Will Smith and Ellen Alaverdyan.Photo: will smith/instagram
Will Smithis gettin' jiggy with it again.
The musician and actor posted a video of himselfrapping his hit song “Just the Two of Us"alongside 10-year-old bass playerEllen Alaverdyanon Instagram.
The young musician — who boasts close to 200,000 followers on Instagram — regularly posts videos performing hit songs, and in January, she shared a video playing thebass line of “Just the Two of Us.”
On Thursday, Smith, 54, shared an update to her video that included him rapping his 1998 hit as she played the bass.
“Wow!!@ellenplaysbass, this is FANTASTIC. You are the Sweetest!” he wrote alongside the video. He also tagged singerJac Rossand jazz pianistEric Lewis, asking them to “put somethin' on it” — and Ross did just that,sharing his rendition of the songlater on Thursday and adding his vocals to Smith and Ellen’s version.
“@willsmithTHANK YOU FOR THIS MAGIC ❤️❤️❤️,” Ellen captioned arepost of Smith’s video, writing in a comment of his original post, “❤️❤️❤️❤️ THANK YOU WILL 🌟.”
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It’s been a while since Smith has performed. He was set to make his musical comeback at theGrammyslast month, buthad to cancel the surprise.
The Fresh Prince was originally supposed to be part of the awards' 50th anniversary of hip-hop tribute performance,Questlove— who produced the over-10-minute-long performance — toldVariety. HostTrevor Noahhad previously insinuated there would be afew surprise performances, but Smith had to drop out after starting to shootBad Boys 4.
“I’ll give the spoiler alert away.Will Smithwas a part of the festivities tonight, but theystarted shootingBad Boys 4this week,” Questlove, 52, toldVarietyon the red carpet. “There were a lot of preliminary shots that he had to do, so we had to lose Will.”
Smith andMartin Lawrenceannounced thatBad Boys 4was officially happeningon Jan 31. The franchise stars shared the news on their respective Instagram accounts, posting the same video that they each captioned, “IT’S ABOUT THAT TIME!”
“I wish I was you not knowing what I’m about to show me,” theOscarwinner told the camera.
Upon arriving at his costar’s home, Smith greeted Lawrence, 57, who opened the door and asked with a smile, “It’s about that time?”
After the two cheered and embraced, Smith turned the camera on them both and confirmed jubilantly, “It’s about that time!”
source: people.com
