Future Black History Month: Willow Smith's Wonderful Weirdo-Pop

This year, Fuse has been celebrating an extended Black History Month by highlighting a variety of rising forces who are creating history before our very eyes. And 15-year-old Willow Smith is more or less the definition of "the future."

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's daughter dropped her first single in 2010, days before her 10th birthday. "Whip My Hair" had us spraining our necks and wondering if the new Rihanna was upon us, although such a simple interpretation would soon become impossible. Willow put out two more radio-ready singles in the following year—"21st Century Girl" and the Nicki Minaj–featuring "Fireball"—before veering abruptly off the pop star path.