Will Smith Debuts New Single ‘You Can Make It’ With Kirk Franklin, Fridayy and Sunday Service Choir at the BET Awards 2024

Two years later, Will Smith has made his triumphant return to the awards show stage.

Will Smith got his rap groove back at the BET Awards on Sunday night.The 53-year-old Oscar and Grammy winner performed his new single “You Can Make It,” a gospel-charged testimony — featuring Haitian-American singer Fridayy and the Sunday Service Choir — that was released on Friday.The performance marked the first time Smith appeared at an awards show since he infamously slapped comedian Chris Rock across the face for a joke at the expense of Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith.“The darker the hell you gotta endure/The brighter the heaven you get to enjoy/The harder the fall, the higher you soar/God opens a window when the devil closes the door,” raps Smith, sounding more like the Fresh Preacher.“Believe me, they tried to bleed Will Smith/In the rearview, I see adversity was the gift/To lift me higher gifts require faith/So dry your eyes and then you’ll find the way,” he continues over the take-you-to-church arrangement.It all continues the Oscar Slapgate redemption tour that Smith has been on since “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” opened to boffo box office on June 7, reestablishing the actor as a bankable movie star.But now, the “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” MC is looking to regain the music cred that led DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince to receive the first Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 1989.Smith wasn’t the only rap icon to take the stage at the 2024 BET Awards: Ms. Lauryn Hill celebrated the 25th anniversary of her Album of the Year Grammy win for her 1998 classic “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”Also performing at the show — hosted for the fourth time by Taraji P.

Will Smith performed his new single for the first time at the 2024 BET Awards held at Peacock Theater on Sunday night (June 30) in Los Angeles.

Will Smith has a new song out!

Palm Tree Music Festival, a traveling EDM extravaganza, with past locations in Bali, Cabo, Australia and Hawaii swooped into the Hamptons in New York on June 22.And, we had a blast.However, if you missed the Southampton fest, you need not fret. 2024’s final Palm Tree Festival is slated to take place at Lake Tahoe, NV’s Harveys Outdoor Arena on Friday, July 12.Headlined by household house names Gryffin and Disco Lines and featuring DJ sets from Drama and Vandelux, the one-day jamboree is a guaranteed good time for ravers, club-heads and the EDM-curious alike.Best of all, as of now, last-minute Palm Tree Tahoe tickets are still available.At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on general admission passes was $111 before fees on Vivid Seats.All prices are subject to fluctuation.Sofi Tukker says it best — there is nothing better than “Summer in New York.” That’s especially true when you’re spending it with a stacked EDM lineup in the Hamptons.For the first time ever, the Palm Tree Festival was held on land owned by the Shinnecock Nation in Southampton on June 22, as exclusively reported by Page Six.

Scots will be able to hop on a new EasyJet route in November when the budget airline launches its flights to Derry.

“Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York” (Monacelli, out now). It highlights more than 100 of the MTA’s newest commissions — mostly constructed with mosaics or larger pieces of metal or glass — added to the transit system from 2015 to 2023. Wanna check a few out? Grab your Metrocard and take one of these (mostly) subterranean sight-seeing tours mapped out by The Post with the aid of the new book.

A brand new deli is set to open in Manchester this summer. Tucked away on an Ancoats courtyard, Ancoats Deli will open this July.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Neil Young announced Wednesday that the remaining dates on the tour he has been doing with his longtime backing group Crazy Horse are being canceled, due to illness hitting “a couple of us” since they last performed in May. He did not specify whether he was among those stricken. The cancellations are for shows as far as three months out from now.

A court has heard of a chilling plot to murder ITV's Holly Willoughby, with the accused security guard purchasing a "kidnap kit" of rope, metal cable ties, and handcuffs. Gavin Plumb, 37, stands accused of devising a plan to kidnap and assault the beloved This Morning presenter over a span of nearly two years until his arrest last October.

Kim Gordon has dropped a discordant new single, ‘ECRP’, to coincide with a run of dates starting tonight (June 25).Following on from her trap-inspired album ‘The Collective’ earlier this year, Gordon’s new one-off single is a noisy, experimental affair that speaks of “rumours of free speech” and “ashes on the nightstand”.The video, meanwhile, was directed by Gordon’s daughter Coco Gordon Moore and features various shots of New York street scenes.Check out ‘ECRP’ below.Gordon plays London’s Koko tonight, kicking off a European tour, and will head to Birmingham for a gig at the O2 Institute2. The tour also includes various festival appearances at the likes of Glastonbury, Open’er and Roskilde.In a four-star review of ‘The Collective’, NME wrote: “Here the 70-year-old balances her less than commercial sensibilities with crunchily on-trend production and relatable lyrics about rotten capitalism and fragile masculinity – if these sound like themes she explored during Sonic Youth’s ‘90s heyday, it only goes to show how little has changed.”“It’s notable, though, how contemporary her distorted art-punk sounds, given the ongoing grunge resurgence and the fact that Olivia Rodrigo’s taking The Breeders on tour this year.

Will Smith has been confirmed to perform at the 2024 BET Awards.The actor’s attendance and performance at the upcoming awards show was confirmed on social media last night (June 24). It will be Smith’s first time attending the awards show since 2005.A post shared by BET Networks (@bet)Per a report from Variety, the actor will be performing an unreleased original track, though little else is known about his performance.

Get ready for a performance from Will Smith this weekend!

Justin Timberlake addressed fans again following his DWI arrest in Sag Harbor, New York, for driving while intoxicated or impaired.

Suede have previewed a new song titled ‘Antidepressants’ at their recent Isle of Wight 2024 set.Last night (June 22), frontman Brett Anderson introduced the song after performing the ‘Coming Up’ cut ‘Filmstar’. “Here’s a song we’ve been working on for our tenth album,” he told the crowd before revealing its name.‘Antidepressants’ features jagged post-punk guitars with verses delivered by Anderson in sprechgesang mode, before its anthemic chorus blazes through in true Suede fashion.

Blink-182 have kicked off their 2024 North American tour last night (June 20) and debuted a new song along with their classic deep cuts.The band – comprised of the original line-up Tom Delonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker – took over the Kia Center in Orlando Flordia last night to kick off their 2024 ‘One More Time’ tour.Comprised of 26 tracks, the night’s setlist included deep cuts such as ‘Obvious’ and ‘M+M’s’ which were played with Delonge for the first time since 2013. They also performed ‘When Your Heart Stops Beating’ and ‘There Is’ which are tracks from their side-projects +44 and Box Car Racer respectively.

Fontaines D.C. have released their brand-new wistful single, ‘Favourite’ – watch the nostalgic music video down below.The track is the latest to be shared from the Irish band, as they gear up to share their latest album ‘Romance‘.

With “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” doing incredibly well at the box office, it would appear the Will Smith backlash has officially died. He can still lead a profitable movie and attract millions of fans.

EXCLUSIVE: With Sony Pictures‘ Bad Boys: Ride or Die passing the $100 million domestic box office mark this past weekend, the studio and Will Smith are already looking to the future as he is attached to star in Sony’s Resistor.

Ethan Shanfeld Following the success of “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” Will Smith is teaming up again with Sony Pictures for the sci-fi thriller “Resistor,” based on Daniel Suarez’s 2014 novel “Influx.” The movie hails from Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Tony Shaw of Escape Artists, which has been developing the project for years alongside Smith and Jon Mone through Westbrook. Heather Washington is executive producing, and Dave Wilson is a producer.