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'Based on a True Story' - New Album drops March 28


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On 3/31/2025 at 6:05 AM, Hero1 said:

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

 

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. 

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On 3/31/2025 at 5:31 PM, fan 4ever said:

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

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.

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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.

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