The 21st century is the current century of the Anno Domini era or the Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The century began on January 1, 2001 and will end on December 31, 2100. The years starting from 2001 to 2011 are now historical; the years ranging from 2012 to 2100 are subject to futurology and predictions. As of now, &1000000000000001100000011 years and &10000000000000177000000177 days of the 21st century have passed.
In contemporary history, the 21st century began with the United States as the sole superpower in the absence of the Soviet Union. As the Cold War was over and terrorism on the rise, exemplified by the September 11, 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, the United States and its allies turned their attention to the Middle East and North Africa.
Digital technology, in its early stages of mainstream use in the 1980s and 1990s, became widely accepted by most of the world, though concerns about stress from the overuse of mobile phones, the Internet and related technologies remains controversial.
Willow Camille Reign Smith (born October 31, 2000), often known simply as Willow, is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, and the younger sister of Jaden Smith. Smith made her acting debut in 2007 in the film I Am Legend and later appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl alongside Abigail Breslin. She received a Young Artist Award for her performance.
Apart from her acting she launched a music career in the fall of 2010 with the release of her singles "Whip My Hair", "21st Century Girl", and signing to her current mentor Jay-Z's record label Roc Nation. "Whip My Hair" peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. The video was nominated for Video of the Year at the BET Awards of 2011.
Smith is the daughter of musician-actor Will Smith and actress Jada Pinkett Smith. She has an older half-brother, Trey Smith, and an older brother, Jaden Smith; both are also child actors. Smith is African-American, and also has West Indian, Creole, and Portuguese-Jewish ancestry on her mother's side. Smith and her brothers are youth ambassadors for Project Zambia, which provides assistance for Zambian children orphaned by AIDS in conjunction with Hasbro.
[Intro: Solomon Childs]
Yeah, word...
Godfather shit... you know?
Take your mind off it (yeah, what?)
[Solomon Childs]
My projects, this the funeral homes and Laundromats
Hall of fame, for niggas who hit off gats
Late comer, ain't turned ghetto since fourteen
In the hood it's only money that the drop bring
Solomon King, and when the toast ring
You know I know, you yellow back niggas'll run
Talkin' shit, is like walkin' wet on the third rail
My fault for hurtin' ya'll sales
About to party like I'm Bobby Rail
Cop grams off a Dominican in the well
Fifth borough, marquise, livin' New York soap operas
I see more drug dealers than doctors
Neglect, hold a ratchet, but to Allah I'm still innocent
I keep correspondin', wit thugs who needs witnesses
Uncle Wise, 21st century
[Chorus x2: Solomon Childs]
Ghetto celebrities, penitentiary bars
Jealousy, guns, jigga spot number runs
Criminals and deceased stars
Look around you, son, who wouldn't get high
[Remedy]
We make music, til the wee hours of morn'
These grays in my beard grow as time goes on
Nothin' like the feeling, when you're hearin' our song
The best things in life just don't last long
Can't believe it, even little Barbara's gone
Wifey cries everyday, but tries to be strong
We all do things we no is dead wrong
Can't get it where you fit in, if you don't belong
Wait for no man, make moves for delf
You can't understand, I write songs for self
Seen misery and company, along with wealth
The real jewel is happiness and good health
Know cats that had money and now they're dead broke
Straight up clean kids, who now smoke coke
Smokin' up cigarettes and died of a stroke
What used to be respected, now is a joke
[Chorus]
[Remedy]
21st century, my suggestion to you is to Remedy
If you don't know your enemy, then you're already dead
Rest in peace, God bless, the realest shit said (life)
[Solomon Childs]
Last intermission, Body Brighton thrill-ogy
Stressed out momma, Stephanie Mills
Project black house, sell crack to pay bills
New York crime scene, narcotic crime kings
Chicks with the Chinese doobies, gold diggers wit the tight cooties
Searchin' up the candy wit the big booties
Draw part headed, hard headed growin' up
And hard head will make a soft ass
Rock pool old sneakers to class
Introductions, the building of a plateau
Playin' dominoes wit the beer hoes
I thought Pink and B.D., be here forever
I thought Sandy Brock would play basketball forever
I thought Storm Fields would always give the weather
Momma said "never say never"
[Chorus x2]
[Outro: Solomon Childs]
Life, and that's the way it is
Solemnly swear, to always tell the truth
Tell you what I see...
That's what I'm here fore, autobiography
Life... Solomon marked for life, Solomon, Solomon
Solomon marked for life, Solomon, Solomon
All the creatures on the beaches
Making waves in a motion picture
Won't you keep this in between us
Search and seizure wake up venus
The dollar bill will mentally ill bill
Mom and dad take your don't be sad pill
Turn the screw and twist my language
Don't forsake me I'm contaigious
There's a reason
For the 21st century
Not too sure
But I know that it's meant to be
And that it's meant to be
It's my favourite combination
Coming down with the favoured nations
Deep rotation
Mutilation
Learn to give and take dictation
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, like the cain and able
Oh, oh oh, oh oh it's time to run this table
There's a reason
For the 21st century
Not too sure
But I know that it's meant to be
And that it's meant to be
Read me your scripture and
Read me your scripture
Read me your scripture and I will twist it
Show me your wrist and I
Show me your wrist and
Show me your wrist and I'll kiss it kiss it
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, Like the cain and able
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, it's time to run this table
Simple soldier
Hand it over
Stop and read what you just wrote her
Strangulation
Altercation
all the sex and bird migration
There's a reason
For the 21st century
Not too sure
But I know that it's meant to be
And that it's meant to be
There's a reason
For the 21st century
Not too sure
But I know that it's meant to be
Letç£ gratify your inmost desires
click it on ?thatç£ all you must do
and right on your screen thereç£ porno queens,
all the rest youç£e dreamed of, too.
Or check (out) the ultimative site where your needç£ satisfied
is this a brave new world for you
while thereç£ the KKK and a(nother) fascist regime
lurking out there still next door
[Chorus:]
In their factory of lies (Luckç£ for sale)
luckç£ for sale low price (Luckç£ for sale)
trouble-free and multi-coloured
your chance, you wannabe
... this is the 21st CENTURY
(Now) you can run free all fantasies
no more boundaries left for you
Get off on all kinds of perverties
and a death cell web cam, too.
What a glorious life, itç£ so easy and safe
as anonymous voyeur
but itç£ all bollocks to me Iç£ like to smash my TV
let alone the ads they show
[Chorus:]
In their factory of lies
everythingç£ so multi-coloured
A consumerç£ paradise
who thinks of poverty
21st CENTURY
[Chorus:]
In their factory of lies
futureç£ bright and nice
harmless, clean and multi-coloured
Don't drink,don't smoke
If you don't think, don't vote
Red light,don't go
Peep show, porno
But everybody's gotta live with their lives
So who decided what's wrong, what's right?
These are the days where anything goes
If you know the way when you're trying to save your
soul
These are the days yeah yeah,
These are the days yeah yeah,
21st centuty
Don't drink, don't drive
Give blood , save lives
If don't laugh , you'll cry
If you don't love,you might as well die
Eat bad , die young
You got talk shows , big guns
Stepdad, stepson
Love can get one
But everybody's gotta live with their lives
So who decided what's wrong, what's right?
These are the days where anything goes
If you know the way when you're trying to save your
soul
These are the days yeah yeah,
21st centuty
(These are the days...) These are the days ,
mmmmmkmmm.
These are the days where anything goes
If you know the way when you're trying to save your
soul
These are the days yeah yeah,
21ST CENTURY
I fell out kicking screaming
Three quarters through the twentieth century
Into warm hands that cured me so well
Curiosity helped with learning
And teachers tried to educate me
All is well I'm lucky don't you know
Then I nine to fived in a factory
To pay your way you have to earn it
I started getting doubts around that time
But progress keeps on thriving
And hopes are high for the twenty first century
We're closer now and lucky don't you know
Then I look around me
And wonder where I fit in
With all this sick delusion
I think I thought something then
Should I just let it go or use it
I don't ask much
I just want back what's mine
Help me find a place inside
I won't ask much
Just let me use what's mine
Feed me and I'll open wide
Possessions make for happy
And it's extra sweet if the taste's aesthetic
You can let them know with just a simple sign
Gone are days of fixing
And anyway you want the next thing
Don't know why but you need it all the same
Then I watch the TV
And I see where it begins
Our heads spun bland confusion
I think I thought something then
Should I just let it go or use it
Hey, it's worse than I thought
These fuckers don't rest
Nothing is sacred anymore
It seeps when you wake
It eats while you sleep
Perhaps it's time I started
i can't believe it, the way you look sometimes, like a trampled flag
on a city street, oh yeah, and i don't want it, the things you're
offering me, symbolized bar code, quick i.d., oh yeah, i'm a 21st
century digital boy, i don't know how to live (or read) but i've got a
lot of toys, my daddy is a lazy middle class intellectual, my mommy's
on valium, she's so ineffectual, ain't life a mystery i can't explain
it, the things they're saying to me, it's going yayayayayayaya, oh
yeah, i tried to tell you about no control, but now i really don't
know, and then you told me how bad you had to suffer, is that really
all you have to offer
Oh, I know that I'm guilty
Do I ever cross your mind?
Oh, I feel that you need me
I said, I have no time
I'm losin' more than I ever had
After all the love is gone
And the more I look it drives me mad
Where does my heart belong?
Oh, it's a 21st love century
It's love time for you and me
Baby, I love you for sure
Baby, I hold you once more
Baby, I'm dying for sweet love
Oh, it's a 21st love century
Don't you feel the energy?
Baby, I miss you for sure
Baby, I kiss you once more
Baby, I'm dying for sweet love, love
Will you love me tomorrow?
Oh, this love will miss a flame
In the world full of sorrow
Love's such a thing
Oh, the way I go, oh, the less you know
I feel passion, I feel pain
There's a broken heart and it tears apart
Leave me in the rain
Oh, it's a 21st love century
It's love time for you and me
Baby, I love you for sure
Baby, I hold you once more
Baby, I'm dying for sweet love
Oh, it's a 21st love century
Don't you feel the energy?
Baby, I miss you for sure
Baby, I kiss you once more
Baby, I'm dying for sweet love, love
Oh, it's a 21st love century
It's love time for you and me
Baby, I love you for sure
Baby, I hold you once more
Baby, I'm dying for sweet love
Such a rebel in a three-piece suit
Two inches higher in his Beatle boots
Travelling parties like a loaded gun
Cocked & shooting off all night long
Trying to __ lately, oh Lord don't hate me
Can't tell a lie to the woman that made me, oh no
Oh no, it's you
And a lie's not a lie if they know it ain't true
And you know it ain't true if it's coming from you, oh
Oh no, it's you
We are coming together, we are falling apart
Reaching the end, only the end of the start
Taking the pictures to remember the times
Remember the times when we were young in our life
He's a Magnum for the jukebox scene
Drinks and powder and the 'Village Green'
Passing the cable and we choose the tune
Old to your parents but fresh to you
Out on the pavement, making a statement
Got everything but a method of payment, oh no
Oh no, that's me
And the whole world's glowing at the change you made
But nothing feels different than yesterday, oh no
Oh no, that's me
We are coming together, we are falling apart
Reaching the end, only the end of the start
Taking the pictures to remember the times
Remember the times when we were young in our life
I've got memories of things I've never done
Some from when I'm older, some from when I'm young
I've got best friends that I never get to see
I hope I find the time, I hope they find the time for
We are coming together, we are falling apart
Reaching the end, only the end of the start
Looking at pictures to remember the times
Remember the times when we were young in our lives
Nothing works out just like the plans we made
Nobody gives, and if you want it you take
Everything's changing and that's fine with me
21st century, 21st century
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
I used to think my life was only up to me
But livin' life this way can be so lonely
Everyday with what it takes to stay alive
What we need is each other to survive
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
So reach out and take the hand
Head up above the sun
Reach out
Stop givin' love the third degree
It's time we found love for the 21st century
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
I used to think my life was only up to me
But livin' life this way can be so lonely
Everyday with what it takes to stay alive
What we need is each other to survive
So reach out and take the hand
Head up above the sun
Reach out
Stop givin' love the third degree
It's time we found love for the 21st century
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Da doo da doo da doo doo doo
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
The way you're looking at me
Don't want to get too sentimental
Celebrate the athlete
Don't open; confidential
Used to be more art-school
Now I'm speaking with an accent
Picking from a new pool
Are we in the past or present?
Countdown
Countdown
Countdown
To the 21st century
Countdown
Countdown
Countdown
Get them off of me
Too concerned with skin care
Never know what's fact or fable
Always something out there
Now we act like Cain and Abel
Entertaining downstairs
Chain-smoking on the davenport
Have you seen the dishware?
Throw the towels in and watch the
Countdown
Countdown
Countdown
To the 21st century
Countdown
Countdown
Countdown
Get them off of me
Countdown
Countdown
Countdown
To the 21st century
Countdown
Countdown
Countdown
Get them off of me
It's armageddon
It's armageddon
Burning the bed in
Sinatra Previn
It's armageddon
It's armageddon
7-Eleven
Met me in heaven
Fever has set in
Fever has set in
Open the portal
Why don't you get in?
Fever has set in
Fever has set in
Bread that's unleavened
Healing the bedouin
Countdown
Countdown
Countdown
To the 21st century
Countdown
Countdown
Countdown
Get them off of me
Countdown
Countdown
Countdown
To the 21st century
Countdown
Countdown
Countdown
No blind
No blind
I know something else to crush you into pieces
It’s coming right now
Here for nothing else except the ashes
Feed itself on infamy
No, there’s nothing strong enough between you and me
No, nothing’s strong enough to forestall me
Blind, they want to kill you
Blind, too proud to save you
I can feel it coming
We’re letting this growing inside
‘Cause we’re blind
I can feel it knocking
We’re letting this fucking inside
‘Cause we’re blind
We’re blind
This revelation, you think
Is making you stronger
Determination, you think
Is enough to fuck me deeper
No, there’s nothing strong enough between you and me
No, nothing’s strong enough to forestall me
Blind, they want to kill you
Blind, too proud to save you
I can feel it coming
We’re letting this growing inside
‘Cause we’re blind
I can feel it knocking
We’re letting this fucking inside
‘Cause we’re blind
We’re blind
What is the difference between me
And the twenty first century?
I can feel it coming
We’re letting this growing inside
‘Cause we’re blind
I can feel it knocking
We’re letting this fucking inside
‘Cause we’re blind
We’re blind
I know something else to crush you into pieces
It’s coming right now
Here for nothing else except the ashes
We used to sit around at night watching old time movie shows
Philosophize and analyze what we didn't know
No, no
You didn't know
(We didn't know)
We didn't know
(We didn't know)
What did you think?
(What did you think?)
We didn't think at all
We had the world in the palm of our hand
Then we turned around and dropped it
They tore it apart, then we up and ran
Cuz we knew we couldn't stop it, oh no
Where will we all be (Where will we be)
In the twenty-first century?
And now I sit at home alone watching new wave videos
Philosophize then realize that I'll never know
No, no
We'll never know
(We'll never know)
I'll never know
(I'll never know)
What do you think?
(What do you think?)
I still don't think at all
We had the world in the palm of our hand
Then we turned around and dropped it
They tore it apart then we up and ran
Cuz we knew we couldn't stop it, oh no
Where will we all be (Where will we be)
In the twenty-first century
In the twenty-first century
In the twenty-first century
In the twenty-first century
In the twenty-first century