The jiggy is back.
Following the slap that shook the Academy Awards in 2022, Will Smith obtained his rap groove back at the Bet Awards on Sunday evening.
The 53-12 months-old Oscar and Grammy winner carried out his new solitary “You Can Make It,” a gospel-charged testimony — that includes Haitian-American singer Fridayy and the Sunday Services Choir — that was introduced on Friday.
The overall performance marked the very first time Smith appeared at an awards clearly show considering that he infamously slapped comedian Chris Rock across the confront for a joke at the price of Smith’s spouse Jada Pinkett Smith.
“The darker the hell you gotta endure/The brighter the heaven you get to love/The more challenging the tumble, the better you soar/God opens a window when the satan closes the doorway,” raps Smith, sounding far more like the Refreshing Preacher.
“Believe me, they tried using to bleed Will Smith/In the rearview, I see adversity was the present/To lift me larger presents have to have religion/So dry your eyes and then you will discover the way,” he proceeds around the choose-you-to-church arrangement.
It all carries on the Oscar Slapgate redemption tour that Smith has been on since “Bad Boys: Trip or Die” opened to boffo box workplace on June 7, reestablishing the actor as a bankable motion picture star.
But now, the “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” MC is searching to regain the music cred that led DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Clean Prince to acquire the to start with Grammy for Finest Rap General performance in 1989.
Smith wasn’t the only rap icon to consider the stage at the 2024 Wager Awards: Ms. Lauryn Hill celebrated the 25th anniversary of her Album of the Year Grammy acquire for her 1998 common “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”
Also doing at the demonstrate — hosted for the fourth time by Taraji P. Henson — have been Megan Thee Stallion, Ice Spice, Latto, Victoria Monét, Shaboozey, Tyla and Glorilla.
