"Hard like geometry and trigonometry"

T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever) is the new solo single by shy and retiring punctuation fan will.i.am. It has a brilliant / ridiculous sci-fi video, in which Mick Jagger appears out of hyperspace and ruins everything.

Frankly, T.H.E. is a huge leap forward from the dead-eyed robotics of the Black Eyed Peas' last album, where will.i.am apparently checked in his brain and his talent at the studio door. Until Jagger comes along, you might even find yourself thinking "I really like this song". But that's only if you ignore the lyrics.

Let's take a closer look at those lyrics, shall we?

:: "Tell a jealous chicken I don't know what the beef is."
:: "This beat is a shit. Faeces."
:: "I'mma go hard like a m*****f***ing boner"
:: "I get stacks of cash, you get cashews. I go hard, uh, statues."
:: "I'm hard like Geometry, and Trigonometry."

It would not be a surprise if the album version of this song finished with Will rapping: "This beat is harder than writing lyrics for this beat".


Will.i.am. - T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)

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