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Will Smith announces first album in 20 years, Based on a True Story

Actor-rapper will release project on 28 March, including the song Beautiful Scars which makes reference to his infamous Oscars slap

A film released later in 2022, Emancipation, performed poorly, and Smith – once one of Hollywood’s definitive leading men who won a best actor Oscar for King Richard – spent time away from acting. In an interview about the song with the lyrics database Genius, he said: “I hate admitting that I’m only human – my ego wants to be Superman … The word I was thinking about when I thought about the last couple of years of my life was ‘brutaful’ – brutal and beautiful.” Shake the Room as DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince and the duo had another global hit with Summertime, before Smith went solo under his own name for the theme song to his film Men in Black.

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