Will Smith performs new song, 'You Can Make It' at 2024 BET Awards

Will Smith stood in a circle of fire — joined by Fridayy and the gospel choir Sunday Service — to make the live debut of his latest single, 'You Can Make It,' at the 2024 BET Awards.

Will Smith stood in a circle of fire — joined by Fridayy and the gospel choir Sunday Service — to make the live debut of his latest single, “You Can Make It," at the 2024 BET Awards.

“I don’t know who needs this right now,” Smith opened his set. “But I am here to tell you, you can make it.”

Midway through, Kirk Franklin joined, and then two rapped together. “Nobody gets an easy ride,” Smith, who is in the midst of his comeback from slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars two years ago, told the room.

“There is wisdom in that fire. Dance in your darkest moments.”

Megan Thee Stallion opened the show by emerging from an egg — a metaphor for her a new musical rebirth — before diving into with an energetic medley of her new singles “Hiss" and “Boa.”

“BET, Where my girls at?" she said, shouting out Victoria Monét and Coco Jones in the crowd before launching into “Where Them Girls At” — a track that's been an immediate fan favorite since Friday's release of her third studio album, “Megan.”