Last night, Chris Rock hosted his first live Netflix special, Selective Outrage, where he finally addressed the Will Smith Oscars slap.
He went into the topic during the show's final minutes, recalling how everything unfolded after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith not having any hair.
“Y'all know what happened to me, getting smacked by Suge Smith,” Chris said. “It still hurts. I got ‘Summertime’ ringing in my ears."
"But I’m not a victim, baby," Chris continued. "You’ll never see me on Oprah or Gayle crying. You will never see it. Never gonna happen. … No, I took that hit like [Manny] Pacquiao.”
"But Will Smith practices selective outrage," he added. "'Cause everybody knows what the fuck happened. Everybody that really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that shit. I didn't have any entanglements."
Chris said that the ridicule Will faced following the reveal of Jada's "entanglement" with August Alsina was really why he was upset, and he unfairly took it out on Chris.
“His wife was fucking her son’s friend," he said. "Now, I normally would not talk about this shit, but for some reason, these [N-words] put this shit on the internet. I have no idea why two talented people would do something that fucking low down. We’ve all been cheated on, everybody in here’s been cheated on. None of us has ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television. … Why the fuck would you do that shit? She hurt him way more than he hurt me. ... Everybody called him a bitch, and who's he hit? Me! A [N-word] he knows he can beat. That is some bitch ass shit.”
Chris said his "whole life" up until that point, he'd "loved" Will. "But now, I watch Emancipation just to see him get whooped!"
People obviously had a lot of reactions to it all online:
Chris Rock FINALLY got Will Smith ass 😭
Will Smith got it tonight from Chris, but Jada got it way worst and may I say deservedly so. Yes. Deservedly so. Chris got his Therapy tonight. Saw tears swelling up in his eyes after and I could tell this man has been hurting. #ChrisRock #Selectiveoutrage
Chris Rock was assaulted on live television and could have pressed charges but chose not to. He can talk all the shit he wants. I wish him nothing but more success and can't wait to watch his new special. #ChrisRock
I definitely understand why will slapped him. Ion care what my wife did to bring me “shame” don’t you speak on my wife boy. I’ll handle my shit with her, but don’t YOUR bitch ass say nun to her. And to know Chris Rock been antagonizing her for years? Mannnnnnn
Chris Rock said “you don’t fight in front of white people”, but had no issue calling a black woman a bitch in front of white people, negatively commenting on black women’s hair in front of white people, or letting white people use the N-word around him smh yo
Good morning: Chris Rock stood in front of a mostly white audience & made slavery jokes in front of them. Oh he did this in the hometown of the black woman he insulted in front of the world at the Oscars. If you’re black & applauding this, get help.