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This is a solid album. Bulletproof is an absolute banger.  Tantrum, too. I also really like Rave, Scars, Hard Times, and You Can Make It... The intro is mildly amusing, but for me, it’s a track to experience as part of the full album rather than something I’d play on its own. That said—unlike most on this forum—I actually like First Love.
Overall, I’m really enjoying this more aggressive, direct evolution of WS's music… and I’m about to cue up Bulletproof again! For me this is WS’s best release since Willennium.  It's obviously very different, but it reflects well where he is in life—just as that album did.  It's grown up and gritty.

This is a solid album. Bulletproof is an absolute banger.  Tantrum, too. I also really like Rave, Scars, Hard Times, and You Can Make It... The intro is mildly amusing, but for me, it’s a track to experience as part of the full album rather than something I’d play on its own. That said—unlike most on this forum—I actually like First Love.
Overall, I’m really enjoying this more aggressive, direct evolution of WS's music… and I’m about to cue up Bulletproof again! For me this is WS’s best release since Willennium.  It's obviously very different, but it reflects well where he is in life—just as that album did.  It's grown up and gritty.

This is a solid album. Bulletproof is an absolute banger.  Tantrum, too. I also really like Rave, Scars, Hard Times, and You Can Make It... The intro is mildly amusing, but for me, it’s a track to experience as part of the full album rather than something I’d play on its own. That said—unlike most on this forum—I actually like First Love.
Overall, I’m really enjoying this more aggressive, direct evolution of WS's music… and I’m about to cue up Bulletproof again! For me this is WS’s best release since Willennium.  It's obviously very different, but it reflects well where he is in life—just as that album did.  It's grown up and gritty.

This is a solid album. Bulletproof is an absolute banger.  Tantrum, too. I also really like Rave, Scars, Hard Times, and You Can Make It... The intro is mildly amusing, but for me, it’s a track to experience as part of the full album rather than something I’d play on its own. That said—unlike most on this forum—I actually like First Love.
Overall, I’m really enjoying this more aggressive, direct evolution of WS's music… and I’m about to cue up Bulletproof again! For me this is WS’s best release since Willennium.  It's obviously very different, but it reflects well where he is in life—just as that album did.  It's grown up and gritty.

That’s because my interests are still the same!  Good to see you again, been a while. Hopefully the new music will get this place poppin again!

I've always loved his more forceful verses (I'm Comin', Born to Reign), so it's great to see him embracing this.
This series of albums backed up with a world tour is news that I didn't see coming.
What amazes me most, though, is logging in after all these years to see such familiar usernames reappearing on these threads - people I remember from when I first began visiting this community in 2001.  A lot has changed since then, yet this place still feels much the same. Fantastic.
It's great to see the likes of fan 4ever (and that his interests are still "hip-hop, tennis, and my girl"), now where are 3cookies, enjoy_summertime, and the rest of the BBS crew!

I've always loved his more forceful verses (I'm Comin', Born to Reign), so it's great to see him embracing this.
This series of albums backed up with a world tour is news that I didn't see coming.
What amazes me most, though, is logging in after all these years to see such familiar usernames reappearing on these threads - people I remember from when I first began visiting this community in 2001.  A lot has changed since then, yet this place still feels much the same. Fantastic.
It's great to see the likes of fan 4ever (and that his interests are still "hip-hop, tennis, and my girl"), now where are 3cookies, enjoy_summertime, and the rest of the BBS crew!

I just ordered Tickets for his show in Frankfurt in July. Never thought that day would come.

Hey guys, just thought you'd like to celebrate my one year anniversary on the JJFP board!
 

That's hilarious!

Nah, just sounds like he wants to monetise the situation by selling his story.

That reminds me. I need to make an account with the lil Wayne forum to tell them all his music sucks. 

Well, if nothing else, it’s brought us all back together again!  I remember when I first joined the board over 20 years ago, Ali was being released.  On the old Sony willsmith.net BBS there was a lot of hype amongst the Willennium-era fans that the role could land Will Smith his first Oscar.  Of course it wasn’t to be, and nor were various future film roles that seemed sometimes almost deliberately chosen by WS to try and achieve his desired yet elusive Oscar success.  In the end I (and probably most of you) got a bit bored of that endless pursuit.  The irony, then, is that something that WS has worked fairly relentlessly for over 20 years or more to obtain - and which he should now be able to consider one of the greatest achievements of his life - will now forever be tainted in his mind and ours by the Chris Rock debacle.  And he had his mother and other friends/family watching the whole spectacle from home as he came to pieces before them in the most public of environments.  I don’t entirely know what I feel about the incident - I don’t necessarily disrespect it, but it’s confusing to process, which leads me to wonder if there’s not some sort of recent undercurrent between the two that we are unaware of.  What is clear though are the following points.  Chris was completely wrong to make these insensitive remarks about WS’s wife and her health, and he should never have made them before the world on that stage.  WS’s temper flashed and I’ll bet he didn’t entirely know what he’d done until after he did it.  Perhaps his ability to handle such situations is changing with age.  He is entirely right to stand up for her, but he is entirely wrong to do it in the manner that he did.  I’m sad for him because what should have been one of the true high points of his career will now forever be connected to an ugly low.  He will have to live with that.  It’s one thing to defend your family, but he should left the public swinging behind in the Ali days, 20 years ago. And Jaden’s “And that’s how we do it” Twitter remark isn’t exactly a good look for the family either.

Let us now move on to things that actually matter in our own lives.