Suge Smith's Ripple Effect

Will Smith finally speaks out about the slap on Oscar night.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is still trending this story. Will Smith Steve has
finally started talking about slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.
He stayed quiet, you know, for several months. Will upload
it an emotional video to YouTube to discuss what he
did and to apologize to Rock. Take a listen, I

(00:22):
will say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My
behavior was unacceptable, and I'm here whenever you're ready to talk.
I can say to all of you, there is no
part of me that thinks that was the right way

(00:46):
to behave in that moment. There's no part of me
that thinks that's the optimal way to handle a feeling
of dis respect or insults. The slap earned Will, of course,
a ten year ban from the Academy. He closed his

(01:07):
message by saying, I hate when I let people down,
so it hurts It hurts me psychologically and emotionally to
know I didn't live up to people's image and impression
of me. Chris Rock, for the most part, hasn't directly
responded to Will's apology. What he did do was incorporate
the situation into his act. Everybody is trying to be

(01:28):
an effing victim. He said. This was during a gig
at Atlanta's Fox Theater on a theater on Friday night.
If everybody claims to be a victim, then no one
will hear the real victims, even me getting smacked by
Shug Smith. I went to work the next day. I
got kids. Yeah, he called Will Smith's Shug Smith. You know. Anyway,

(01:51):
he said, I went to work the next day, I
got kids. Anyone who says words hurt have never been
punched in the face. So yeah, well, what do you
think about Will's apologies? Well, you know, here's what I
think happened. I think Will was completely shocked and caught

(02:11):
off god by the backlash because I think it was
the first time in his life in career, because he's
been a nice rapper. Parents just don't understand men and
black and for the first time he felt the masses
and the venom of the general public. He realized the

(02:32):
ramifications of that slap wasn't jes Chris, but he ruined
the oscars for a lot of people that night, for
Will Packer, for the executive coexecutive producer for Quest Love
right after him, for the three women that hosted it
for the first time, even for his own Oscar he

(02:54):
ruined that night because the night became about the slap.
I like the fact that he apologized to it's his mother,
I think that, And I liked the apology overall because
it took time because he had to go away, man, see,
and he didn't know what that was like. So this
was huge for him because he came back and had

(03:17):
to realize. Man, the ripple effect was way more mad.
That's why he went away. You ain't seeing him on
social media, nothing, nothing, So you're saying that's what took
him so long to apologize. He had, he had to
go away and deal with him. Man, he'd been in
the India. You don't understand, man, when you think you
way all liked and you find out you ain't. Hey Man,

(03:39):
that public thing hurts. Now. Look, I haven't done anything
like that, but you know what I mean. But like,
hey man, when I made the mistake on Miss Universe, Man,
that backlash was wicked. Man. I couldn't believe the amount
of uproar worldwide. Nah, I didn't slap nobody. I just

(04:01):
made a public error. But oh my goodness, it took
me a week man to balance myself. It don't take
me three months because I'm a different dude than Will Smith.
I've already been kicked and murdered, so it wasn't new
to me. I was used to not nobody likeing me had.
I had big ass lips and a studding problem, so
I was I was cool with that. But Will, this

(04:23):
is a brand new shot for Will. Oh no, man,
this was too much for Will. And then you coming
off of the heels of the why you did it,
and then he had to relive the Jada thing about it.
You didn't slap that boy that had that entanglement. Oh man,
oh brother, and then he lost the respect of the academy,

(04:44):
and he lost the respect of his peers, and that
crumble Will. I like his apology. I accepted. I will
not be able to go on and watch King Richard
because when people ask forgiveness, that's our job. You know,
Chris is a whole nother matter. But I can move
forward now because I'm not wanting to keep a person,

(05:04):
you know, tied up and held to bondage over mistake
they made because I made him. Yeah, And when we forgive,
because we want to be forgiven, You're exactly right now,
give us our trust passes as we forgive those who
trust passed against us. So he say he's sorry. I'm
cool with it. Now it's people going. You can keep
your apology them people, no matter what. For those for

(05:29):
those that hate you, no apology accepted. For those that
love you, no apology necessary. But since you gave it,
and I was cool with Will, I could be cool
with that because he got it right. And I think
I like the fact that he didn't do it on
red table because then it would appear like, oh, y'all

(05:50):
trying to get some more damn views. I think I
like him going setting up a camera by himself and
doing it that way and addressing some of the stuff,
some of the real, more prominent questions that the social
media was putting that. So I liked it. I like
to response. I mean, it's cool. You know, Chris got
to work it out a different way. Well, he's making

(06:12):
still making money off of it too on tour, so
Chris is you know, well, Sully, he ain't making money
off of that funny he's been making money. He's of
course he's funny. Of course he's funny, but people still
want to go see him and see what he has
to say about the slap. I mean that's still act
right now, that fifteen second routine ain't making no money

(06:34):
sho Okay, all right, then we'll move on. How about that,
Let's do that coming up in twenty minutes, ninety eight
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