{"id":974349,"date":"2020-01-10T04:31:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T11:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=935925"},"modified":"2020-01-10T04:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T11:31:48","slug":"watch-will-smith-rap-his-entire-life-history-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-will-smith-rap-his-entire-life-history-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Will Smith Rap His Entire Life History on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-10-at-11.26.08-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/will-smith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_will-smith\" data-tag=\"will-smith\">Will Smith<\/a> has had a storied life and career, all of which can apparently be distilled down into a two-minute rap song. On <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em>, Smith joined host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-fallon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-fallon\" data-tag=\"jimmy-fallon\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a> to rap \u201cThe History of Will Smith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou seen him in Billboard, starring in shows,\u201d Fallon starts off. \u201cBut there\u2019s a lot about him that you might not know.\u201d The pair swap verses as they discuss Smith\u2019s personal life, his film career and his musical history. \u201cSix whole years I lived with the Banks,\u201d Smith spits. \u201cSo if you can dance the Carlton, I still give thanks\/ But a real big star needs a real big screen\/ So I had to spread my wings, if you know what I mean.\u201d He adds, \u201cWhen you hear the siren noise\/ Me and Martin, a couple of Bad Boys\/ Independence Day, aliens on my turf\/ You invading us? Nah, \u2018Welcome to Earth!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith appeared on <em>The Tonight Show<\/em> to discuss his new movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/will-smith-martin-lawrence-bad-boys-for-life-trailer-908543\/\"><em>Bad Boys For Life<\/em><\/a>, which is in theaters January 17th. During his sit-down interview with Fallon, the actor noted that rapping his whole life was a bit surreal. \u201cAs we were going through, I was kinda like, \u2018Wow, that was kinda [great],&#8217;\u201d he noted. \u201cI had a nice little run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dqv0lOKvH_s?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><br \/><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-y-xUKLRbk?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/will-smith-rap-life-history-fallon-935925\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith has had a storied life and career, all of which can apparently be distilled down into a two-minute rap song. On The Tonight Show, Smith joined host Jimmy Fallon to rap \u201cThe History of Will Smith.\u201d \u201cYou seen him in Billboard, starring in shows,\u201d Fallon starts off. \u201cBut there\u2019s a lot about him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 15:47:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}