Why does hip hop hate Will Smith?

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Nobody hated on Will Smith at all back in the day. Just because Eminem threw a shot at him after rap became his 2nd passion in the early 00s doesn’t really validate anything.
Em takes Ls when he goes after legends, the Will, Hammer, & MJ feuds didn't last long because the public told him:ufdup:
 

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Em takes Ls when he goes after legends, the Will, Hammer, & MJ feuds didn't last long because the public told him:ufdup:

Jay and Em dissed Hammer, he replied with two tracks (respectively) that were trash. To be fair, they were bullying him at this point.

Em dissed Ja, Hammer, Smith, and Benzino...nothing happened. They stood in their lane.

Dissed MJ so many times MJ threatened to sue....

Suffice it to say, Em took the W.
 

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Jay and Em dissed Hammer, he replied with two tracks (respectively) that were trash. To be fair, they were bullying him at this point.

Em dissed Ja, Hammer, Smith, and Benzino...nothing happened. They stood in their lane.

Dissed MJ so many times MJ threatened to sue....

Suffice it to say, Em took the W.
No, The overall feeling was Em was picking on soft targets and those feuds were forgotten. As for MJ he simply got tired of hearing Em talk shyt and threatened legal action, it was after that Em tried to pull the "i think i proved my point" bullshyt excuse.
 

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Nobody hated on Will Smith at all back in the day.


Back in the day around ’89 I remember you guys catching a lot of flack for winning the first grammy for rap and a lot of people were saying you guys didn’t represent the hiphop that was out at the time and the grammy’s really have no street cred on top of that. With that said what do you think was the importance of accepting that award in the midst of those negative aspects and what did it mean for you guys to win a grammy?

DJ Jazzy Jeff: Kenny Gamble told me when you are making history or setting trails you don’t know when you are doing it. Cats got mad at Run DMC when they did a rock record. We get mad when we don’t understand. Will and I didn’t change who we were. We did what we did and it blew up and we got nominated for a grammy and we won. The thing that I laugh about is Will got flack for being a hiphop artist doing a tv show and we got flack for selling records and crossing over. Jay-z made his living doing that. Its like the same things we caught flack for is mandatory for you to be successful today. The only thing that we did was open doors for Eve to sell millions of records and go and do a tv show or for Ice Cube, who wanted to make records and act and then go into directing. It was the shyt because there was a side of me that was like they don’t care what we’re doing so for them to even acknowledge we are out here [is important] because all we’re trying to do is get acceptance. Talking to old school cats like Kool Moe Dee and Melle Mel and how they would say when we did shows we danced and dressed up and did everything because they dissed us so hard we had to show our worth and why we should be here. So with the acceptance you don’t turn that away. We got flack from the guys that were our peers not from the older guys because the older guys were like we fought like hell for acceptance and now they want to accept you don’t turn it down. They aren’t gonna accept you all the way.



Their peers were always shyttin on them for not making "real" hip hop and rapping about having fun and not using bad words, etc...
 

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Will Smith 1989 mugshot for connection to attack which almost left man blind | Daily Mail Online

It has been revealed that in 1989 Will Smith was arrested over an alleged vicious assault which took place in Philadelphia.

According to reports, Smith - who at the time of the arrest was 20 - was involved in an argument which resulted in a man almost losing sight in one eye.

The charges against the 44-year-old actor, which were later dismissed, included aggravated assault, criminal conspiracy, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

The National Enquirer claim that the assault on record promoter William Hendricks took place in the days following on from Smith receiving the first rap Grammy alongside DJ Jazzy Jeff.

The initial story which was published in the National Enquirer.'

Is there a source besides the National Enquirer that ran this story? Lol, I mean, the National Enquirer has also ran stories about Queen Elizabeth being abducted by aliens and James Dean's ghost being spotted at Applebees and ish like that.


‘Aliens accidentally killed me but took my corpse onto UFO to save my life' - shock claim
 

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It's because of that Grammy speech where he shytted on rappers cussing. That's why Dr. DRE who did the music for Bad boys 2 put the the bytch nikkas beat in the background on purpose for some will Smith's scenes
 

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Will Smith 1989 mugshot for connection to attack which almost left man blind | Daily Mail Online

It has been revealed that in 1989 Will Smith was arrested over an alleged vicious assault which took place in Philadelphia.

According to reports, Smith - who at the time of the arrest was 20 - was involved in an argument which resulted in a man almost losing sight in one eye.

The charges against the 44-year-old actor, which were later dismissed, included aggravated assault, criminal conspiracy, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

The National Enquirer claim that the assault on record promoter William Hendricks took place in the days following on from Smith receiving the first rap Grammy alongside DJ Jazzy Jeff.

The initial story which was published in the National Enquirer, alleges that a police report states Smith asked his bodyguard Charles Alston to 'attack' Hendricks.

Hendricks was left needing six stitches after he fractured his left eye orbit during the attack.

A source told the magazine: 'Will had to spend a night in the cell at the West Philadelphia police station with other inmates waking him up all night long and asking for his autograph.

'It was the worst night of his life. He wants to forget it ever happened.'

He's the first out the limo
 
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