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Will Smith's Bounceback… or Breakdown?
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I stepped outside into a 47-degree sandstorm — basically nature’s version of a slap — and it still didn’t sting as much as watching Will Smith freestyle on TikTok.
Let’s talk cringe, comebacks, PR conspiracy theories, and why this version of Will feels like your uncle at karaoke night… but rich and strangely well-lit. Also: what if the cringe is the point? What if we’re the fools?
Either way, I can’t look away. Welcome to the new season of “Will.”
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Transcript
Introduction: Return to Chaos
00:00:00
Speaker
I just got back home and my car was showing 47 to 48 degrees and there was a sandstorm that had just started it was like a hair dryer full blast plus some.
00:00:15
Speaker
was just like on me when I stood outside for 10 seconds. I felt like...
Shocking Discovery: Will Smith's Freestyle
00:00:20
Speaker
The sandstorm grazed my skin and the heat just melted some of it off. So I might look actually younger because it was like a hot steam room facial, but none of it was as painful as what I just saw when I got home because I watched Will Smith's freestyle rap video.
00:00:40
Speaker
Oh, my God.
A Shift in Perception: The Slap Incident
00:00:41
Speaker
um I know the last couple of videos I've seen of his, I've been trying to ignore ah talking about will Will Smith because after the slap fiasco, i just he's just gone crazy and I don't like him. It's just so weird. When I say I don't like him, like it's like a personal friend that I've broken up with.
00:01:03
Speaker
um it's There's just something off-putting about him these days. And, you know, yeah I think if you slap someone like Chris Rock, then it's just you you deserve
Critique of Comeback: Cringe and Insincerity
00:01:16
Speaker
ah to get this. But lately, lately, he's just been like, he's just kind of come back and and start. I saw an interview of him. And I remember this is podcast or radio station.
00:01:29
Speaker
And the glint in his eye was kind of crazy. All right. It was just, you know, behind, you kind of see something and you go, ooh um this person, he's gone. He's a goner. Or there's some, yeah, something's up, man.
00:01:44
Speaker
But he his latest one, which is like, I just saw it on TikTok and all these people are making fun of it, which which makes me... kind of feel bad for him because i'm i'm like you know this i don't like someone being bullied online either it's very easy to start picking on someone and i don't know what's going on in his brain and his life like with a wife like that i i just i said it's it's just both love hate relationship with this dude right now but this rap song
00:02:16
Speaker
is so terrible. There are these lines in there that I'm like, look, I'm not a great singer. And I do a lot of improv theater. And I don't, um i don't, I know how tough it is to come up with lines in the moment.
Disappointment in Persona: Arrogance or Strategy?
00:02:31
Speaker
And I've been put on the spot and and it's been much worse than anything he's done.
00:02:37
Speaker
But his is, he's it's not just that it's bad it's uh it's cringe and i think when someone is improvising and having fun with it it's less cringe because you're like all right man this person is actually kind of do doing it so when these guys say they're freestyling these rappers i have no idea it's a video and i feel like it's planned which is worse it's like planned improv which is usually a lot worse and so look here's i'm gonna play it for you guys and and just listen in okay yeah all right
00:03:18
Speaker
lyrical lemonade okay i like this not too bad yeah y'all got me a little nervous
00:03:28
Speaker
I know that I be on some other shit. I know that I'm different. I be on some y'all don't understand. The beginning is kind of all right. Made it to the top of Hollywood without a membership. Killed them in July.
00:03:40
Speaker
Then I switched to my December shit. I be overcoming shit that I be having trouble with. Let them run they mouths. I mean, really, that's what come with this. They built a wall, but I'm jumping it and loving it.
00:03:51
Speaker
They want me to with it, but I'm still having fun with it. Writing songs, writing checks, writing history, writing wrongs, but I'm still right man I've just paused it because I and can only take it in bits. This isn't the worst part. i I actually think it's all cheesy and shit at the start.
00:04:08
Speaker
But everything since his sort of like reemergence as has been just about him being so great and really full of himself, which isn't very endearing.
00:04:19
Speaker
So I don't know who's telling him to go ahead and like go down this route. um But I'll come back to that in a second.
Content Analysis: Sincerity vs. Self-Praise
00:04:26
Speaker
here's ah Here's the rest of it. to I go to sleep and my ancestors visit me.
00:04:31
Speaker
They surrounded me, gave me the vision vividly. Gave me a lion to protect me in this industry. Now I just walk and he chewed through my enemies. Feel like I'm just getting started.
00:04:42
Speaker
They tried to finish me. I'm like the universe, infinite. There's no end in me. This is the bounce back. Watch Will, y'all. This is the bounce back.
00:04:55
Speaker
Here come the bounce And he does that quite a bit. you know He does this whole... Which I like. If he was doing it tongue in cheek, I would actually think this is quite cool. right But the fact that he's trying to be impressive...
00:05:11
Speaker
If that is actually what he's going for is what's making me go, oh, oh. and um And there's a lot of like I'm bouncing back, I'm bouncing back. And ah that goes on. Here's the here's here's the rest of it.
Financial Speculations: Motives Behind the Rap
00:05:30
Speaker
Bounce back.
00:05:33
Speaker
Yeah. That's right. This is where... On who? Did he? Oh. Yeah, we get, but was it... Is he still talking about the football players? That's how it works.
00:05:45
Speaker
here every single award on these he sold out movie theaters and even tours on these yeah we forget but was it like a wipeped the floor with these boys he still talking about the football ask me how i do it i just bite off more than i can shoot then i chew it that's how it works yeah yall joke is start i blew it yeah i'm not just an actor y'all oh oh will this is the bounce back watch will y'all this is the bounce back
00:06:27
Speaker
Here come the bounce back. Keep your eyes on them. This is the bounce back. All right. Okay. All right. That last bit is my favorite stuff when he's talking about chewing stuff and then chewing because that's what you need to do when you put stuff in your mouth to chew. I don't know. And then the grenade thing, you know, it's kind of like... um Yeah, you got to pull the pin. Who's lobbing grenades around ah without pulling the pin or holding it after pulling the pin? Like what's going on with you, man?
00:07:00
Speaker
um And then the classic. hu ha um this is This is it. But if you if you look at the video, it's pretty well produced. It's better than anything I produce in my podcast. I feel so embarrassed about this now. I got to up my game, people.
00:07:17
Speaker
um It's well produced. it's it's high quality it's uh it you know i like what what do you expect from a millionaire although lately i've been hearing him and his wife have had to sell their homes some multiple homes my heart bleeds for people like that and and there there must be a ah lag in income and not a lag but like a a slowdown in income if he's not doing as many movies i don't really know what where he stands at the moment
00:07:48
Speaker
But but he's releasing stuff like this, which might hint at some kind of desperation. So ah and yet it's highly well produced
Strategic Moves: A Deliberate PR Effort?
00:07:58
Speaker
and stuff. So I don't there's a part of me that's going this is cringe. This is crazy. Everyone on TikTok is is making fun of it.
00:08:05
Speaker
And then there's a part of me that stops and goes, is this deliberate? is Is he doing this? Because with his money and experience and I'm sure influence, um he he probably is sitting down with a PR consultancy or someone that has gone, let's go down this route. um Or maybe it's led a little by bit by him, but they're like, let's let's make this work.
00:08:32
Speaker
Because at the very least, we're talking about him now. Yeah. He's kind of back in the news. And the amount of all this weirdness is is will make you forget about the reason he got into this mess in the first place. And it's you you do so much crazy stuff.
00:08:52
Speaker
that your old crazy stuff is left behind. And I think that is the, I reckon that's the intelligent thing that's probably happening behind the scenes. And let's see how this evolves over time, where we see, does he kinda make, he actually does bounce back, in which case all this fun and jokes that we're making about him will you know, he'll be the one laughing at the end of it or he's actually gone nuts, which might be true.
00:09:21
Speaker
And and this is the Will Smith, the next generation will have to experience. It could be something in the middle as well, you know, so I don't know. I I'm I the fact that I'm interested in this scenario now hints at this being a bit more clever.
00:09:37
Speaker
the He's got us looking again. and uh that requires some sort of planning um it it must be something like that maybe i'm just too into conspiracy theories and whatnot but i genuinely think there's something going on like that behind the scenes uh we'll see over the next few weeks months as he releases probably more stuff uh regarding this and and how it plays out and how his image changes because of this or he kind of somehow makes a sort of like a comeback. um
00:10:11
Speaker
that's that's what i That's what's going on in my head when I watch this stuff. um ah Let me know what you think as well. And I i i really, I'm now hooked to this show. Oh, God, why?
00:10:25
Speaker
It's worse than the Kardashians. um Let's see how this plays out, man. I'll catch you in the next episode.