“I was not a gangster; I was a coward” – Will Smith Makes Bold Confession
Since Will Smith slapped Chris Rock over a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s alopecia at the 2022 Oscars, the actor has gained a lot of attention. Talk concerning Smith’s marriage to his wife has been going strong ever since the incident.
The couple has been in the news for a year now, talking about their marriage and personal lives in public. The Aladdin actor recently opened up about his life in detail, which brought attention to his memoir.
In his recently released memoir “Will,” Smith discusses his upbringing, family, profession, and union with Jada Pinkett Smith. In one section of the memoir, he recalls his early years and talks about his first love, Stacey Brooks, whom he met when he was seven years old. In the memoir, he reflects on his obsession with her.
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“Our neighborhood was thick with kids…Stacey Brooks is my oldest friend in the world. We met the day, my family moved to Woodcrest…I was in love with her, by the time I was seven. But she was in love with David Brandon. He was nine.”
Born into a middle-class family, Will Smith stressed his detachment from the life of a gangster. His rap career was impacted by his upbringing in addition to how he lived. Smith disclosed that he had received constant criticism because of his family history, especially with regard to his rap music.
“I was not a gangster, and I wasn’t selling drugs. I grew up in a nice street in a two-parent household…my story was different from the ones being told by the young Black men who were launching the global phenomenon that would later become hip-hop.”
Will Smith noted that he was raised in a different environment in a respectable family, in contrast to many rappers who come from difficult backgrounds. This seems to have had an impact on his rap career because he was constantly called out as a “illegitimate artist,” which made him insecure about who he was.
“I was somehow an illegitimate artist; they would call me ‘soft’, ‘whack’, ‘corny’, a ‘bubblegum rapper’, criticisms that violently infuriated me. Looking back, I realize I may have been projecting a little, but the reason I hated it so much was that they were unknowingly poking at the thing I most hated about myself, my sense that I was a coward.”
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