Will Smith scored another box office hit with Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Despite the success of the action comedy film, sportscaster Stephen A. Smith still has an issue with the global superstar over the infamous Oscars slap in 2022—but Yung Joc is pushing back.
“You got to have a conversation as to why you did that,” Stephen A. Smith stated on his self-titled show about Will Smith smacking comedian Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards. “It’s primarily us as Black people who have loved and supported you and watched you go on an international stage and slap one of us in the face.”
Many social media users reacted negatively to Stephen A. Smith’s latest take on Will Smith. Yung Joc soon chimed in on the comments by the ESPN talking head.
“Nah… That was in him at that moment and he knows why he did it… We don’t need to know why,” Yung Joc posted in Hollywood Unlocked’s Instagram comment section. “[Will Smith] doesn’t owe us anything… If nothing else Black Men saw a Black Man slap another Black Man about his Black Woman.”
Will Smith’s onstage slap at the Academy Award ceremony came after Chris Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett’s shaved head. Pinkett has been diagnosed with alopecia areata which leads to hair loss. Smith later publicly apologized for his actions on Instagram and YouTube.
