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I love this. I don’t know if everyone will agree with me but I think his team have done a great job promoting this album on social media. He used to go on shows like TRL to promote it but the world is so different now. They know what people like, going viral with the anxiety video because they know everyone loves Fresh Prince, joining influencers on videos and doing stuff like this. It’s just seems to be getting bigger and although he’s getting a lot of hate still. I can see a lot more positive comments and love, particularly on this barbershop video. It was a good move.

I’m so glad he put this out and that it fits easily with the time length and style of reels/tiktok. The more this kind of flow gets promotion the more I hope he leans in to these types of songs.

You quoting it is exactly what I came here to say. The 20 of us or so who ate up every “freestyle” post Lost and Found became, shall I say, a bit disenchanted knowing he wasn’t turning over a new record. I had to shake my cynicism and say: (a) yes, this is likely a track he wrote, (b) it could be on the cutting room floor or repurposed but (c) he’s not done producing new music this year so I can just relax and enjoy. definitely high quality verses for sure even if something he had in the hopper already.

That was really good

Very good job man

Whoa, that intro was straight up Childish Gambino. I liked it though.

O this is amazing

I love that you still do this. I like that this sounds more warm and colorful in contrast to the album version.

This is hilarious!

Great review of the album! Just one correction in this. You mentioned that he had played “attention” off of his phone in another part of that twitch stream, but that’s not actually accurate. He played “bulletproof” off of his phone on the stream, but before that he chose a beat out of a pool of 15 or so, and then went into the booth and rapped “attention” over it. He ended up doing it twice all the way through, with a few other attempts that the streamer bungled in between. But when they were playing it back in the other room they were just playing back the recording that they had just made in the booth.

Having 'Make It Look Easy' on repeat. Can't stop playing it! Such a nice, positive and catchy song

Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/will-smith-based-on-a-true-story-review-1235307144/ (Spoiler: they don't like it)

Sounds like the second album is gonna have some hard hitting hip hop!

Hey Vipa I like that it is more of a hip hop beat I just don't think it changes up enough for the chorus.

That “freestyle” is good! He needs to put stuff like this on the next album.

As if Will is coming out with the best stuff of his career at age 56. He’s got more charisma in this than every modern rapper put together. As a fan, we know he’s awesome but this even has me shocked how good it is.

This is fire!!

Barbershop is great, that feels like old school jjfp and I’m here for it. The entire album hits for me, for sure. But Rave in the Wasteland is my current favorite, it just takes me over when it comes on.

Listen to our thoughts on the album in the latest episode of the Will Smith Podcast:

Yea i still do this lol. At this point its just a Demo, still finalizing the mix and elements. just wanted to post it for some early opinions. I was thinking of doing the entire album but that's an idea for another day.

I bought it on Amazon. Explicit version: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1JGN9DL/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1P9EPHL903HSW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eNt701T1MQ-VRlalDIciSUistiG6QfVD6ayObaPKyM3Q2WPMOnBsLNUh2nKff9Fa2aVnwC7OxcYdEfP2kxFH3C0k_khnnaIniC8nrTJ0XICI5gzd71ybsoA4I7pKxuUOalniZbDQ97H_5oe6pSwt8OphNcHCqcecVMVqz1HR-Ji4jApc8I1w79EbNtI3WrdBiN73y4roGUJZOx-jKrUIPbpYI-wHyD0ukZ0DGlFJbJmyAhAN0fM-xtJp2jIIJbGZFP_yTu_B_jzKFxnQ-bQN9zvPmfw_4I2PrVE99x686ps.VIkE3o3ELFyguE1uZHvixICl7zP77I-QWW5GyMFFbFE&dib_tag=se&keywords=will+smith+based+on+a+true+story&qid=1743395806&s=dmusic&sprefix=will+smith+based+on+a+true+story%2Cdigital-music%2C123&sr=1-2 Edited version: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1JSKW2J/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1P9EPHL903HSW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eNt701T1MQ-VRlalDIciSUistiG6QfVD6ayObaPKyM3Q2WPMOnBsLNUh2nKff9Fa2aVnwC7OxcYdEfP2kxFH3C0k_khnnaIniC8nrTJ0XICI5gzd71ybsoA4I7pKxuUOalniZbDQ97H_5oe6pSwt8OphNcHCqcecVMVqz1HR-JgEpH4w_qqynFaICio543iOYmaDg_dCE7DSOAgzlkBuTIUS6KO116IV-a-RpNB8uj2yAhAN0fM-xtJp2jIIJbGZFP_yTu_B_jzKFxnQ-bQN9zvPmfw_4I2PrVE99x686ps.-dmn8Mz9Jo6e_SIYTAy63Iol1i_CMJSgALmvObF_1DM&dib_tag=se&keywords=will+smith+based+on+a+true+story&qid=1743395839&s=dmusic&sprefix=will+smith+based+on+a+true+story%2Cdigital-music%2C123&sr=1-1

This is a hard one, but at the moment I think I would rank his solo albums as follows: 1. Big Willie Style 2. Willennium 3. Based on a True Story 4. Lost & Found 5. Born To Reign

Another great interview: