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Will Smith Reveals What Inspired New Music in Chat With Russ

'Work of Art' is the second single from Smith's first album since 2005.

I had recorded probably 20 tracks before that and there was the old constellation of ideas of who I thought I needed to be that was coming through in the music.” He also touched on what inspired this new voice and sound of his. “It was really the first time in my life since childhood that I got the shit kicked out of me,” Smith said in regards to the media backlash he received after his infamous Oscars slap. Smith debuted the lead single of his upcoming project — tentatively titled Dance in Your Darkest Moments — during the BET Awards.

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