Will Smith targets Chris Rock in new freestyle
Will Smith has targeted Chris Rock in a new freestyle following the infamous slap at the Oscars in 2022. The rapper/actor appeared on the latest episode of Apple Music’s Fire in the Booth series with Charlie Sloth.
Smith slapped Rock three years ago after he made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and her shaved head, which is the result of alopecia. After walking on stage and hitting Rock, he shouted, “Keep my wife’s name out your fucking mouth.”
On Fire in the Booth, he revisits the incident by explaining that he doesn’t let people disrespect him.
He raps, “Now, I’m not the type of man to move in malicious ways, and I am too grown to play childish games/ But if you talking crazy out your face up on the stage and disrespect me on the stage, expect me on the stage/ Jokers dish it out, cry foul when it’s time to take it/ A city full of real ones, wasn’t raised to fake it.”
Smith previously addressed the incident on ‘You Lookin’ for Me?’, which appeared on his recent album, Based on a True Story.
“Took a lot, I’m back on top, y’all gon’ have to get acclimatеd,” he raps in the song. “Won’t stop, my shit’s still hot even though I won’t get nominatеd/ Personal life with my wife, mind your business, it’s complicated.”
The album’s opening track, featuring DJ Jazzy Jeff and B Simone, also includes a barbershop conversation with lines like, “I heard he won the Oscar but he had to give it back, and you know they only made him do that shit because he’s Black” and, “He’s only still relevant because of his kids.”
Smith released Based on a True Story in March, his first album in 20 years following 2005’s Lost and Found. The project featured Big Sean, Russ, Joyner Lucas, and his son, Jaden, but it failed to chart on the Billboard 200.
He returned with a new single called ‘Pretty Girls‘ featuring OBanga earlier this month, with the music video racking up 1.8 million views on YouTube.