Will Smith started the night rapping — then settled in next to Spike Lee as a Hollywood star and now an author. Whatever he did on stage, the multi-talented actor was cheered by adoring fans …
started the night rapping — then settled in next to Spike Lee as a Hollywood star and now an author. Whatever he did on stage, the multi-talented actor was cheered by adoring fans in the filled-to-capacity 3,000-seat historic Kings Theatre, a grandly restored former 1929 movie palace turned performance space in the heart of Brooklyn.
His dad called him at 3 am PT the morning after opening night and said: “Did you see the numbers? Remember when I told you there’s no such thing as luck…Only what you make…Remember I told you, luck was where opportunity meets preparation? Man, that’s a bunch of bullsh-t, you’re the luckiest mother f-cker ever.”
Smith and Lee talked lovingly about their grandmothers. He called her Gigi. “She taught me about faith about god about love, what it looks like, what it feels like,” Smith said. He recalled what happened after she found a book of his early teenage rap lyrics and wrote a note inside. It said, “Dear Willard, truly intelligent people do not have to use words like this to express themselves. Please show the world that you are as smart as we think you are.
“That’s why in my early rap career I didn’t curse in any of my records and I got bashed for that. Soft and corny and not black enough and all of that. But the thing is there was no peer pressure that was more powerful than Gigi pressure. She missionized me in the world in a way I knew I wasn’t going into the world just for me.”
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