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Will Smith Is Working on a Rap Comeback, Producer Says

Posted Aug 18th 2011 4:00PM by Marina Galperina
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Hollywood superstar Will Smith might be going back to his rapper roots, according to La Mar "Mars" Edwards, the prolific producer behind most of the Game's new LP 'The R.E.D. Album.'

"We're working on Tip, we're working on the 'High School' movie with Snoop and Wiz Khalifa," he tells XXL Mag. "We're working on Will Smith, bringing him back. That's actually him on the other line right now..."

Will Smith's last album 'Lost and Found' dropped in 2005, full of the safe rap he's favored since his days as one-half of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince -- no profanity, maybe a "damn" or two. Those radio-friendly rhymes helped the duo score the first ever Grammy in the Rap category in 1998, but now it's Smith's daughter Willow that's strutting down the Grammy's red carpet.

Should the breakthrough tween diva's daddy get back in the rap game or keep his focus on his immensely successful acting career?

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Dave Keays

Not all rap fans want profanity in their songs. Not because it bugs us, but it offends people around us. If you keep in the back room with like minded kids then it is alright. But if you go out into a world of other human beings then a show of respect isn't a bad thing. A constant in-your-face attitude gets between you and others.

December 30 2011 at 12:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cife

Why shouldn't Will come back to rap?!! I mean, he's been successful at it since day 1!!! I need a little profanity when I listen to music, but there are millions of people who bought Will's Smith's albums, so that makes me a minority (no pun intended...lol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGXO3ctPOWc

September 25 2011 at 9:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sarah and randy

Sure Hope not-

August 19 2011 at 9:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kid kryptonite

Please don't Will, stick to acting. Your kids do enough music for us.

August 19 2011 at 3:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Briandb82

I hope that he will furth do Movies and no Rap ****. He can't make hip hop!!

http://www.plonki.com/schauspieler/will-smith,367.html

August 19 2011 at 3:51 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

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