he has some legitimately great songs but it never felt like he could string together a project full of them

also his production was always high value but hit or miss

and now it just seems like he doesnt care

if we're being real he had more subject matter than like 90% of the industry lol

very low bar but still

I think due to his upbringing, he was always gon have a shortlived career. He was never gonna have the drive to keep pushing himself

seen him tour with j.cole. bruh was in the crowd and everything. way better performer than i anticipated, i was a believer. still am tbh

He had subject matter, he just made it sound goofy af

I keep reading this as “Jordan could’ve actually been a fire rapper”

I think Jaden was actually slightly ahead of his time. I feel like he fits in with the 20s better than the late 10s. I actually like him as an artist

SYRE kind of reminds me of Because the Internet where the vision of the album sells me more than the music. He was onto something with that whole direction

founder of a $100 million dollar company

pretty much no one in the mainstream has made anything as good as ctv3 this decade

You didn't have to do him like that

He always reminded me of a "good" version of xxx ngl

Hes always been painfully generic

Parroting what a lot of other people said Syre was actually a good album

The production on that B-L-U-E 4 track intro was crazy

yeah honestly even my favorite songs of his had some pretty corny lines

my pov on him was/is that he had the potential and the budget to make good music but it never really came to fruition. but to say he had zero talent or 'nothing to talk about' isnt fair to him either

that stretch of summertime in paris, blackout and pain on erys was tapping into something too

Jaden lit

He’s much better at melodic s*** than rap imo

Also his recent album is probably my favorite project from him.
But I know that SYRE is the only album that people acknowledge for whatever reasons

BLUE is peak from him

his aesthetic for album art/videos was always cool too

Jaden Smith and Vic Mensa were the only capable rappers that couldve carried out that Soulection/West Coast beat scene sound at the time.

I honestly think Jaden Smith just aint care to be big like that lol

cool tapes vol 2 was good idgaf

lyrics were ass but on a pure vibe level he was there

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