice guy
Life on the xxx is priceless.

Now look at my eyes,
got the look of a survivor, husband, father.

Dissed by Eminem, but did it bother him?
Yup, but he classy. Big Will just get another 20 mil.
Walk right past he, I’m a nice guy, why you all harassing me, huh?

On the radio, they be overexaggerating.
So blase with their lies, they be aggrevating me,
agitating me, when they be rating and hating me.
They be making me crazy, but I be taking it patiently.

People be messing with me, testing me, f-ing with me,
I wanna send a message to em. Teach them a lesson quickly,
they publicly addressing me, disrespecting me heavily.
They better be xxx the way my blessing affecting me.

But [deep breath] calm down Willy,
You don’t wanna go drop the bomb now Willy,
Keep a nice flow for your mom down in Philly.
On the news you go if you get down and ask silly.

There’s no grammer, the rhymes are as if he were in 8th grade and looked them up in a rhyming dictionary to find his next line of poetry, and content? Where is the content!

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    It IS rap, isn't it? Grammar, content--those are foreign to rappers. C'mon Back!
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    How about this, then, from Talib Kweli:

    Got searched on the plane, Arabic first name
    Disturbed by the fame just like Kurt Cobain
    Breath of life, kiss of death, my lips pursed the same
    You flirt 'til she came


    It's almost as good as Dylan Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night," eh?
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    WHAT IS WTONG WITH YOU ALL WHAT KIND OF GRAMMAR ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?! MUSICIANS ARE MUSICIANS NOT HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHERS HOW ABOUT YOU GUYS USE PROPER CITATION WHEN QUOTING OR AT LEAST GET ACCURATE LYRICS.....BECAUSE REALLY...THOSE "NICEGUY" LYRICS ARE ALL OFF NOT TO MENTION THAT ISNT EVEN THE FIRST SONG ON THE ALBUM, AND HAVE YOU BOTHERED LISTENING TO ANY OTHER SONGS OR WOULD YOUR HEAD HURT FROM HEARING ALL THAT HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE GRAMMAR? RAP MUSIC WHEN IT IS NOT FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF MAKING MONEY IS SOME OF THE MOST CREATIVE WORKS OF ART PERIOD GIVE IT ITS DUE CREDIT AND READ BETWEEN THE LINES.....OR IS THAT NOT GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT ?
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    Why you dissing Will Smith? He's the best real rapper out there, so don't go dissing him because if you're dissing him you're dissing all his fans. And that is rap!
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    It's called Hip-Hop.
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    I just wish people would leave Will alone and let him do his thing, they remind me of little kids, who hate to see the other with something. If I may remind everyone that Will was once one of the most well known rappers when rap was decent and informative but now as rap has been transformed slowly over the years into senseless lyrics that really don't help young people, only fill their minds with the wrong ideas. The real reason people keep hating on Will is simply because he doesn't create the kind of warped rap that floods the world today.
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    Although I am not a Will Smith fan I am a mother and I am glad that my girls can listen to Big Willy even when I am not around. I don't have to regulate his raps. With new genres of rap including "crack rap" we need Will Smith to cake it up a bit. As some one rising from the streets as Will did I like to reflect on my surroundings by listening to "gangsta" rap because it is real and what I see. It reminds me that even when the streets are quiet, something serious is lurking, churning, in the minds of have nots. My kids are innocent and don't understand. They are like some people from the outskirts who claim to be from Chicago but are like, in the suburbs. It is goofy to them which it should be. It's not there reality. Will Smith is an outlet for people like that. It's sort of stress free.
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    Although I am not a Will Smith fan I am a mother and I am glad that my girls can listen to Big Willy even when I am not around. I don't have to regulate his raps. With new genres of rap including "crack rap" we need Will Smith to cake it up a bit. As some one rising from the streets as Will did I like to reflect on my surroundings by listening to "gangsta" rap because it is real and what I see. It reminds me that even when the streets are quiet, something serious is lurking, churning, in the minds of have nots. My kids are innocent and don't understand. They are like some people from the outskirts who claim to be from Chicago but are like, in the suburbs. It is goofy to them which it should be. It's not there reality. Will Smith is an outlet for people like that. It's sort of stress free.
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    Although I am not a Will Smith fan I am a mother and I am glad that my girls can listen to Big Willy even when I am not around. I don't have to regulate his raps. With new genres of rap including "crack rap" we need Will Smith to cake it up a bit. As some one rising from the streets as Will did I like to reflect on my surroundings by listening to "gangsta" rap because it is real and what I see. It reminds me that even when the streets are quiet, something serious is lurking, churning, in the minds of have nots. My kids are innocent and don't understand. They are like some people from the outskirts who claim to be from Chicago but are like, in the suburbs. It is goofy to them which it should be. It's not there reality. Will Smith is an outlet for people like that. It's sort of stress free.
 

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