“I’m Ready” by Jaden Smith

In the middle of November, PlayStation came out with their new Ps5 and there’s no question about why the Ps5 and its games received so much hype. The Ps5 features a wide variety of games, but the most popular game of them all? Marvel’s Spider-man: Miles Morales.

Starting with the game’s storyline, and ending with the background music, the coders killed it on this game, hiring a small pop-up artist named Jaden Smith. His song, which features him combining singing and rapping, plays while swinging through the buildings in Morales’s home city of Manhattan.

The song starts off slowly talking about “swinging through the kingdom in the night” and how “Pete told me I was next.” The artist is referring to the part of the game where the original spider-man leaves on a work trip and gives Miles Morales, the other spider-man, the responsibility of protecting Manhattan.

As the song rhythm picks up, Smiths sings “I got somethin’ to prove to show to the world.” This and the line “They think I’m way too young to stand up for the ones I love” refers to when a super villain named “Rhino” ridicules Morales as they fight. “You are too young to do any real damage,” the villain says. These lines portray the artist’s beliefs and  Morales’s insecurities. According to Smith, Morales feels like the shoes he has to fill, the original Spider-Man’s shoes, are too big and that he is too young and inexperienced to protect the city he loves by himself.

The verse after, the song launches into full speed with an “I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready” showing that later on in the game, Morales builds confidence and believes he believes in himself that he can take on the world and protect the ones he loves.

“I’m ready to take on the world,” Smith sings. “You can’t stop me now.” This last line inspires me and makes me feel like I can do anything I set my mind to which is what makes it my #1 song.