nice spin
But if you're not from the era where rap was real, you wouldn't get OP's post.
Over-the-top smiling doesn't work for hip hop for two reasons
1) hip hop is about struggle and trying to overcome it. So over-the-top smiling implies you have zero struggle and if you have no struggle, the fukk you rapping for? Just go make pop or something
2) over-the-top smiling isn't real/genuine. And hip hop is concerned with what's authentic (even though 80% of its consumer base are frauds).
As Retch so eloquently put it:
"When the fukk did everybody get so friendly? I ain't never been that friendly. I aint never known the world to be that friendly. We aint all friends, my nikka...."
yeah, that shyt bothers me. Because you can tell it's aimed squarely at kids. It's the equivalent of anime fanservice