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Will Smith addresses his infamous Chris Rock slap from the 2022 Oscars in his new “Based on a True Story” album — boasting that he’s officially “back on top.”
His first track, “Int. Barbershop — Day,” features Smith’s “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” collaborator and B. Simone and includes differently pitched voices exchanging jabs about the actor’s reputation.
“Will Smith is canceled,” says a voice-over in the opening line, as another replies: “Oh you can’t cancel no icon.”
“Who the f–k Will Smith think he is? And that boy damn crazy how he raising them kids … And I ain’t never gon’ forgive him for that s–t he did.”
“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,” the song continues. “Bottom line y’all, Will Smith is wack / I mean, he rich, funny and sexy too / You wish you had a Jada Pinkett next to you / Him and Jada both crazy girl, what you talkin’ ’bout? / You better keep his wife’s name out of your mouth.”
“One classic album, what that make him? Jay-Z? / Jay-Z plus movies and TV,” the track goes on.
At one point, a voice says, “He need to take another year and untangle some s–t,” which could be in reference to Pinkett Smith’s “entanglement” with singer August Alsina.
On the second track, “You Lookin’ for Me?,” Smith leans into his hopeful comeback and declares: “Took a lot, I’m back on top.”
“Y’all gon’ have to get acclimated / Won’t stop, my s–t still hot,” the unrepentant star continues. “Even though I won’t get nominated / Personal life with my wife / Mind your business, it’s complicated / All that matters is the fact that I’m still getting compensated.”
Despite his lyrics, Smith did not have to return his Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in “King Richard.” He won the golden statue moments after he stormed onto the stage and slapped Rock across the face for poking fun at his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who was sitting in the audience with him. The joke was about her shaved head; the actress has alopecia, which causes hair loss.
When he returned to his seat, Smith shouted back: “Keep my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth!”
Smith was, however, banned from the Motion Picture Academy for 10 years over his conduct. He made a public apology to Rock, saying in part: “I’m human and I made a mistake and I’m trying not to think of myself as a piece of s–t.”
An Oscars producer went on to say that Rock was “in shock” and claimed the comedian jokingly said backstage that he just got hit by Muhammad Ali. Smith played the boxer in the 2001 sport drama “Ali.”
Nearly one year later, Rock joked about it again during his live Netflix stand-up show “Selective Outrage” in March 2023.
“Everybody knows, yes it happened, I got slapped a year ago — I got smacked by this motherf–ker. And people are like, ‘Did it hurt?’ It still hurts. I’ve got ‘Summertime’ ringing in my ears,” he said at the time, referring to Smith’s 1991 hip-hop hit with DJ Jazzy Jeff.
“I am not a victim. You will never see me on Oprah [Winfrey] or Gayle [King] crying. Never going to happen … I took that hit like [boxer Manny] Pacquiao. I took it like motherf–king Pacquiao. Did it hurt? Yeah motherf–ker, it hurt.”
Pinkett Smith, for her part, was “shocked” by Smith’s actions, as she later revealed that the couple hadn’t “called each other husband and wife in a long time.” They married in 1997.
“I’m like, ‘What is going on right now? Keep my wife’s name out of your mouth?’ I’m really worried for Will because I don’t know what’s going on,” she told Hoda Kotb while promoting her memoir, “Worthy,” in October 2023.
They also had been separated for six years at that point.
“We’re still figuring it out,” Pinkett Smith told People magazine about the state of her marriage. “We’ve been doing some really heavy-duty work together. We just got deep love for each other and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us.”
She later clarified they gave their marriage another shot. “After all those years trying to figure out if I would leave Will’s side, it took that slap for me to see I will never leave him,” she told the Daily Mail in December 2023. “Who knows where our relationship would be if that hadn’t happened?”
The pair have two children: son Jaden, 26, and daughter Willow, 24. He also has 32-year-old son Trey with his first wife, Sheree Zampino.
Smith has been on a redemption tour since the scandal. He has been vocal on social media — recently joining in on a TikTok trend with former “Fresh Prince” co-star Tatyana Ali — got a street named after him in Philadelphia and reunited with Martin Lawrence for 2024’s “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.”
His new 14-track album is his first full-length solo music project in 20 years, following 2005’s “Lost and Found.”