Will Smith Announces Release Date for ‘Based Upon a Real Story,’ His First Album in 20 Years

Will Smith is back! The super star exposed on Friday (March 14) that Based Upon a Real Story, his very first album in more than twenty years, will be getting here on March 28.

” Been dealing with this job for a minute and I’m itchin’ to get it out to y’ all,” Smith composed on Instagram, together with a variety of marketing images for the album, in addition to the complete tracklist. The 14-track album functions formerly launched songs “Puppy love,” “Lovely Scars,” “TEMPER TANTRUM,” “Masterpiece,” and ” You Can Make It,” in addition to partnerships with DJ Jazzy Jeff, Teyana Taylor and Jac Ross.

See Smith’s posthere

Back in January, Smith opened to Signboard about his choice to launch an album twenty years after his last record, 2005’s Lost and Discovered “A well opened within me, a well of understanding of art and discomfort … all examples that I didn’t even understand remained in there,” he stated. “Then after the Oscars, that spiritual examination continued and an universe awakened inside that I didn’t even understand existed. Dreams, visions; parts of my inner landscape that I had no awareness of previous to 3 years back. Which opened this bubbling to share what I’m seeing and experiencing, to check out. A huge part of my music now has to do with that: the delighted sort of delight I keep in mind from church when I was maturing; the capability to attempt to make this location more manageable. You understand, I have actually constantly had a wild creativity; that belongs to who I am. However there’s something brand-new occurring with me that’s requiring I check out musically.”

Smith has actually likewise meant prepare for 3 albums under the Based Upon a Real Story banner (which he explained to Signboard as “3 seasons of a television musical program”).