"You’ll be looking at the younger rappers and you want that to be true for you, but you don’t live like that," Smith recalled Jay-Z telling him Will Smith has revealed that he called Jay-Z and ...

Before digging into the recording process for the project, Smith made two phone calls to a pair of rap titans, soliciting advice from Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar. Smith sat down with Sway in the ...

In an appearance on Sway in the Morning, Smith credited Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar with nudging him toward a new level of honesty in his artistry, per TheSource. Jay-Z told him to lean into his ...