Will Smith Reportedly Told Eminem, "You'll Either Be The....

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Will Smith Reportedly Told Eminem, "You'll Either Be The Biggest Flop, Or The Biggest Thing We've Ever Seen"

DJ Jazzy Jeff breaks down the interesting 15-year relationship between Eminem, Will Smith and him.

In the first single to Eminem's sophomore major label album, "The Real Slim Shady," the emcee famously began the second verse, "Will Smith doesn't have to cuss to sell records / Well, I do / So fuck him. And fuck you too." While the lyrics were a response to a Grammy speech Smith made at the 1998 Grammy Awards where the emcee-turned-actor bemoaned cursing and Gangsta Rap, there may be more to it.

DJ Jazzy Jeff revealed that the After Earth star gave Eminem some blunt feedback in the late 1990s, prior to Eminem's signing with Dr. Dre and Aftermath Entertainment. "I was a big fan of Eminem's—you know, especially of his super early stuff," explained the West Philly native, likely referring to Em's 1996 self-released Infinite album and subsequent string of freestyles. "I just kinda reached out to him, 'Yo man, big fan. Would love to do some stuff.' And he ended up comin' to Philly and we went in the studio, and just knocked out some stuff. It was crazy, because that was one of the times that Will [Smith] was in town. Will walked into the room, and I think I played Will 'Just The Two Of Us.'" The 1997 song would appear on The Slim Shady EP, believed to be interpolating the Will Smith Big Willie Style song of the same name. "Will listened to it, and Will looked at him and said, 'You're either gonna be the biggest flop in Hip Hop, or you're gonna be the biggest thing that we've ever seen in Hip Hop. And [Eminem] never forgot that."

Jeff deduces—referring to Em's song about being alone with his daughter after kidnapping and murdering his wife, "It was so outrageous." The A Touch Of Jazz Productions head also analyzes the feedback, 16 years later. "'You're gonna be the biggest flop, because I guess people are just gonna think you're so crazy. Or you're just a super genius'—and the super genius part really paid off."

Interestingly enough, Montreality asked Jeff about Will's lyrics in his hit single three years later. Asked about the "fuck you" to the Fresh Prince, Jeff explains, "That kinda stuff, he just brushes off. The funny thing was, I ended up deejaying at an Em show in Detroit. And when I went in there, he kinda came to me and was like, 'Yo man, when I said that stuff about Will, he wasn't mad?' I said, 'Nah, he doesn't care about that stuff.' [Eminem added], 'That was just me stickin' up for [Dr.] Dre and that point in time." Dr. Dre, a pillar of Gangsta Rap since the mid-1980s with N.W.A., was present when Smith made the famed Grammy speech.

DJ Jazzy Jeff has known Will Smith for nearly 30 years. The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince released five albums between 1987 and 1993, and continue to collaborate today.

SOURCE: http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.2 ... ever-seen-

[shadymathers313]

Big Willie Style is a classic

[momentsgolden]

Will smith really is in touch with hip hop. I respect him more and more as i hear stuff abt his rap days

[RoleModel'Est96]

BOOM! SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE THE ROOM!

[PAINKILLƎR]

Em and Will should collab :facewithxmashat:

[BigBoss]

They made songs???

[Jimmy Conway]

Em's such an insecure pussy. WILL ISN'T MAD AT ME IS HE? IS HE HOME, HE WON'T ANSWER THE PHONE. I MISS HIM, MY TAMPON HURTS.

[Despicable]

They really made songs? Would love to hear that shit

[Devil'sAdvocate]

thats amazing.

[python]

Em's such an insecure pussy. WILL ISN'T MAD AT ME IS HE? IS HE HOME, HE WON'T ANSWER THE PHONE. I MISS HIM, MY TAMPON HURTS.

Exaggerations are not funny huh huh huh.

[EminemBase]

Wow, he was certainly right, Em has been the biggest thing seen in rap so far.

[Francesco]

Em went at him more than once in his early career & Will Smith did the unthinkable & came back at Em on his last album back in the day.
Good read regardless...

[EminemBase]

I wonder if before he was famous, when he was a normal person like you and I, did he ever think he would be 1 of the biggest artists including all genres or even just imagine it.

I think so, you can hear it in his lyrics.

"I think I got a generation brainwashed"

He said that on his FIRST album. That's prophetic in predicting his effect, I mean I know anybody could just say that in the hope they become that but, it always seemed like he knew and intended the scope that he achieved.

Take The Marshall Mathers LP for example; I saw one critic say it was the first rap album that 'assumed worldwide attention. And had it'... which is true. It's not like Em was the biggest artist in the world after The Slim Shady LP... he was getting big sure, but there's wasn't that much logical basis to think the entire world would respond to such broadly political provocation on MMLP...

He's very... or rather, was very good at anticipating how he will be perceived next and exploiting it. And he always has his legacy in mind - even with the middle finger shit... he's made an art out of it, solidifying the image of rebellion, doing it over and over in almost every pic from 1999-2008.

[Emadyville]

interesting to say the least. amazing, if true, that will saw the potential genius in his shit haha

[AbramIsaac]

I wonder if Eminem took the swipe Will took at him a few years later as lightly.

"Dissed by Eminem, but didn't both him
Nope, oh he flashy
Big Will just made another 20 Mill,
Walk right past E
I'm a nice guy, why ya'll harassing me?"

It wasn't like he said he'd fuck his daughter or something, but Eminem was pretty insecure around that time-frame. I doubt it was a big deal to him, otherwise we would have heard about it. It kind of makes me wonder though, if there's some zombie-Em track locked up in the vaults telling Will Smith where to shove it.