--- title: Carpool Karaoke Stars Will Smith as James Corden VIDEO description: The Fresh Prince appears in the premiere episode of the new Carpool Karaoke series by Apple Music, released Tuesday. Watch a clip here canonical: https://time.com/4892978/carpool-karaoke-will-smith/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-09T14:02:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:15.512Z og:title: Watch Will Smith Jam Out in the Carpool Karaoke Premiere og:description: The show also previews a star-studded first season og:url: https://time.com/4892978/carpool-karaoke-will-smith/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9faecb3f8e9886a5/6988d8ee196cf417380415fc/will-smith-carpool-karaoke.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: CARPOOL KARAOKE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Will Smith Jam Out in the Carpool Karaoke Premiere twitter:description: The show also previews a star-studded first season twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9faecb3f8e9886a5/6988d8ee196cf417380415fc/will-smith-carpool-karaoke.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Will Smith Gets Extremely Jiggy With a Marching Band in the _Carpool Karaoke_ Video You Need  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Aug 9, 2017 2:02 PM UTC  James Corden and Will Smith during Carpool Karaoke. James Corden and Will Smith during Carpool Karaoke.Terence Patrick/CBS  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Aug 9, 2017 2:02 PM UTC The Fresh Prince, himself, appears in the premiere episode of the new [Carpool Karaoke](http://time.com/4874242/carpool-karaoke-usher/) series by Apple Music, released Tuesday. A clip of the episode shows Will Smith and host [James Corden](http://time.com/4828303/carpool-karaoke-queen-latifah-jada-smith/) singing and rapping to some of Smith’s ’90s hits and chatting about whether he would play Barack Obama in a movie — something Smith discussed with the former president. “He told me that he felt confident that I had the ears for the role,” Smith said The clip also previews upcoming carpool appearances by Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys and John Legend, LeBron James, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ariana Grande, and Stark sisters Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner. The complete first episode is now available to watch on [Apple Music](http://apple music james coren will smith). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4892978/carpool-karaoke-will-smith/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4892978/carpool-karaoke-will-smith/"},"headline":"Will Smith Gets Extremely Jiggy With a Marching Band in the Carpool Karaoke Video You Need","datePublished":"2017-08-09T14:02:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:15.512Z","description":"The show also previews a star-studded first season","url":"https://time.com/4892978/carpool-karaoke-will-smith/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Apple","celebrities","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9faecb3f8e9886a5/6988d8ee196cf417380415fc/will-smith-carpool-karaoke.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9faecb3f8e9886a5/6988d8ee196cf417380415fc/will-smith-carpool-karaoke.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"CARPOOL KARAOKE","caption":"CARPOOL KARAOKE","creditText":"Terence Patrick/CBS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4892978/carpool-karaoke-will-smith/","name":"Will Smith Gets Extremely Jiggy With a Marching Band in the Carpool Karaoke Video You Need"}}]}] ```