{"id":973936,"date":"2019-12-08T11:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T18:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923824"},"modified":"2019-12-08T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T18:07:04","slug":"see-will-smith-perform-fresh-prince-lullaby-at-times-squares-big-sleep-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/see-will-smith-perform-fresh-prince-lullaby-at-times-squares-big-sleep-out\/","title":{"rendered":"See Will Smith Perform \u2018Fresh Prince\u2019 Lullaby at Times Square\u2019s \u2018Big Sleep Out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10494419g.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/will-smith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_will-smith\" data-tag=\"will-smith\">Will Smith<\/a> performed in Times Square to hundreds of people sleeping outdoors Saturday night in honor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigsleepout.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">World\u2019s Big Sleep Out<\/a>, a worldwide fundraiser to end homelessness. Events in New York, London and New Delhi were just a handful of the 50 events that took place around the world to raise money and awareness for the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who performed a rendition of the theme song for his hit \u201990s show <em>The Fresh Prince of Bel Air<\/em> as a \u201cbedtime story,\u201d told the crowd how his role as homeless man Chris Gardner in his 2006 film <em>The Pursuit of Happyness<\/em> changed him, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/12\/08\/will-smith-performs-in-times-square-sleepout-to-address-homelessness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0muhoMmmQY?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><br \/><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y9r65liiRhA?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes me emotional thinking about it right and you know to not have a place to go and go be able to lay your head down with your children at night is a horrendous tragedy,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.7518796992481\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will Smith speaking at World&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BigSleepOut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#BigSleepOut<\/a> in Times Square <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gDVKEHa4FF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gDVKEHa4FF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kadeem Lundy (@KLunJuly9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KLunJuly9\/status\/1203512082785812480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">December 8, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the London event, which took place in Trafalgar Square, Dame Helen Mirren took on the duties of reading a bedtime story, while <span>musicians Jake Bugg and Tom Walker performed.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B5zSF9KnmVY\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-7.02\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>In Pasadena, California, Ziggy Marley, Ellie Goulding, Meghan Trainor and Sean Kingston kept provided entertainment for crowds at the Rose Bowl, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/07\/nyregion\/homelessness-sleepout-times-square.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The goal of the Big Sleep Out was to raise $50 million for local and international charities with 50,000 people participating and sleeping outside. <span class=\"s1\">\u201cHaving worked with homeless people for the last seven years, I know how invisible and forgotten people can feel. What the incredible 60,000 people who slept out all over the world have done tonight is to shine the spotlight on this global issue and show that we care,\u201d Big Sleep Out founder Josh Littlejohn said in a statement. \u201cI am truly blown away by the response to our campaign, in NYC and all over the world, and am sincerely grateful to every single person who has given up their beds tonight to raise the funds and awareness needed to make an impact. I hope that what happened in this campaign demonstrates a clear mandate for political action to tackle the homelessness crisis in NYC and all over the planet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/will-smith-fresh-prince-times-square-big-sleep-out-923824\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith performed in Times Square to hundreds of people sleeping outdoors Saturday night in honor of the World\u2019s Big Sleep Out, a worldwide fundraiser to end homelessness. Events in New York, London and New Delhi were just a handful of the 50 events that took place around the world to raise money and awareness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 13:20:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}