The Rundown: Jaden Smith, Cool Tape Vol. 2
Peep the details on the rapper's exclusive app release.
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The Rundown: Jaden Smith, Cool Tape Vol. 2 - It's definitely a new age in time because Jaden Smith just dropped his new album out of nowhere, CTV2. Actually, he dropped it exclusively, out of an app. Filled with sonic adventures told from the perspective of bright eyes set on the future, check out the track-by-track rundown from the young Fresh Prince's latest offering. —Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photo: PointBurst)
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'Fire' - Young Jaden gets the party jumping on “Fire” with this Christian Rich bounce production. As a voice of the new generation, he weaves in a few topics from police harassment, young love, to living life carefree as a young teen without a burden in the world except how he’s going to run it in the near future. Already claiming his spot at the top he rhymes, “Get off me I’m on the next ish.… Rapping circles around these jokers man you way too freaking corny…/ All my failures crush your success/ Got me flipping like a skateboard.” (Photo: Roger Kisby/Getty Images)
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'Keep Ya Love,' Featuring Willow Smith - Jaden lets it be known that he hears all the rumors and Illuminati talk about his family and pokes fun at it on this trippy-sounding sonic creation, spitting, ‘You’re not gonna find a Mason as fly as me.' He also enlists his little sister, Willow, to belt out the free-flowing chorus on the track’s ending.With a forcefield around the hate, he shines when he rhymes, “We are inside of you and we’re calming your collective/ And anything defensive said, yes, we will deflect it/ And anything that’s truthful and genuine, we’ll accept it/ We’re the collectives and we’ll show you to the exit.”(Photos: Brad Barket/Getty Images for BET's Rip The Runway)
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'Zoned' - Jaden gets “lost in his head” here as he explores the depth of young love and the fears of getting his heart broken. Love and life are a gamble as he asks, “Let’s talk about where you’re taking me/ I wanna live in your heart but baby is there a vacancy?/ We can just make the drive whenever I’m feeling Vegas-y.”(Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BET's Rip The Runway)
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'Let It Breathe,' featuring Willow Smith - Willow handles the hook while Jaden spits about the ups and downs of his life on this 10-minute track. Speaking on everything from growing up in the Hollywood spotlight to seeing through fake friends, the eclectic track also breaks down into spoken word as Young Will bares his young soul to a girl he’s trying to win over. “Girl you know that I ain’t celibate/ I know who your fellow is, but we can walk the park / We can talk and we can embellish in the creatures after dark/ Because I know I’m a rebel kid and we come from different elements,” he spits.(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)
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'Young & Reckless' - Jaden’s MSFTS crew handles the boards here as the young mogul stunts hard and backs up his prowess on the mic. Making his claims as one of the best, he gets wreck with lines like, “Feel you better than me, well, homey let’s just wait and see/ Yo' mic dusty. You so rusty/ You jokers must be on vacation because you can’t touch me/ It’s ugly/ I flip words like kick flips in the 'burbs / Like nothing you never heard/ like Jazzy Jeff when he turns.” (Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Sony Pictures)
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'Electric,' Featuring Willow Smith - Jaden gets his mack on with a hypnotic organ vibe providing the funk drop as he lets you know the rainbow is for the picking when it comes to his selection of young women. His pops must have taught him well because the charm shines bright as he kicks game like, “I met her on Monday/ Went on Twitter had her number by Tuesday/ That’s how I get it usually/ Batman, Blackman on his Bruce Wayne please don’t confuse me.”(Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for MTV)
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'PCH,' Featuring Willow Smith - Jaden and Willow take you on a Pacific Coast Highway ride for this track as they soak up the highs of youthfulness. Willow sings, “Give me all your kisses,” while Jaden takes the wheels with, “My girl she snoozing/ She was all night boozing/ No love here to be losing/ I don’t care who’s in the car because we really we just PCH cruising.” (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for BET's Rip The Runway)