Will Smith Announces Release Date for First Full-Length 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, Based on a True Story will likely be arriving on Friday, March 28. Smith’s final album, Lost and Found, was launched in March 2005.

Smith’s 14-track album will characteristic quite a lot 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 Based On A True Story drops 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 wrote alongside the discharge date and album cowl on Instagram.

He first introduced that he can be releasing a brand new album when he unveiled his newest single, “Beautiful Scars,” in January. The monitor is a collaboration with Big Sean that includes Obanga.

The music video for the monitor brought about a stir on-line, because it featured Smith enjoying Neo, The Matrix movie character he famously turned down to star in Wild Wild West. Big Sean starred alongside him enjoying the function of Morpheus.

Other previously-released singles included on the brand new file embody “Work of Art,” which features his son Jaden Smith and Russ, “Tantrum,” that includes Joyner Lucas and “You Can Make It,” which Smith carried out on the 2024 Bet Awards.

Smith beforehand opened up about how lengthy it took him to finish the challenge in a May 2024 interview with Extra.

“You know, I’ve been, this final yr and a half, I’ve been within the lab. I’ve a challenge that’s, you already know, with out query, essentially the most private and highly effective music that I’ve ever made,” he mentioned on the time. “So, you already know, I’m going to sneak that out on you in a month or so.”

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

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Being that the web problem includes them doing dance strikes much 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 pattern.”