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seriously will is at his peak of writing ability on lost & found..switch was a party/rap song for the old school fans..but every other verse ive heard has just been amazing..hes really spent time working out these rhymes..he just hasnt put em together on a movie set or sumthin..quality!!

dude Jim j-lo cant sing seriously..she hasnt got a good voice at all..have you ever seen her sing live? no theres a reason 4 that... that said..that beat for her new single is hot! i love the horns.. at the moment im listening to opio - triangulation station and hall & oates covers album our kind of soul..bothe are really great albums :thumb:

maybe this is a verse from "why" :poke:

damn man every verse ive heard from lost and found is incredible..this is easily gonna be Wills best album ever..hes spitting knowledge!! Will now compared to 18 years ago..hes accomplished so much, so to get his thoughts on things and his life..this could be one of the best rap albums in years :werd:

hey Will was on 60 minutes here in australia tonight.. the interviewer said "you seem a very disciplined person" Will: I feel like self discipline is the center of everything. I had a rhyme, I have a rap thats on my album.. and then he went into the rap! heres the rhyme from Lost & Found he just ripped People ask me how i maintain the light in the spot When i walk to the stage its like a big fight It's all cheers no jeers I been giggin for years right here in front of you whatever you wanna do honey I'm like Sun Tzu you know how dun do war is an artform its me against me my mind is the only boundary from what i wanna be the key to life is on a treadmill I just watch and learn while your chest burns cause if you say you gonna run 3 miles and you run two I dont ever have to worry about losing at nothing to you

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just for you scy :kekeke: --------- :?uestlove: :bowdownslow: :inlove: :lovewrong: :madatya: :mad22: :hmmad: :julie: :jeffspeeditup: :kimmie: :ahonetwo: :jazzyinthehouse: :multibow:

Switch is heating up mimi!!! Big Will is in the area :wiggle:

yo every1 go here http://www.energy103.ca/ on the right new music preview click on vote now.. wills losing hes only 46% !! every1 vote we gotta make switch win this battle!

1985 2 artists with drive collide 20 years later still on one hell of a ride aint nothin changed but the names jazzy jeff and fresh prince to will smith here to reclaim platinum awards in frames their chemistry sparks the flames of hip hop these 2 will never let it burn out get together and classics is what they turn out they forward in the day ahead of the time albums pack freshness never a stale line emcee and a dj 2 lethal weapons when jeffs cuttin up with will mic in hand haters get to steppin west philly is where they're reppin giving these kids a true hip hop lesson developing skill improving with age create and display golden moments on stage so prepare for the 2nd no 3rd 4th or 5th coming forget it who's counting when fans are givin the dynamic duo lots of lovin like cl said but we all said aint the be all or end its just the start of somethin like dis dont sleep or you might miss JJFPs niceness lost and found march 29 alright kid

just feel the vibe that the jazz and the prince ride :kekeke: man i wish we could give one of the folks from here who lives in LA a chance to go to this..hey Will call me :call: :antlers:

wow now that you say that i gotta agree..that would be a dope track..wave em off!

also confirms the album cover :thumb:

damn man i wish you won!! it seems like will and jeff are gonna be doin a private performance for fans..maybe it will be a special on mtv or sumthin?

yep fantastic article :peace:

Staying fresh Will Smith has made it to No 1 in the leading man stakes, but now, he tells Angus Batey, the Fresh Prince is back to take his rap to new heights “I’m definitely starting from almost below zero,” chuckles the biggest movie star in the world. “My career is not even at the ground — it’s sort of subterranean!” And Will Smith laughs one of his mighty guffaws, part of the devastating charm offensive with which he has won over the globe’s cinemagoers. His new movie, the romantic comedy Hitch — on which he doubles as producer and lead actor — has become the first film of 2005 to take more than $100 million in the US, and may become the biggest rom-com in history. To help to ensure that it succeeds in Britain, Smith has flown in to attend not one, not two, but three premieres in a single day. So if he’s sounding downbeat about his career, it’s because Smith is referring to the job he did before Hollywood called, the job at which he was, by most reckonings, spectacularly good, too — being a rapper. And lately, that has not been going quite so well. “There was a point when I had to choose between rapping and acting,” the 36-year-old admits, sitting forward attentively in a suite at an upmarket Kensington hotel. “My new album addresses the idea that there’s a much greater rapper inside of me that doesn’t get to see the light of day too often.” His album — the first for three years — is called Lost and Found. The cover art shows Smith, head bowed, standing at a crossroads; one street sign reads “West Philly”, the predominantly black neighbourhood in which he grew up and became the Fresh Prince, the four-times Grammy-winning, platinum-selling rap star; the other points to “Hollywood”. So what, exactly, does he think he has lost on his journey? “The level of rapper that I could have been,” he says, for once seeming to struggle to find the right words. “And what I’ve found is . . . the new entertainer that raps. There’s a yin and a yang of all things — losing something is finding something. But you can get so pulled down by mourning the loss that you’re not discovering the find. I’ve found a new style of making records that’s conducive to my life. I have something to say. We’ll see if people want to hear it.” And just in case the thoughts, feelings and emotions of a movie icon aren’t interesting enough, Smith has an ace up his sleeve: a feud with the world’s biggest rap star. “I’ve got a song called Mr Nice Guy,” he reveals a little coyly of the new LP, “and in it I respond to a few people who have had negative things to say about me. Eminem said: ‘Will Smith don’t have to curse to sell records, but I do/ So if you’re a fan of his, then f*** you, and f*** him too.’ I never responded publicly, so I took this opportunity just to tell the truth of how that kind of stuff makes me feel.” He is reluctant to explain beyond this slight misquote from Eminem’s single The Real Slim Shady (2000), but Mr Nice Guy (like all but three songs from the new album) is not available to THE EYE as yet — “We’re still finishing it,” Smith chuckles a little apologetically — so, when pressed, he adds: “You know, I think it’s a real tragedy with me and him. I know that he admires me, and I admire him. But life has put us in a situation where we’re pitted against each other.” Either Smith is hyper-sensitive, or this astute student of entertainment trends is deliberately overreacting in the knowledge that, in hip-hop, beef sells. While Hitch has confirmed him as the highest-grossing leading man in Hollywood today, he is having to refute rumours that he was dropped from his previous record deal, and it has been a long time since a Smith album had fans running to the record shops. But just in case feuding doesn’t work, there is a plan B; and as with everything else in Smith’s life, it involves simple, honest graft. In a 1998 interview with Vibe magazine, he was quoted as saying that, if he set his mind to it and worked hard at it for maybe 15 years, he saw no reason why he should not become US president. He also revealed how, as a child, he had watched his father, a refrigeration installation engineer, reach down into inches of gunk on a supermarket storeroom floor, pick up a dead rat with his bare hands, fling it away and then get down on that same piece of floor to do his job. The work ethic he has inherited explains why now, at the peak of his movie popularity, he is determined to take a break to concentrate on re-establishing himself as a rapper. “I never feel like I am where I’m going,” he continues, trying to explain his unquenchable ambition. “To me it’s . . .” He pauses, searching for a metaphor before hitting upon a sport he is also known to work hard at. “It’s like golf. You never actually win. Whatever you shoot, now you need to shoot one better in your next round. So that is my mind-set, in the attack on music and film and entertainment in general.” And some attack it has been. Hitch’s success, and that of last year’s intelligent sci-fi thriller I, Robot, merely cemented Smith’s position as Hollywood’s most bankable star. He broke in to cinema’s mainstream in 1995 alongside Martin Lawrence in the cop buddy movie Bad Boys, and he credits Lawrence, who came to acting via stand-up comedy, with helping him find a collaborative style of working. “In the world of comedy, most people don’t want the other person to score,” he explains, a smile dancing about his face. “You’ve got to take the jokes, and you’ve got to win. And I learnt early, with Martin, the nature of giving. With me and Martin we were arguing about the other person taking a line! ‘No Martin, it’ll be so much funnier if you say it!’ ‘Nah Will, how you deliver it . . .’ That type of freedom, and giving, is what creates the winning environment. It was the same with Kevin James and Eva Mendes (on Hitch). We just wanna be in a great scene, whoever makes it.” Smith, who turned down a place at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology to concentrate on his rapping, followed up Bad Boys with two sci-fi hits: Independence Day (1996) and Men in Black (1997). On both a personal and professional roll, he married the actress Jada Pinkett on New Year’s Eve, 1997, and while Wild Wild West (1998) received a critical panning, it still grossed more than $110 million in American cinemas alone. Many other rap stars have decided that their on-record role-playing can also work in front of a camera but, with few exceptions (Mos Def, Ice Cube), they tend to get stuck in movies that Hollywood believes will play well to a hip-hop audience. Rather than settle for being an action hero, Smith worked on expanding his range. He played a yuppie lawyer enmeshed in a high-tech conspiracy in Enemy of the State and an enigmatic golf caddy in The Legend of Bagger Vance. He portrayed Muhammad Ali in Michael Mann’s 2001 biopic at the request of Ali himself, and spent 18 months learning to box, risking injury by sparring with real heavyweights. For his pains he received an Oscar nomination. And Smith already had years of practice on the small screen behind him. He had first appeared on TV as the Fresh Prince in a series of brightly coloured music videos alongside DJ Jazzy Jeff. The duo came together as teenagers in the mid-1980s and enjoyed a string of huge hits, purveying a populist style of rap that provided a non-threatening, PG-rated alternative to the gangsta machismo of NWA or the political activism of Public Enemy. Often unjustly derided for his raps’ lighter subject matter, Smith proved that he had writing skills easily the equal of his more lauded peers. In songs such as Parents Just Don’t Understand — which won the pair the first rap Grammy — Smith spun irresistible yarns of middle-class teenage rebellion in a style full of cocky but instantly likeable cheek. Those fans and critics who found his style and material “soft” missed the point: in a genre obsessed with its artists authentically representing the realities of their lives, Smith was, very often, the only major rap star “keepin’ it real”; it was just that his middle-class reality did not involve drugs, gunplay and gangs. Smith transferred this on-record persona to the small screen in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show’s six series about a working-class kid growing up with rich Beverly Hills relatives are still being endlessly repeated, and with good reason: everything that audiences love about Smith today can be seen in them. So when people tell him that they are intrigued to see him playing the lead in a rom-com, as he does for the first time on the big screen in Hitch, he is surprised. “I always thought of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as a romantic comedy,” he shrugs. “Most of the episodes are about finding a girl, and falling in love. Playing in those scenes felt like going home more than going somewhere new.” Crucially, Smith has managed the trick pulled off only by a select few black entertainers: crossing over to a mainstream, predominantly white, audience without compromising himself creatively or culturally. It is tempting to hypothesise that he learnt how to switch easily between black and white America as a teen. He spent time in a Catholic school in a white neighbourhood before transferring to Overbrook High in West Philadelphia, where he grew up the second of four children born to Willard Sr and Caroline, a high school administrator. Smith has transferred the essence of himself into his art; in person he is every inch the wisecracking, easygoing, affable individual he plays on screen or in song. He studied the careers of TV actors who had made it big in Hollywood — Tom Hanks, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy — with a view to becoming the biggest movie star in the world. And with that goal now achieved, he is refocusing his attention on music. “The difference is that the music has got to be generated by what I think and what I feel. Whereas you can choose a script, you can’t choose the type of records you make. I’ve always made the records as they come to me, and it’s always got to be about me. It’s more difficult not having Steven Spielberg to produce it, or not having Michael Mann to direct; not sitting across in the scene from Tommy Lee Jones; being out there by myself. But I write all the lyrics, I make up all the songs, so it’s about me, it’s what I feel, which means that it’s much easier to be on a record.” Which is another good reason why you wouldn’t bet against the world’s biggest movie star regaining his place among pop’s elite. Hitch is released nationwide on Friday. Smith’s new single, Switch, is released on Mar 21, and the album, Lost and Found, a week later. Both are on his own Overbrook Entertainment label, distributed by Interscope http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/pri...3-14411,00.html

yo ive seen switch 3 times in the last few hours on tv... switch is no #4 on the hip hop/rnb music video channel here in australia Club V :thumb:

wow if he can just get in the top 10..then it will show up on the main itunes page when ppl first load the store..and then it will do even better

now some1 tell me what the hell elephant man is saying..so far all ive worked out is "everybody dance the switch"

switch reggae remix :switch:

listen to the radio :thumb:

http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/interscope...itch_reggae.asx thats the direct link..put that in windows media player

yo that is dope!! i like it..love the new beat :switch:

great work Joe! :bowdown:

keep doin that and you will be banned :werd: