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‘I heard he won the Oscar but he had to give it back’: Will Smith gets jiggy with the Slap

Three years after the infamous incident at the Academy Awards, Smith is continuing to rap about his attack on Chris Rock on a new album

The first plays of his new album Based on a True Story have started to air, and it’s starting to look like an awful lot of it is about the moment when he interrupted the Academy Awards to approach Chris Rock, slap him, return to his seat and scream at Chris Rock, before winning an Oscar later and giving the most deranged speech in the history of the awards. It would be like, well, watching him dancing to Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It at the Vanity Fair party hours after exploding his career in front of millions of people. And this means we can all detach ourselves from the slap and let it be what it is; the second weirdest thing to happen during the Oscars, after Rob Lowe singing Proud Mary with Snow White.

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