The charismatic rapper-turned-actor comes home with a project befitting his pop status. It's probably asking too much for a movie box-office draw to record anything too far...
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The charismatic rapper-turned-actor comes home with a project befitting his pop status. It's probably asking too much for a movie box-office draw to record anything too far...
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Will Smith wisely decided not to change his style too much on Big Willie Style, the first record he released since becoming a major movie star with appearances in...
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Willennium 11/16/1999, Yahoo! Music, Billy Johnson Jr
All pop-hop artists do the same thing. They sell millions of records, and when they are ousted from the hip-hop community for getting too jiggy, they come back,...
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By the time Will Smith released Willennium in November 1999, it was fashionable to put him down, especially since he was recovering from his first major stumble, the...
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Interesting that Nelly and Will Smith are releasing new albums on the same day, since Nelly's just offering an updated version of the pop-rap Smith pioneered a decade and a...
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In retrospect, the point at which Will Smith went too far was with 1999's "Freakin' It," on which, over samples from "Love Hangover" and "Rapper's Delight," he boasted of...
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It'd be inaccurate to call Will Smith's third album the musical equivalent of Ali -- a bid for artistic credibility from an artist so assured and smooth, it's been easy to...
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You can't help but respect Will Smith for continuing to make Will Smith albums -- street cred be damned -- and maintaining a semi-frequent release schedule, despite his more...
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