Will Smith hated that he wasn't what Tupac was

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This is the story of my life

Was raised by the block and was neck deep but knew better than to get too dirty.

Knew that blasting on niqqas and moving dope was certain doom.

So there was times when I had to back down and take Ls. Cause to win would mean to go to jail forever or to get got later by their shooters.

All these years later all the "Pacs" from my hood are long dead or just getting out of prison.

So Pac is cool and all but he had to die before he was even fully an adult.

So I'm okay being a square or whatever
 

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In a weird way, I think I understand what he’s doing. He’s trying demonstrate what it truly means to be free in this society. Not trying to sound existential but imagine being in a place where you can literally say eff it and say everything that you’ve ever bottled up and share that without care of judgement. The stuff that Will is talking about is not something people don’t get or understand. We all get it. It’s just most of us wouldn’t reveal it bc of how others will judge us or how we perceive we would like to others by admitting we are envious, jealous and have failures. Most people hide their failures. Most try not to be vulnerable. Most wish they could literally shed the weight of the masks they wear every single day interacting with different groups of people. I don’t always agree with what the Smiths say but I think I understand what they are doing. They are removing all the weight that comes with being them. If you’ve watched Will for awhile from all of his interviews and his YouTube videos you could see this was germinating for awhile. All of his expectations and weight he felt to carry as a black man and the world top actor has changed as he’s grown. He’s in a place where he’s life screw what everybody else thinks. I’m gonna be me, not the version people want to see. The real me. It’s real freedom.

that’s my thoughts. Based on peoples reactions and commentary about him, you could see how society tries to box you in and even in honesty they judge you and clown your for it.

Yeah, I don't know what people don't understand about this. He wrote a memoir. It's supposed to reveal things you never knew about him. One of the biggest movie stars to ever live suffers from these insecurities and imperfections. We've all been there, but because Will Smith is a mega star with millions of dollars and everything he could ever want in life, we expect him not to deal with these things and our first reaction is to tell him to shut the fukk up about it so we don’t have to hear it. It kills the celebrity image that was built up in our heads.

It's happening just like I predicted. The memoir comes out, and the information leaves people disgusted because Will bleeds like they bleed. It's to the point where I just want someone to read the whole thing and give us the cliff notes so we don’t have so many threads made about this.
 

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The hilarious thing is...

Will Smith and Tupac are literally the same dude.

Lest we forget that Pac was at the Bmore school of arts doing ballet and Shakespeare plays.

Pac is the epitome of fake. Dude literally got into the music business by being a background dancer for Humpty Dumpty

And then comes back a few years later pretending to be a gangsta.

Dude was even reppin California when he wasn't even from California :mindblown:


And I say all this as a Pac fan. But dude was a fake, a phony just like all the rest of these rappers.

The only difference between him and Will Smith is that Will never pretended to be something he wasn't while Pac created a whole fake persona to be someone else. And wound up going too far with it and getting killed.

If he had it to do over again, I bet you he would be happy to follow in Wills footsteps and be the corny rapper.

Technically he was on the path to be the "corny" rapper, working with Digital Underground. In a way he was the better Will Smith at rapping, while Will Smith was the better 2Pac at acting.

Both dudes are different embodiment but the same progress of trying to find self. Pac sadly lost himself trying to follow the devil, instead of realizing that there was more to himself than being something he's really not. You can be a revolutionary, while not trying to set trip. You can rep the West, while calling Bmore your birthplace. Hell, Kurupt had two albums dedicated to his upbringing in Philly and his new found home in the West.

Pac lost his ways that led to his downfall, while Will thinking to himself how come that legacy can't be mines because of a woman's devotion to the past....
 

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He never did that and why is Pac held up to this imaginary standard?

Many people who rep Pac's thug life shyt, HATE HATE HATE the pro-black stance, period. It be extra :mjpls: when you hear people taling extra-exaggerated gangsta tales, but none about black positivity.
 
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This is crazy. Will Smith got famous from being a regular suburban nikka that could rap and act. Didn't need street credibility or black trauma stereotypes. He literally was famous being himself

As much as this makes Will look beta and an attention whore, this is really the first major step of black men talking about the trauma of the harsh realities of The Crack era of the 80s/90s and how much of the black community hated black men that weren't some raging hyper masculine stereotype. Its an eye-opener how in the early 2020s, black men from that era are FINALLY facing those demons head-on, decades after it happened.
 

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In a weird way, I think I understand what he’s doing. He’s trying demonstrate what it truly means to be free in this society. Not trying to sound existential but imagine being in a place where you can literally say eff it and say everything that you’ve ever bottled up and share that without care of judgement. The stuff that Will is talking about is not something people don’t get or understand. We all get it. It’s just most of us wouldn’t reveal it bc of how others will judge us or how we perceive we would like to others by admitting we are envious, jealous and have failures. Most people hide their failures. Most try not to be vulnerable. Most wish they could literally shed the weight of the masks they wear every single day interacting with different groups of people. I don’t always agree with what the Smiths say but I think I understand what they are doing. They are removing all the weight that comes with being them. If you’ve watched Will for awhile from all of his interviews and his YouTube videos you could see this was germinating for awhile. All of his expectations and weight he felt to carry as a black man and the world top actor has changed as he’s grown. He’s in a place where he’s life screw what everybody else thinks. I’m gonna be me, not the version people want to see. The real me. It’s real freedom.

that’s my thoughts. Based on peoples reactions and commentary about him, you could see how society tries to box you in and even in honesty they judge you and clown your for it.

This is the blunt truth, and a lot of The Coli hates not just Will, but a lot of black men that don't embrace the negativity of the streets.
 

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will ain't got no real homies in his circle

remind your dawg you the one she chose up on

the next man got dubbed for you don't give the win back dummy

jada shytting all over the legacy capping about loving a nikka she was curving after he dies & becomes a cultural diety

shyte is all about a thirst for attention

in a perfect world will would have left her to fade into 90's nostalgic obscurity

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