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It was the slap seen world wide, and Will Smith isn’t shying away from it.
The actor and rapper has his first album out in 20 years. On his new music, Smith addresses the 2022 Oscars incident in which he hit comic Chris Rock.
Rock was presenting an award and made a joke about actress Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, which didn’t to go over properly together with her husband, Smith. He walked up on stage and slapped Rock, an act which earned Smith a decade-long ban from the Academy Awards.
His new album, “Based on a True Story,” contains the monitor “Int. Barbershop — Day,” which opens with the road, “Will Smith is canceled.”
It options Smith’s longtime collaborator DJ Jazzy Jeff, in addition to social media influencer B. Simone. Multiple voices are heard chatting about Smith because the track begins.
“I heard he won the Oscar but he had to give it back/ And you know they only made him do that s**t because he’s Black,” somebody says.
The identical yr Smith slapped Rock, he received the very best actor Oscar for his position in “King Richard.” (Smith was not required to return his award.)
Another voice says: “Him and Jada both crazy girl, what you talkin’ bout?/ You better keep his wife’s name out of your mouth,” a reference to Smith yelling at Rock to “keep my wife’s name out of your mouth” earlier than he took to the stage.
“Took a lot, I’m back on top/ Y’all gon’ have to get acclimated/ Won’t stop, my s**t still hot/ Even though I won’t get nominated,” Smith raps on the monitor, “You Lookin’ For Me?”
Smith has previously publicly apologized to Rock for hanging him and later released a video in which he expressed that he was “deeply remorseful” in regards to the incident.
Rock later addressed the assault in a 2023 stand-up special.