We won’t bury the lede. Yes, it goes there. Will Smith was not quite a full-blown, A-list movie star when mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer cast him in a buddy-cop action movie in 1995. He was still better known as the Fresh Prince than King of the Summer Blockbusters; compared to his …
Read More »Watch Will Smith Perform 'Miami' at 'Bad Boys: Ride or Die' Premiere
Will Smith reprised his 1997 song “Miami” at the Los Angeles premiere of his new movie, Bad Boys: Ride or Die. The actor and his co-star, Martin Lawrence, arrived at the event on an open-top tourist bus along with some of their fellow cast members. After rapping “Miami” off his …
Read More »Watch Black Eyed Peas, El Alfa, Becky G Team Up for Slick 'Tonight' Video
Black Eyed Peas tapped El Alfa and Becky G for a lively music video for their joint single, “Tonight.” The track, which will appear in forthcoming action flick Bad Boys: Ride or Die, was previously teased in the movie’s trailer. The futuristic video sees the musicians performing the song inside …
Read More »J Balvin Welcomes Will Smith (and an Alien Invasion) at Coachella
The Latin Grammy-winning Colombian artist J Balvin parked a ginormous inflatable spaceship on Coachella’s main stage Sunday night, kicking off an epic reggaeton rave under the stars. Balvin opened the festivities with his 2017 moombahton smash, “Mi Gente,” the same song he performed with Beyoncé during her historic Homecoming show …
Read More »Dave Chappelle's 'The Dreamer' Proves He's Obsessed With Trans People
Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer, the comic’s seventh stand-up special for Netflix, opens with a quote about the nature of success by Henry David Thoreau before capturing the comic in stark black-and-white, moving through the crowd in slow-mo (cigarette in hand, naturally) to Radiohead’s “Daydreaming,” like a championship boxer before a …
Read More »DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince to Celebrate Hip-Hop Like Nothing Happened Last Year
Parents just don’t understand, and they haven’t been alone in trying to make sense of Will Smith’s angry assault on Chris Rock a year and a half ago at the Oscars. Perhaps to remind the world that he was once wholesome and didn’t have to cuss in his raps to …
Read More »Will Smith Calls Relationship With Jada Pinkett Smith a 'Sloppy Public Experiment in Unconditional Love'
Will Smithopened up about his “tumultuous” relationship withJada Pinkett Smith, who recently revealed they were separated for six years before the infamous 2022 Oscars slap. The actor joined his wife onstage during her visit to Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Library promoting her new memoirWorthy. “I just really wanted to come out …
Read More »Jada Pinkett Smith Reflects on Tupac Kiss, Oscars Slap, and Will Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith is baring it all ahead of her new book, Worthy. On Friday night, Pinkett Smith sat down with Today‘s Hoda Kotb and discussed her “complicated marriage” to Will Smith, the infamous Oscar’s slap, and her healing journey in an NBC News primetime special that aired Friday. The …
Read More »Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith Were Separated for Six Years Before 2022 Oscars Slap
Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that she and husband Will Smith “had been living separate lives” for nearly six years and were attending the 2022 Oscars “as family, not as husband and wife,” when Will slapped Chris Rock over a joke he made about Jada. In an excerpt from her upcoming …
Read More »From 'Entanglements' to Private Separations: A Timeline of Will Smith and Jade Pinkett Smith's Marriage
The recurring pattern in Will Smtih and Jada Pinkett Smith‘s marriage is one of public defenses and reconciliations — and private rifts and separations. Maybe that’s the way all celebrity relationship struggles should go, but tabloid fodder and the rumors that these stars do choose to comment on often leave …
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