Will Smith Quotes

[WildWildWillennium]

AJ originally posted these on the old Columbia Will Smith board, and I just happened 2 save them when he posted it back then, and found them on my computer now. These are quotes from Will, and quotes from Jeff speaking about Will from various magazines.

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"My strength is that I can feel people; I know what the marketplace is ready for. I waas ready to write my last album (Big Willie Style) years ago, but not until the tragic loss of Tupac and Notrious B.I.G. did i feel it was time. I felt an opening, a desire for change from the darkness of rap music in general. When I heard Tupc, then Biggie, got killed, i said, "This $#!+ is too much for people to by dying because of it." Fresh Prince - Rolling Stone '98

"Nothing like being onstage with a record the entire audience knows. I'm not going with twenty dancers. I'm doing it old-school style, old-school hip-hop. A DJ with two turntables, and me with a microphone. The important thing about being onstage is sharing joy. And i have more joy in my life now than i've ever had, which means i'll have that much more to share with an audience." Fresh Prince - Rolling Stone '98

"When Jazzy Jeff, visiting the film's (Enemy of the State) location in Washinton, D.C., beat him at video football, Smith spent every spare moment for the next three weeks gunning for a rematch, studying the game endlessly. "He knew every play, every trick," Jazzy Jeff says. "And then he came up to Philly, just to beat me. But that's Will. That has always been Will." DJ Jazzy Jeff - Premiere '98

"Rappers like to talk about keepin' it real, you know? But it's like, N!gg@, no you ain't! If you take all of the past five years of gangsta rap records, there's no way that those recrods are indicative of the lifestyle that those people lead every day. Every last one of them n!gg@s has cried in the last five years about something. A'ight? And if it ain't in your record, you ain't keepin' it real, you know what i'm sayin'? To me, that whole keepin it real concept is hypocritial bull$#!+" Fresh Prince - Vibe '98

"When I think of gangsta rap, i think of people who think they're doing what Tupac and Biggie were doing, but intellectually, spiritually, they're fallin' short of the mark." Fresh Prince - Vibe '98

"Everything Jazzy Jeff + Fresh Prince made, from the time we stared rapping, people said 'that's corny' and 'they make music for white people.' It's always been that way, and i don't have a problem with that. People aren't getting killed with the type of music i make." Fresh Prince - Rap Sheet '97

"Will hasn't changed one bit since high school. The only difference i can think of is he used to moon people a lot. I havn't seen him do that in a few years. But he'll still call my studio and disguise his voice like Michael Jackson." DJ Jazzy Jeff - People '99

"Lyric for lyric, ain't alot of people that can touch me" Fresh Prince - The Source '97

"The mistake people make is coming hard to battle me. If you attack me hard, i'ma rip you with comedy. The crowd always responds to comedy. You can't be hard enough to beat somebody who's gonna say funny stuff, freestyling, off the top of his head about things you're wearing, how your face looks. You know, all that type of stuff. You can't beat comedy. You can't win." Fresh Prince - The Source '97

"You can't write good records if you're not smart. And on 85 to 90% of the rap records that you hear, it's just ignorant n!gg@s." Fresh Prince - The Source '97

"And i know i'm good. It's something i've done my whole life. I don't have to make records to make money. I make records 'cause i love doin' it." Fresh Prince - The Source '97

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AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!