Will Smith takes it to church on the BET Awards in first present look since notorious Chris Rock Oscars slap

The jiggy is again.

After the slap that shook the Academy Awards in 2022, Will Smith received his rap groove again on the BET Awards on Sunday evening.

The 53-year-old Oscar and Grammy winner carried out his new single “You Can Make It,” a gospel-charged testimony — that includes Haitian-American singer Fridayy and the Sunday Service Choir — that was launched on Friday.

The efficiency marked the primary time Smith appeared at an awards present since he infamously slapped comic Chris Rock throughout the face for a joke on the expense of Smith’s spouse Jada Pinkett Smith.

“The darker the hell you gotta endure/The brighter the heaven you get to get pleasure from/The tougher the autumn, the upper you soar/God opens a window when the satan closes the door,” raps Smith, sounding extra just like the Recent Preacher.

“Consider me, they tried to bleed Will Smith/Within the rearview, I see adversity was the reward/To raise me greater items require religion/So dry your eyes and then you definitely’ll discover the best way,” he continues over the take-you-to-church association.

All of it continues the Oscar Slapgate redemption tour that Smith has been on since “Dangerous Boys: Trip or Die” opened to boffo field workplace on June 7, reestablishing the actor as a bankable film star.

However now, the “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” MC is trying to regain the music cred that led DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Recent Prince to obtain the primary Grammy for Greatest Rap Efficiency in 1989.

Smith wasn’t the one rap icon to take the stage on the 2024 BET Awards: Ms. Lauryn Hill celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of her Album of the 12 months Grammy win for her 1998 basic “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”

Additionally performing on the present — hosted for the fourth time by Taraji P. Henson — had been Megan Thee Stallion, Ice Spice, Latto, Victoria Monét, Shaboozey, Tyla and Glorilla.