Will Smith
Confronts Chris Rock Oscars Slap on New Album
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Will Smith is addressing his notorious Oscars slap — and all the bags that got here with it — head-on on his new album.
Smith’s album “Based mostly on a True Story” dropped on Friday — his first full-length solo challenge in 20 years, and it instantly confronts the fallout from slapping Chris Rock.
The album’s opening track, “Int. Barbershop – Day” — that includes DJ Jazzy Jeff and B. Simone — kicks off with the road, “Will Smith is canceled.”
From there, it is all riffing and gossip about Smith, with traces like, “Who the f*** Will Smith suppose he’s?” and “I ain’t by no means gone forgive him for that stuff he did.”
The Chris Rock slap then turns into the primary focus: “I heard he down unhealthy / I heard he received the Oscar however needed to give it again / And you recognize they solely made him do this s*** as a result of he is Black.”
Price noting … Smith didn’t need to return his Oscar. You may recall, the Academy banned him from attending the ceremony for 10 years.
The track then nods to Will’s notorious outburst defending Jada Pinkett Smith — “You would like you had a Jada Pinkett subsequent to you / Him and Jada each loopy – woman, what you speaking ’bout / You higher hold his spouse’s identify out of your mouth.”
Smith is not achieved reflecting on the 2022 incident … within the track “You Lookin’ for Me?” he raps about making his comeback — “Took so much I’m again on high / Y’all gon’ need to get acclimated / Received’t cease my s*** nonetheless sizzling / Although I received’t get nominated.”
It has been 3 years because the “slap heard world wide,” however clearly it is nonetheless high of thoughts for Smith — and he is acquired loads to say.
