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This is Will Smith being introduced to the song as the first rap ever during our National Music Festival: https://youtu.be/Pv_lherkc6E
He looked just as confused as I was.
But I really hope what they did was show him interpretations of lyrics from his own songs and see if he could figure it out
In a similar vein, by one of my favorite music-ish channel:
How rap sounds to non English speakers: https://youtu.be/BdOtR2A5agc
A bluesy, Southern Black American English, to be precise, which goes with the rock’n’roll idiom.
Someone once suggested that this song was an inspiration on Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation”, and once you see that, you can’t unsee it.


