Will Smith Declares Launch Date for First Full-Size Album in 20 Years

Will Smith is able to return to his roots.

On Friday, March 14, the multi-hyphenate introduced that his first full-length album in 20 years, Primarily based on a True Story shall be arriving on Friday, March 28. Smith’s final album, Misplaced and Discovered, was launched in March 2005.

Smith’s 14-track album will function a wide range of collaborators, together with DJ Jazzy Jeff, with whom Smith first made his mark in music, Teyana Taylor and Jac Ross.

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“It’s OFFICIAL!! My new album Primarily based On A True Story drops March 28. TWO WEEKS!! Hit that presave. Been engaged on this venture for a minute and I’m itchin’ to get it out to y’all 🫶🏾,” Smith wrote alongside the discharge date and album cowl on Instagram.

He first introduced that he could be releasing a brand new album when he unveiled his newest single, “Lovely Scars,” in January. The observe is a collaboration with Huge Sean that includes Obanga.

The music video for the observe triggered a stir on-line, because it featured Smith taking part in Neo, The Matrix movie character he famously turned down to star in Wild Wild West. Huge Sean starred alongside him taking part in the position of Morpheus.

Different previously-released singles included on the brand new file embrace “Work of Artwork,” which options his son Jaden Smith and Russ, “Tantrum,” that includes Joyner Lucas and “You Can Make It,” which Smith carried out on the 2024 Wager Awards.

Smith beforehand opened up about how lengthy it took him to finish the venture in a Could 2024 interview with Additional.

“You recognize, I have been, this final 12 months and a half, I have been within the lab. I’ve a venture that’s, you recognize, with out query, essentially the most private and highly effective music that I’ve ever made,” he mentioned on the time. “So, you recognize, I’ll sneak that out on you in a month or so.”

On the identical day of his announcement, Smith additionally reunited along with his The Recent Prince of Bel-Air costar Tatyana Ali and Doechii to movie their model of her “Anxiousness” social media problem.

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Being that the net problem entails them doing dance strikes just like these he did on the hit tv present, he wrote within the caption of his Instagram video, “Waited 35 years for this dance to development.”