Will Smith’s ‘Based on a True Story’ Foregoes Fun for Self-Help Soliloquies: Album Review
Remember when Will Smith was the fun rapper? The enormously affable, uncomplicated rapper? The giddily cheerful Fresh Prince behind “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” the Big Willie Styling hunk of “Jiggy Wit It,” and the sunny seasonal greeter from the anthemic “Summertime”? Smith doesn’t. At least not judging from the weighty rationalizations (or downright excuses, you […]