In Based on a True Storythe actor returns to his career and evokes the episode of the slap he gave to Chris Rock during the 94e edition of the great mass of cinema.
Will Smith wasted no time to evoke the controversy of the Oscars in his new album, Based on a True Storyavailable since this Friday, March 28. It is actually, the first subject tackled through the song Int. Barbershop — Daywho opens the disc. “” Will Smith is canceled », Can we hear from the first minutes. The American actor and rapper here refers to the ” cancel culture “, the ” erasure culture In French, a practice of ostracizing people, groups or institutions accused of behavior or words deemed inadmissible.
« Who is Will Smith for? I will never forgive him for the bullshit he made », Can we hear, not from the mouth of Will Smith but that of Dj Jazzy Jeff & Simone, present on this title of 1 minute 55. The star of Prince of Bel-Air created the controversy during the 94e Oscar ceremony in 2022, after going on stage to slap the presenter Chris Rock. The artist did not appreciate the joke of the American humorist, who joked about his wife’s alopecia, Jada-Pinkett Smith, who suffers from this autoimmune disease causing the significant loss of hair and hair. He compared the hairstyle of the actor’s wife to that of Demi Moore in Equal (1997) in which the actress shaved her head. After slapping Chris Rock, Will Smith had returned to his place to shout him: ” No longer pronounce my wife’s name with your fucking mouth! »
The actor returned a few minutes later on stage to accept his Oscar of the “best actor” for his role as Richard Williams in The Williams method. An episode he always tells in Int. Barbershop – Day. “I heard that he had won the Oscar but that he had to return it / and you know, they only asked him because he is black. »» The rapper actually has never given back his trophy since the academy has never asked him, as recalled Variety . The latter preferred to ban it for ten years from the great American mass dedicated to the cinema. Will Smith, who was part of the academy’s jury also had to present his resignation and his apologies. A week after the event, Netflix announced to pause the production of the film Fast and loosein which he was the headliner. Finally, a few years later, the feature film will indeed see the light of day in 2026, with as expected, Will Smith in the main role. Since 2022, the actor has only appeared in the fourth part of Bad Boys.
A new album after 20 years of absence
The actor returns once again to this controversy in the second title of the Abum, You Lookin’ for Me?, where he rap: ” I cashed a lot but I am again at the top. You will have to get used to it. I’m not going to stop, even if now I will not be named ». Even if he can no longer attend the ceremony, he can always be named, recalls Variety. Based on a True Story is Will Smith’s fifth solo album, which had not released it for twenty years. This disc is presented a return to the artist’s career, with his ups and downs. “” Design this album allowed me to be more honest with me, more honest than I had never been. It will be the greatest creative period of my life ”, he says on social networks.