I just thought about this because I’ve had changes in rotation since it dropped and i never understood the hate for it. album feels like a healing session

Big Day
also More Life

Oh yea thats a big one too Half the album is good or great and the other half is trash but its getting treated like its completely bad

I feel like people already decided they were gonna hate the big day before it dropped

It’s below average but not as bad as people make it seem

Anything from Cudi except SBTH

show me how much you listen to the big day

I deadass listened to it a lot since it dropped

Sun comes down is my favorite chance song now

Ready to Die
Illmatic
All Eyez on Me

Carter 4
Blueprint 3

Will Smith is quite the complex character when you look into things. As far as his personality on the outside goes, he's generally a laidback, wise-cracking, confident, and street-smart teenager. However, looking beyond the surface, we see a boy who is very emotional. Although trying to act tough, and as if things don't bother him, they do. Despite the front he puts on, he's very emotional - and cares much more than he's willing to admit. And when you look deeper, it comes from a place of loneliness.
According to Will himself, he was born and raised in West Philedelphia with a single mother, and as we later find out, a father - who left when he was three. As he tells Uncle Phil in Season 4 Episode 24, (keep that episode in mind, I'm going to be bringing it up a lot) he raised himself. With his deadbeat father never returning during his time in West Philly, and his mother always working, Will felt, and I quote - "like he was a boy with one skate, while the other kids were using two." He raised himself, and always felt inferior to the other kids. Will, at one point, describes himself as a studious young boy, unlike later in the series.
If I may use a quote from a psychology study - "Studies have shown that if a child suddenly loses a parent - or parent(s) - through death or abandonment, the child experiences intense fear, panic, grief, depression, helplessness and hopelessness. The child has lost his parents - his lifeline, and often his sense of self
The world, and life, become disorganized and terrifying."
Although he almost never admits it, his life growing up with an absent father played a huge part in shaping him. Raising himself, and rarely getting to see his mother because she was at work, living the life of a single mother, - although he does have a sweet relationship with her - it is only natural Will would feel almost. . . lonely. And it's not the sense of loneliness many children face, either. It's not so much he can't talk to people - it's that he fears they'll leave him, just like his father left him. If how he references himself in Philadelphia shows us anything, he was quite "the man", having lots of friends, as well as being very attentive and focused in school. But, it's unlikely he ever felt really connected with these friends. Besides the occasional "Ice-Tray", he really didn't have any friends.
Will's love life is even worse. Will, throughout the series, is seen to be superficial up until Season 4. Going girl after girl, never seeming to form a genuine relationship. And looking into his past, it makes sense why he would act this way. Growing up, he only had a mother, and thus, with no father in his life - he never got an understanding of what love was like. Not only that, but growing up with an absent father left him with a fear that they'll leave him. So, he keeps his heart hidden. He locks himself away from a deep, intimate relationship - to save himself from being abandoned again. He never commits, and his only experiences with love are the one-nighters we meet through the series "You're dying to really connect, but terrified to let anybody near you. Because what if they saw who you are? How could they love you?" - Henry Brogan (portrayed by Will Smith)
This in mind, it gives a lot of context to what Will says to Carlton in bed that one time - that he "can't see himself with the same woman everyday." It's the reason why he's such a womanizer. Because to him, nobody could love him. This be why, AFTER Season 4, the season where his father issues are (for the most part) dealt with, he actually pursues a love life with a girl he meets, Lisa. And while the issues regarding his father will always be a part of his life, Uncle Phil says it himself - "You are my son, Will. End of story." Through Uncle Phil, Will lives the life with a father he never had growing up. And while Uncle Phil may seem cruel to him at times, at the end of the day, he loves him. Not as a nephew to an uncle - but as a son to a father.

Jesus is king
Blueprint 3
TLOP 4

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This is a solid thread why do this?

Kiss Land

I have never seen a person hate on it

I guess you weren't around when it dropped

BITTSM

Big Sean - Hall of Fame
Rick ross - Hood Billionaire

lol 3 of the most classic albums of the 90s nobody who actually cares about rap history hates on those

Kingdom Come and Nastradamus too

Kingdom Come lowkey has some great production

Kingdom Come, American Gangster
LASERS
Graduation
Human After All

KOD

Testing