WILLOW Collaborates with The Roots on One of Her Unfinished Songs, Talks Album empathogen

WILLOW talks about the first song she ever intentionally made, workshops one of her unfinished songs with The Roots and compares the experience of creating an album versus writing a book.
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[@KolkhozWoman]

What's yall problem with her grills. If you listen to her album, it deals with themes of human imperfection, mental health issues, anxiety, but it's also deeply rooted in black culture and music, so that's why she's wearing imperfect grills. It's a metaphor it's not that hard to grasp. Not everything needs to be perfect, that's what her music is about, imperfect humans who still have empathy for each other (hence the name of the album). She's very creative and original, unlike most celebrities whose main preoccupation is their perfect looks with nothing underneath, no talent, no story, nothing that peaks interest, yet she's not about bringing anyone down but lifting up. Empathy yall. Oh and her music is amazing.

[@roseamberzine5846]

❤❤❤

[@nowaynoway915]

They don’t care most of them are ignorant bigots 😂

[@wdbreezy]

So, those are her naturally imperfect teeth? Or she’s covered some of her teeth to express and reflect her creativity and imperfection?

[@joyl3321]

Excellent comment. Too bad her work went over the head for some !!

[@NIAADERO]

Exactly THAT PART!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@stacyreader2665]

I love how she keeps saying she grateful and lucky☺️🥰

[@vp4744]

She's well coached for TV appearances.

[@stacyreader2665]

Many people are well coached and don’t ooze appreciation for their lot in life. She does, and I like that.

[@vp4744]

@@stacyreader2665 So what went wrong do you think when you go slap the host on TV?

[@idontusepunctuationsodontc4425]

​@vp4744 did she slap a host wow that is crazy who did she slap i ca t believe i hadnt heard about that

[@THELONESTARSTATE1776]

Yeah I would be grateful too if my parents were rich famous celebrities

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

Good for Willow for not using a ghost writer and actually being a co-writer.

[@payasoartwork5906]

😂😂 yeah she came up with a 3 whole words! What an artist 😂😂😂😂 You have no idea what you're talking about

[@BroadWayJazz120]

​@@payasoartwork5906🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lovely66618]

​​@@payasoartwork5906just your response alone tells everyone that you know nothing about music and being an artist

[@payasoartwork5906]

@@lovely66618 that's hilarious 😂😂😂😂 you're absolutely clueless, you Muppet

[@SoulSiren01]

She's giving female lenny kravitz swag!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@anthonytaylor7928]

How is she a female Lenny Kravitz what a dumb comparison shes not the only female thats had a afro duh

[@OG_2pence]

What a foolish comment Lenny has a whole daughter and nobody says that about her clearly judging her by her hair😂

[@mrpearson1230]

I LOVE PEOPLE WHO EXPRESS THEMSELVES FULLY! BE YOU! THEY'LL NEVER BE ANOTHER!

[@shawnmcginnity3786]

😂

[@Mineo5]

I love that she’s herself. You get one life, wear your grill girl. It’s not forever!

[@SOI-wl2lo]

Fr!

[@AdvncdFinesse]

YES!!!! ❤❤❤❤

[@caroljones4348]

Right On!

[@Dev-In-Denver123]

People have caps like that because they can’t afford better dentistry. Wearing “poor” as a style will always be so low as to make me sick. That’s not your life.

[@ben.7661]

​@@Dev-In-Denver123people have been wearing grills for aesthetic reasons forever. what are you talking about?

[@finaltouchpro648]

There's a lot of her DAD in her personality. She seems fun. And she is so herself it's amazing!

[@Racheykins]

Well , that’s just sad then … coz despite her stupid parents she seems pretty cool

[@oraromaochi5584]

@@Racheykins i.e. how to put on a public persona for the camera.

[@ithamarlowe6158]

Actually the kids raised themselves.

[@-love-life3267]

You are definitely a follower of the media. Willlow is all Jada and Will. She can be laid back and she can be sassy. Her Mom can be laid back and her Dad can be sassy. Then vice versa.

[@ecm3030]

@@Racheykinsgo away already negative Nancy or rachet rachey 🙄

[@devonnarevell1249]

Shes definitely a combo of both her parents even down to the way she speaks!!! Shes beautiful and talented ❤

[@sskiddles31081]

I agree!

[@BattleBladeWarrior]

Yea, its really amazing actually. You can see a lot of mannerisms throughout the interview that have flashes of both parents. Its like watching a younger version of them from back in the day.

[@SandraOpal-me7sg]

I love her! She has an old soul!!

[@des_elise]

No, she's a young woman with a youthful, beautiful soul

[@kuldoxy5637]

Exactly! She does......Like she's living in the wrong era.

[@lunarblake]

she looks stunning, GRILLZ AND ALL. and i appreciate her wearing her natural hair. never see afros anymore

[@mantis044]

She's stunning in and out

[@bernicebaker2596]

Beautiful natural wig..

[@Dreams-zy3ci]

@@bernicebaker2596shes been growing out her hair and are you crazy thats very natural hair definitely not a wig

[@adambeaven8066]

@@Dreams-zy3ci very likely not.

[@ShawnLH88]

@@bernicebaker2596only a white person could make this comment

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

The roots never miss 💯 they are so talented.

[@sonyaunderwood933]

FACTS 🥂

[@kasinoblakkblakk8902]

Love how she embraced her blackness. We need our women to do this more .. very smart so attractive..

[@Racheykins]

FACTS !!more Willows less Sexxy Red 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️☮️💜

[@goddesstara4949]

@@Racheykins YASSSS 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤

[@Racheykins]

@@goddesstara4949 ☮️💜🙏

[@KyeyuneBatuma]

Yessss very that

[@simonechalice5021]

Facts💪🏾

[@dr.100purrscent5]

I feel like a Proud Auntie everytime I see Willow. I ADORE that Baby Girl 💗✊🏾

[@Global-Citizen1]

Willow has grown to such a beautiful talented young woman...love her❤

[@kimberlymoyer1232]

So sweet, so humble,so loving, Jada and Will did a great job!!!!

[@user-kz1lc2td3z]

She didn't go to school and there wasn't discipline in her house.

[@rj7463]

Do you know them personally??

[@blinktambo255]

@@user-kz1lc2td3z she was homeschooled 🙄

[@dondada2959]

Uum no 😂 do you know what her parents are really about will always trying to make out with his son

[@Nay-kp6uu]

Humble?

[@stephaniethomas2223]

LOVE HOW JIMMY SUPPORTED HER

[@Mimi-xg5gu]

I have been admiring Willow’s music for years. She’s always had it. ❤ much love to her. ❤

[@blonded5299]

I NEED A WILLOW X THE ROOTS COLLAB ASAP

[@misladybrilla]

Yesssss

[@curlsuncoded7870]

She looks so beautiful! I'm happy she is able to be her self!❤️

[@tineshacopeland5414]

The roots are so underrated!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@durtyjones]

The Roots are underrated how?

[@kyraspikes7542]

@@durtyjones Ask you neighbor who the roots are. They aren't as recognizable as The Beatles, Hall and Oats, Kansas, CCR, The Who, or Pink Floyd. That's how they are underrated and under-appreciated

[@tonyantoine5823]

The Roots are underrated to who? From Philly to Africa, very well known.

[@-love-life3267]

Goofiest comment ever. How are they underated? They are an all black rap/hip hop group who was asked and paid to be the sitting band of a white talk show. And they’ve done it for YEARS.

[@ancestralabundance]

Been watching all of the Willow album rollout interviews.

[@drawer982]

She is such a sweetheart, this was nice to watch! Congratulations Willow on your album!!!!

[@Holamiamigos777]

The roots freestyling was everything 🔥

[@user-er6zk5mt6u]

Coping Mechanism my fav Willow album, & her song SPLIT.

[@humansolarian]

She really has branded that voice and witnessing the evolution has been such an experience 🙏 Why did they tease us with such a timepiece for a second there 😭😭😵‍💫

[@007luanamartins]

Collaborate with Samara Joy!!! It’s going to be awesome! Im commenting of everything to see if someone gets to her

[@misladybrilla]

Agreed!!!

[@Uhhitschan]

Yesss!

[@DCSquirrel]

I just listened to the album preview and it’s interesting that she mentions St. Vincent because she is known for admiring Kate Bush and a few of these songs sound like a Kate Bush tribute album.

[@AlyssaArundell]

Yes! I thought the same!

[@DCSquirrel]

@@AlyssaArundell It’s an interesting album, but it’s so referential to me: Kate Bush, Jethro Tull, Belly & Tori Amos. I hear them in so many songs.

[@QualiaRebelations]

He?

[@vp4744]

Vincent is a she.

[@DCSquirrel]

@@QualiaRebelations Thanks. My device didn’t add the s for some reason. I hate touch screen typing. I’ve got to learn to spell check.

[@melissathomas2590]

I love Willow so much!!! She's in a lane by herself. She is music and extremely talented.

[@eddiemartinez4372]

Her look is so cool

[@CokeWithIceAndLemon]

The Fresh Princess

[@yolandaevans9431]

Willow is beautiful watching her grow is amazing. She is super talented and artsy!!

[@rtd1791]

She feels authentic to you? To me she’s always felt like a jangled mix of affectations. Like if one could assemble a persona from thrift stores. But maybe I’m just too old to appreciate her.

[@LashayMW]

​@rtd1791 you can be multifaceted and still be authentic

[@yourturn777]

AMEN! Aren't we all??! ​@@LashayMW

[@PrettyBlkSense]

Top notch talent! Willow rocks!!!!!!

[@deannaperkins754]

I love Willow! She does HER, and she's very talented! Actually, so is Jaden! ❤

[@yulesbiamrivera291]

She has such class and confidence poise and beauty and grace

[@vp4744]

You write as if that’s unusual or unexpected.

[@yulesbiamrivera291]

@@vp4744 lol no on the contrary she reminds me of both her parents. They made a beautiful child together.

[@vp4744]

@@yulesbiamrivera291 Yikes, really? The father who slapped the TV host on Hollywood's biggest night of broadcast? Or are you proud how she turned out given the effed up family she comes from?

[@yulesbiamrivera291]

@@vp4744 idk about you but I love Will Smith. One incident doesn’t define a person. And the mother has issues but don’t we all. Just bc her parents are famous and laundry is aired out doesn’t mean she didn’t take the positive and made it into something beautiful. She stands in her own right and she is all that and a bag of chips!!!

[@vp4744]

@@yulesbiamrivera291 So I was right when I said you write as if her success is unusual and unexpected.

[@B.Dahlia89]

I love how well spoken and mature she is. She has a wonderful vibe.

[@ancestralabundance]

I actually would love to see her collab with Tyler. 1:14

[@acidboombox3033]

I’ve dug deep and i gotta say she’s really talented i don’t doubt listening to ardipithicus, the first, and willow album they have some select bangers

[@kateuhler7803]

I love that Vikings show too. And I LOVE this Willow ♀️ woman, she is so awesomely talented.❤

[@shinebabyshine.]

her passion for music just oozes out of her. so inspiring

[@sheloveswilby]

This girl is brilliant and humble. Can't wait to read the book.

[@ecm3030]

Wow! She looks just like her dad 💗

[@amariross]

WILLOW is BEAUTIFUL 😍

[@reby58]

She looks like will smith in a wig ❤️

[@so9487]

That hair is dope. She is a beauty.

[@lakishajohnson7992]

Moving to the beat of ber own drum. This woman is beautiful, has style and class and its so refreshing to see. Create your own lane and do what YOU love and what speaks to you. Shes a great conversationalist also. I just adore Willow.

[@jojobee42]

There's nothing unique about her... She's doing things that have been done before... Sorry to burst your bubble!

[@nattywho]

Talented young lady and she seems down to earth…as much as one can be with her kind of fame!!!

[@Lovely__lenc]

Loving this look on her 😍

[@fawnisedeisha2480]

Afro/Grillz/Culture 😍🔥 LOVE Willow! ❤✨🫶🏽

[@coachlady6837]

She is so talented ❤❤❤❤and her music have a jazz contemporary vibe! She’s amazing! 😊

[@ayysweetstea9339]

She's shining she looks well ✨️

[@skysummer6429]

So Young, So talented, So great!! I am so proud of her and where she is headed! Kudos to you WILLOW....You rock! So much ahead for this young lady...cant wait to see it all unfold!

[@vibiify]

Im willows parents age..and I have to say..I love her growth and talent…I can tell she has a beautiful soul and just a cool young lady ..super super talented and I’ve seen how she continues to evolve..love it ❤vibes#beautiful soul

[@ourbreakthroughpodcast9353]

If extraordinary were a person!! I remember smiling from my heart and thinking whenever she would speak in public as a kid, “She’s really special.” ❤

[@dakotac180]

She's so beautiful, the new album feels like being on shrooms, like it. Coping Mechanism is still my favorite so far by her.

[@faxmachina]

Love the album cover Willow

[@siriuslyspeaking9720]

That melody of the first song she ever made, is a standard Latin riff or montuno as musicians call it. I'm sure many people recognize it, even if they are not listeners of Latin music of the mambo/salsa/Latin jazz forms of Latin music. I wish they would have talked more about her book. I have always thought teaching history chronologically, but also cover ever area of the world at the same time, would give us a better understanding of the past. I'm really curious about her book. Didn't even know she was singer. Don't keep up with celebrity's lives.

[@QUINCY_XXII]

Willow is a creative pure and simple. I've seen her Instagram reels. She's in it foreal.

[@blinktambo255]

I just love willow she’s so sweet and genuine and I really hope I get to meet her in person one day .

[@nancykathryntieger8893]

Her new album is SO good! The musicianship, the creativity, the very cool unique vibe, the vocal control

[@curlsladycurlsladyVenice]

Love her authenticity, so real!! Young Will Smith.

[@CEELOW3000]

I wish I could find a version of her my age or close to it - I love her entire Vibe - it's so beautiful and sincere

[@abundancesunflower1971]

She looks great!

[@dianasofiagutierrezgarcia6288]

She is amazing, love her voice, she is so talented❤😊

[@pamelaivonne-cole]

im like a proud auntie!!! Willow you are amazing!!! Keep going and growining. 🥰😍

[@pana6572]

She's turned out pretty well this beautiful young lady Miss Willow, despite all the dramas about her famous parents! May God bless her!

[@ritanemons1283]

Willow is in a league all her own. Accept her as she is. Love you and your family Willow❤❤❤

[@keabetswelugalo3328]

She is literally a female version of her dad. The look, character, everything!!!

[@BattleBladeWarrior]

Totally agree! I saw flashes of her father throughout the video. Aside from the crackhead teeth :O A grill is one thing, but a rich, beautiful woman, intentionally blacking out certain teeth the way she did is more of a mockery of black culture than a show of support for whatever she's trying to say.

[@Kammycreationz]

Love how she acknowledge the band a lot of celebrities don’t do that and the roots are legends. Her parents did great with her , love how humble she educated she is go Willie 😍🥰❤️❣️

[@sheldonfleming7796]

It's great that willow is back in the spot light after years away from making music and what better way for her to do that than to go on the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon, he's very funny, just like Jimmy Kimmel, her hair looks great in the afro, she reminds me so much of her dad Will Smith ,she has her ways and her voice sounds like his in a way, whip my hair made her a star at a young age, that song was a smash, grownups and kids was playing it, you even heard it in clubs,so she knows how to handle herself with being an entertainer, I'm surprised that no one approached her about an acting role, I can see her doing great in that also, with a new book 📖 out and an album out, hopefully one day, she can add actress also☝.

[@77Creation]

Shout out Little Dragon. 🐉

[@jackfrostprodz]

Dat Fro Tho

[@jalikquarterman4318]

Why all the hate i enjoy the new sound people should be happy and embracing actual artists and not so called rap now like Sexy Red or Ice Spice

[@kellyrodgers4939]

No hate.

[@vp4744]

You're looking in the wrong places, no hate.

[@Blu3Cam]

She's had many advantages in her life. She's been blessed to fulfill her dreams. Keep it going.

[@heatherkelly3744]

Many disadvantges too!

[@tonieltaylor7755]

She has her OWN sound is right 😊

[@user-xw5il1uy7u]

I guess tone deaf is a sound

[@user-uj2ft2zn6o]

She’s definitely not tone deaf… so who are you referring to? 🤔🙃

[@user-xw5il1uy7u]

@user-uj2ft2zn6o she is grown now and still seems of a spoiled child from a broken home. She has zero talent and her voice sounded like trash in her performance on top of the song itself being trash. And the teeth look terrible showing she still makes dumb child decisions to try to be cool. She deserves no place in any spotlight .

[@cjourneys5785]

Her hair is fly love it.

[@user-uk1xu4fe7h]

You are such a smart, talented young artist that speaks the truth. You are a real inspiration & one of a kind.

[@broken4663]

Go Willow You did that ❤

[@cobbyvandapuye-barzillai4335]

An incredible young woman! I love everything about her! ❤️

[@felipepatrocinio1236]

I love her 🇧🇷

[@RedGazelle1367]

So talented!!! She constantly impresses me. Go Willow!!!

[@gil-evens]

3:10 The Roots proving yet again how legendary they are

[@whatsYoReaction8659]

Yess❤❤ I’m so proud of her❤❤ she’s amazing

[@digitaltechnologyunion4040]

She exudes style and confidence It's like she dressed in music

[@yasip9897]

Super talented --all of the Smiths. Amazing. God bless them. ❤✝️🙏🏾

[@wina630]

I ❤ her music and her personality, she's unique

[@evelyntarawa7140]

Willow is herself with a old soul loving it" make my mind up"

[@athenagriego4561]

I really like this girl❤

[@AkTiV8iOn]

Her energy is crazy.. LOVE LOVE!

[@frmdastash]

She's amazing ❤

[@nowaynoway915]

She is so talented!

[@vansolo12]

Warwick Davis has changed so much since the movie

[@IndispensableBeauty]

Wow that sounds so nice. The roots are so amazing

[@Nixcoffee]

She’s actually super talented. Watch her perform wait a minute! So good

[@user-xw5il1uy7u]

She sounded like trash

[@TheTobias04]

❤❤❤love & respect for her just being her & real

[@tammied1858]

Stay as the beautiful nerd that you are and keep loving life 🌻

[@nessaic]

Such a great album. I am HOOKED!

[@andymiuu_0381]

I love her so much❤

[@JenniferHolley-sn3rs]

She is her dad 😂😭

[@ezzymartin]

Amazing ❤️

[@mauhuff]

If y’all haven’t already check out Willow’s 2023 Coachella set. Phenomenal performer and talent.

[@oneikasuckra]

I love this girl so much❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤