Will Smith will perform a new song at the BET Awards

The world may have briefly moved away from Will Smithbut there will always be a place for The Fresh Prince. Smith has strengthened his reputation in the entertainment industry after the 2022 Oscars, where he Chris Rock slapped on stage. The audience confirmed that they were still love Smith the actor with the solid box office success for Bad Boys: Ride Or DieBut it was the Fresh Prince who came out of hiding first – one of his most high-profile performances post-Slap was at the Grammy Salute To 50 Years Of Hip-Hop. Now, Smith is continuing his multi-faceted musical comeback with a brand new song set to premiere at the BET Awards on June 30.

Accordingly diversitySmith will perform this song onstage at the show, which will be hosted by Taraji P. Henson. “From his early days as a rapper on ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ to his box office success as one of the Bad Boys, Will Smith is a true global icon and we are honored to welcome him back to the BET Awards stage,” said Connie Orlando, EVP Specials, Music Programming & Music Strategy at BET, in a statement. “We look forward to Will contributing to another defining night for culture that will not be missed.”

Smith seems to have been slowly making his return to music for some time. In addition to the hip-hop anniversary performance, he recently performed his song “Miami” at the Premiere of Bad Boys: Ride Or Die and shared the stage for a surprise performance of “Men In Black” with J. Balvin at Coachella. Smith released his last solo single and album (Lost and found) in 2005. Last year Lucas Joyner announced that he had worked on an album with Smith, who was featured on Lucas’ track “Will (Remix)” in 2020. In May, Smith himself released teased to Extra that he has been working on a new project for a year and a half that is “without question the most personal, powerful music I have ever made.” Does that mean that his new songs will be about The Slap? His relationship (whatever that may be) with Wife Jada Pinkett-Smith? All other shockingly frank confessions from his memoirs will? We’ll have to wait and see.