It's June 16, 2024, 06:18:13 AM
will smith > eminem/endthread
Will's rapping career started when Hip Hop was about being yourself rather than up-holding some hard-ass gangster image and there wasn't any need for cussing, and it's not like it hasn't worked for him so far. If he started cussing now it'd be like selling out.
The difference is, Will Smith had the strength of a teen program titled "Fresh Prince of Bel Air". Very popular, and is still shown on Television here. That show was global, and was an insight into urban slang for a majority of outsiders, and he used that to promote his status as a "rapper" plenty of times.