Jaden Smith recently released his debut album SYRE. He spoke to Genius.com about the album, and the accompanying visual component which will drop in 2018. Here's what he had to say:
On comparison's to Beyonce's visual album Lemonade:
"It’s an actual film that plays out that has characters. There’s no rapping, really, in the whole movie. It’s just about the story of Syre."
On his persona of Syre:
"It’s really just become a legacy of this guy, this kid, who chases the sunset. And then one day, it chases him back and he can’t get away… It really is the story of me coming to be a young adult, and it wasn’t easy at all."
On misogyny in hip hop:
"Everybody tries to rap the same and talk the same way and be misogynistic in the same way—it’s annoying, My mom taught me different values. And my sister teaches me different things every day. My sister and my girlfriend and my mom… all of these women in my life show me what it’s like to be a woman and how much I don’t understand, and how hard it can be sometimes… the misogyny in rap music right now, [is] degrading and it’s hurtful and it’s not pushing the art forward."
Read the full interview at Genius.com.
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