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Will Smith announces first full-length album release in 20 years

Will Smith announces first full-length album release in 20 years
March 17, 2025

(CNN) โ€” Will Smith is returning to his first love.

The actor who rose to fame as a rapper announced he has a new album coming.

โ€œItโ€™s OFFICIAL!! My new album Based On A True Story drops March 28,โ€ Smith wrote in a post on social media. โ€œTWO WEEKS!! Hit that presave. Been working on this project for a minute and Iโ€™m itchinโ€™ to get it out to yโ€™all.โ€

His last album, โ€œLost and Found,โ€ was released in March 2005.

Smith also shared a track list for his new project, which includes collaborations with Teyana Taylor, Jac Ross and Obanga. DJ Jazzy Jeff, Smithโ€™s longtime friend and collaborator with whom he had the 1991 hit โ€œSummertime,โ€ is also listed on the opening track.

Smith released the single โ€œBeautiful Scarsโ€ in January. Shortly after, he spoke about how the new music is a departure from some of his previous work in an interview with โ€œBig Boyโ€™s Neighborhood.โ€

โ€œThereโ€™s a thing, thereโ€™s a brand that is Will Smith, you know, and the brand is slightly different from the man,โ€ he said. โ€œThe brand is just a really narrow slice of what the man is, and the man has expanded in a way that the brand can almost feel like a prison.โ€

The album release date news came the same weekend he and his โ€œFresh Prince of Bel Airโ€ costar Tatyana Ali recreated an iconic scene from their series, accompanied with an assist from Grammy-winning female rapper, Doechii.

Their TikTok performance was done to Doechiiโ€™s viral hit โ€œAnxiety.โ€

In April 2024, Smith made a surprise appearance during J. Balvinโ€™s Coachella set.

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