Will Smith has introduced the date that his newest album can be launched as his imminent return to the world of hip-hop continues after a 20-year hiatus.
The actor-rapper-producer shared the information on Instagram on Sunday, writing in a put up that his new album is scheduled for launch in two weeks.
“It’s OFFICIAL!! My new album, Based mostly On A True Story, drops on March 28. TWO WEEKS!! Hit that presave. Been engaged on this challenge for a minute and I’m itchin’ to get it out to y’all 🫶🏾,” Smith posted on the social media platform to his 69.5 million followers.
The 14-track album will reunite Smith with DJ Jazzy Jeff and have collaborations with Teyana Taylor and Jac Ross. Smith launched a single, “Lovely Scars,” that options Huge Sean and Obangain, in January.
The enduring comedian and dramatic actor, and an Oscar winner for 2021’s King Richard, Smith has risen to the extent of a multihyphenate popular culture phenomenon over his profession, which started with rap music. He emerged from the fledgling hip-hop scene within the late Nineteen Eighties as half of the duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Recent Prince with prompt classics like “Mother and father Simply Don’t Perceive” and “Ladies Ain’t Nothing however Bother,” each of which got here with movies that loved heavy MTV rotation.
Smith’s long-running hit NBC sitcom, The Recent Prince of Bel-Air, featured his rapping, and as his Hollywood profession took off, his music profession flourished in tandem. At instances, his franchise and Hollywood blockbuster motion pictures, together with Wild Wild West and Males in Black, featured a title observe from Smith. His hip-hop profession hit a peak with 1997’s Huge Willie Type; he launched three extra data, Willennium (1999), Born to Reign (2002) and Misplaced and Discovered (2005), earlier than placing down the mic to concentrate on his profession in movie as an actor and producer.
As an icon of leisure for the final a number of many years, Smith continues to be, for a lot of, rehabilitating his popularity after the stunning second on the 2022 Academy Awards. This infamous Oscars second noticed the actor stroll onstage and slap Chris Rock throughout the face following a joke the comic made about his spouse, Jada Pinkett-Smith. The fallout of that second tarnished Smith’s popularity and led to him being banned from the Oscars for 10 years.
