Will Smith on Graham Norton: ‘I’ve recorded 25 new songs and I’m playing UK summer shows with DJ Jazzy Jeff’

The Fresh Prince reveals he’ll be making a musical comeback in the near future
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Ben Travis29 January 2016

Get ready everyone: Will Smith is about to make a musical comeback.

The rapper-turned-actor has been mostly focused on his big-screen career since the early Noughties, but now he’s revealed that he’s recorded around 25 new songs.

Even better: he’ll be making a live comeback too, and will be playing UK shows in the summer with DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Revealing the news on the Graham Norton Show, Smith said: “I’ve been working on something and this time I’m not lying!

“We’ve recorded about 25 songs and have four or five I actually like![DJ Jazzy] Jeff and I will be back here [in the UK] this summer to do shows – real shows.”

What say-what-what?

If it all comes about, this would mark Smith’s first full return to music since his 2005 album Lost and Found. In 2015 he contributed guest vocals on Bomba Estereo’s Fiesta (Remix), to much excitement from his fans.

Here’s hoping we’ll all be able to sit back and unwind with some brand new Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff jams this summertime.

BBC One, 10.35pm

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