--- title: Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith Take Over Carpool Karaoke description: The 'Girls Trip' actresses take the wheel in a preview for the new 'Carpool Karaoke' series, a take on James Corden's hit skits. canonical: https://time.com/4828303/carpool-karaoke-queen-latifah-jada-smith/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-22T14:34:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:46.465Z og:title: Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith Own Carpool Karaoke og:description: These Queens just know how it's done og:url: https://time.com/4828303/carpool-karaoke-queen-latifah-jada-smith/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith Own Carpool Karaoke twitter:description: These Queens just know how it's done twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Preview Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith Turning Carpool Karaoke Into the Best Party Ever > Sponsored content. 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This time, your regularly-scheduled host [James Corden](http://time.com/4812549/emily-blunt-romeo-juliet/) is nowhere to be seen, taking much more than a back seat to the singing. Instead, the stars he’s wrangled onto the show are in charge of the action, as shown in a new preview for the Apple Music series. In the advance clip, [Queen Latifah](http://motto.time.com/4668985/queen-latifah-tracee-ellis-ross-aging-confidence/) takes the wheel as [Jada Pinkett Smith](http://time.com/4184380/spike-lee-oscar-boycott-oscarssowhite/) commandeers the passenger seat for an eventful cruise through the streets of Los Angeles, on a mission to promote their upcoming movie [_Girls Trip_](http://time.com/4764343/summer-movies-2017/item/girls-trip-july-21/). We get a peek at their karaoke skills to Prince and Cyndi Lauper’s classic “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” of course, as the two actresses are joined by their movie costars Tiffany Haddish and Regina Hall for some guerrilla marketing tactics. (Think: t-shirt cannons and personalized megaphone shout-outs as they roll down the street.) “Brother in the white truck, make sure you go see _Girls Trip_. You’re lookin’ good!” they say at one point. “Take your baby mama, your other baby mama, your other _other_ baby mama…” The expanded Carpool Karaoke series comes to us thanks to the success of _Late Late Show_ host Corden’s viral segments with guests like [Harry Styles](http://time.com/4781058/harry-styles-carpool-karaoke/), [Katy Perry](http://time.com/4781564/katy-perry-carpool-karaoke/), and [Michelle Obama](http://time.com/4416799/michelle-obama-carpool-karaoke-james-corden/), which usually span about ten to fifteen minutes, while these episodes will run for thirty. Corden’s latest piece, [with Ed Sheeran](http://time.com/4805897/carpool-karaoke-with-ed-sheeran/), has racked up more than 23 million YouTube views. 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