{"id":2444500,"date":"2019-05-22T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=838803"},"modified":"2019-05-22T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:31:15","slug":"will-smith-taps-dj-khaled-for-new-version-of-aladdin-song-friend-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/will-smith-taps-dj-khaled-for-new-version-of-aladdin-song-friend-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith Taps DJ Khaled for New Version of \u2018Aladdin\u2019 Song \u2018Friend Like Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/will-smith-aladdin-song.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/will-smith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_will-smith\" data-tag=\"will-smith\">Will Smith<\/a> teams with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dj-khaled\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dj-khaled\" data-tag=\"dj-khaled\">DJ Khaled<\/a> for a new hip-hop version of \u201cFriend Like Me,\u201d a song from Guy Ritchie\u2019s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/aladdin-disney-will-smith-movie-review-835646\/\">live-action remake of <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aladdin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aladdin\" data-tag=\"aladdin\">Aladdin<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s1\">Smith adopts a suitably family-friendly, Fresh Prince-style flow for the cut, proclaiming the wish-granting gift of his character, Genie, over a booming bass riff, fluttering flute\/whistle and sitar lick. \u201cIt\u2019s the Ali Baba, it\u2019s the big papa,\u201d he declares, noting, \u201cThis is your chance, man \u2014 wish from the soul\/When I\u2019m out of the lamp, man, I\u2019m out of control.\u201d Later, between bursts of DJ Khaled hype, he requests, \u201cTell the angels and gods, pass the baklava.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to the updated \u201cFriend Like Me,\u201d <em>Aladdin<\/em> also features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/will-smith-genie-aladdin-remake-trailer-806931\/\">Smith fronting a version of the original song<\/a>, Alan Menken\u2019s Grammy-nominated big-band number originally sung by Robin Williams in the 1992 Disney film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The remake, out Friday, also stars Mena Massoud in the title role, along with Naomi Scott (Jasmine), Marwan Kenzari (Jafar), Billy Magnussen (Prince Anders) and Nasim Pedrad (Dalia). \u201cE<\/span>very time <em>Aladdin<\/em> drifts into bland or the songs take on the static feeling of a Broadway musical that\u2019s been running too long, Ritchie and the actors spring soaring, tumbling, freewheeling surprises that feed our rooting interest,\u201d our Peter Travers wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/aladdin-disney-will-smith-movie-review-835646\/\">his review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/will-smith-dj-khaled-aladdin-friend-like-me-838803\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith teams with DJ Khaled for a new hip-hop version of \u201cFriend Like Me,\u201d a song from Guy Ritchie\u2019s upcoming live-action remake of Aladdin. Smith adopts a suitably family-friendly, Fresh Prince-style flow for the cut, proclaiming the wish-granting gift of his character, Genie, over a booming bass riff, fluttering flute\/whistle and sitar lick. \u201cIt\u2019s [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 15:44:37","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}