{"id":24047,"date":"2019-05-21T09:27:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1043176"},"modified":"2019-05-21T09:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:27:16","slug":"you-better-believe-it-will-smith-proves-he-can-still-get-jiggy-wit-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/you-better-believe-it-will-smith-proves-he-can-still-get-jiggy-wit-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You Better Believe It: Will Smith Proves He Can Still Get Jiggy Wit It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It feels like we’re back in the Willennium\u2014and we’re certainly not complaining.<\/p>\n

To kick off his appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/em> today, Will Smith<\/a><\/strong> walked out on set to his 1997 hit “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It”<\/a>\u2014and proved to fans that, even at 50, he can still do just that. As the audience danced (and cheered) along, the singer-actor rapped along<\/a> to the cult classic’s first verse and<\/em> chorus. <\/p>\n

After the captivating and impromptu performance, the Aladdin<\/em> star<\/a> joked to host Ellen DeGeneres<\/a><\/strong> that there would be na na na na <\/em>follow-up interview. “Thanks a lot Ellen, it’s been great,” he said. “That’s all we have time for! Thank you very much everyone.”<\/p>\n

For her part, DeGeneres was in awe. “Hi Will, that was enjoyable!” she said. “I had a front row seat to that wonderful performance of yours.” All that magic before he had even sat down!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Later, joined by his Aladdin<\/em> co-stars<\/a> Mena Massoud<\/strong> and Naomi Scott<\/strong>, Smith opened up about stepping into Robin Williams<\/a><\/strong>‘ iconic Genie character<\/a>\u2014and how he relied on his own Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<\/a><\/em> experience to make it his own. <\/p>\n

“The music is where I found my in to the Genie,” the actor, wed to Jada Pinkett-Smith<\/strong>, explained. “‘A Friend Like Me’ was the first song that I messed with in the studio and then I found that hip hop flavor.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“I was like, ‘Oh, I can just use my Fresh Prince<\/em> persona and use that ’cause the Genie’s been forward and back in time, so he can pull references from anywhere,” he continued. “So I mirrored that. The hip hop in was where I saw I could put my own signature while maintaining the nostalgic value.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch Smith’s full, epic performance above!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Rozman\/Warner Bros. It feels like we’re back in the Willennium\u2014and we’re certainly not complaining. To kick off his appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today, Will Smith walked out on set to his 1997 hit “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It”\u2014and proved to fans that, even at 50, he can still do just that. As the audience danced (and cheered) […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 18:28:51","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":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}