“This is a pitfall area,” he told me, before diving into one of the more contentious semantic debates in contemporary politics. Naturally, I asked him which certain things we should be arguing about less, prompting Smith to slow his sentences and consider his words carefully. “I would just like us to argue less about certain things and pay attention to the big ripe fruit.” “I just want to encourage Black Americans to take the acknowledgment and seize upon the present global opportunities,” Smith continued. In a golden era for Black talent in Hollywood, when funding is available for projects that would once have been overlooked, Smith sees no sense in wondering if the apple is poisoned. And those opportunities are globally present and plentiful.” And the amount of money that Apple is paying to tell the story is unprecedented. I’ve been trying to get movies made for a long time. “That’s never happened before and with that the opportunities are unlike they’ve ever been. “The entire world was in lockdown, watched what happened to George Floyd, and stood up with one voice and said, We see it. Yet when Smith took the film to studios last year, George Floyd had died and the world had changed. I understood what it was to try to mold a young mind, how it’s different with sons than it is with daughters.”Įmancipation is an even bigger swing, the kind of big-budget script that often lingers in preproduction for years, if not decades. “So when I first read, I understood what it’s like to want your kids to succeed. “Richard Williams is a lot like my father,” Smith explained to me. Smith’s portrayal, Serena added, was so convincing that there were moments she had to remind herself that it wasn’t actually her father on the screen. They think, How do we break them? My dad anticipated that, but he would not allow himself or his family to be broken.” “You see, when someone is different-when they don’t act or look how a person assumed they would-the first reaction is often fear. “My dad was and still is way before his time,” Serena Williams told me in an email. Smith plays him as a crotchety, unbending, but fiercely loving parent. The irascible Williams trained both daughters with balls collected from the tennis clubs he couldn’t get into, and protected them from the grind of tennis and the media in a way that makes him look like a prophet of the current moment in which athletes like Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles prioritize their agency and mental health. In the grand Smith tradition, it’s an inspiring story of triumph over adversity that contains an affecting character study. Both tracks are expected to land on his third album Drugs, the follow-up to 2015’s This Thing Called Life.That means making movies like King Richard, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and due in theaters this November, in which Smith portrays Richard Williams, the eccentric, hard-nosed father of Venus and Serena. Through love and beautiful women, I’ve been able to find myself, reach higher places within myself.”Įarlier this week, Alsina dropped the music video for “ Drugs,” in which he enjoys some fantasy love. “Lately, for me, it’s been about breaking the cycle and creating a new normal. “I realized how addicted to certain ways of living life I was, addicted to chaos, drama, confusion,” he said of the title. The concept seems to fall in line with the inspiration behind his recently-announced album. “If you gotta leave / Girl, I won’t stop ya, so do what you gotta do / I don’t want ya to go / But I got a few things in life that I gotta do / I’m not telling you to wait, I’m not telling you to wait on me … But I’m hopin’ that you wait,” he sings. The New Orleans R&B star cools things down over the mellow instrumental, as he sings some honest feelings to his lady about balancing his career and their relationship. One week after releasing his comeback song “ Drugs,” and announcing his third album of the same name, August Alsina has returned with the song “ Wait,” his second new track of 2017.
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