Chris Rock joked about the Academy Awards ceremony drama just hours after Will Smith issued an on-camera apology to the comedian Friday, nearly four months after Smith stormed the Oscars stage and slapped Rock live on air as he was presenting an award at the 2022 ceremony.
While performing at Atlanta's Fox Theater as part of his "Ego Death World Tour," Rock compared Smith to the former Death Row Records co-founder, Marion "Suge" Knight, who is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter in 2018 following a fatal confrontation in Los Angeles in 2015. "Everybody is trying to be a f---ing victim," Rock said, via People magazine. "If everybody claims to be a victim, then nobody will hear the real victims.
Even me getting smacked by Suge Smith ... I went to work the next day, I got kids." During the peak of his career in the ‘90s, Knight was known for putting West Coast rap on the map with the massive success of Dr.
Dre’s "The Chronic" followed by Snoop Dogg's "Doggystyle" in 1993. Shortly after, he helped broker a deal to secure Tupac Shakur's release from prison and subsequent signing to the label, with his "All Eyez on Me" released in 1996. "Anyone who says words hurt has never been punched in the face," he added, words he's echoed in a previous show while touring recently with Kevin Hart on "Only Headliners Allowed." Chris Rock joked that he was slapped by "Suge Smith" at the Oscars following Will Smith's on-camera apology issued Friday. (Getty Images) Knight was known for music just as much as he was for his temper, and was allegedly the ring leader in a string of violent deals.
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