Watch Will Smith Perform ‘Miami’ at ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Premiere
Will Smith reprised his 1997 song “Miami” at the Los Angeles premiere of his new movie, Bad Boys: Ride or Die. The actor and his co-star, Martin Lawrence, arrived at the event on an open-top tourist bus along with some of their fellow cast members.
After rapping “Miami” off his LP Big Willie Style, Smith introduced his fellow actors and hyped up the crowd with a call-and-response of “When I say bad, y’all say boys.”
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die marks the fourth installment in the Bad Boys movie franchise. The film, directed by Adil & Bilall, stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence alongside Vanessa Hudgens, Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Tiffany Haddish, and DJ Khaled. It is set to hit theaters June 7. Black-Eyed Peas recently dropped a song for the film, “Tonight,” which features El Alfa and Becky G.
Smith recently told Vibe of the sequel, “It’s a popcorn movie. It’s fun, it’s exciting. You laugh, you cheer, but really, at the core of it, you’re laughing, but it’s some powerful concepts in there. What Mike is struggling with, and how he makes his way out of that… I just love being able to touch on those concepts and ideas. [Like] Mental health and then connect it to spirituality, all in a way that’s fun, so it is not getting hit over the head. I love being able to do that in a summer blockbuster.”
Although Smith has been focused on his acting career for the past few years, he did join J Balvin onstage at Coachella in April as his iconic Men in Black character, Agent J. Balvin and his dancers, dressed as bright green extraterrestrials, shrugged in sync with Smith in a performance of his 1997 “Men in Black” theme. Smith ended the cosmic boogie by flashing his neuralyzer, a.k.a. the memory-wiping secret gadget seen in the film franchise. Balvin previously soundtracked 2020’s Bad Boys for Life with the Black Eyed Peas collab, “Ritmo.”
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