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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 57588" data-attributes="member: 81">In news that you very well may have heard about, back in March, <a href="https://uproxx.com/movies/will-smith-chris-rock-oscars-punch/" target="_blank">Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars</a>. A footnote from that moment, though, is that Rock was on stage to give <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/questlove-drake-honestly-nevermind-gift/" target="_blank">Questlove</a> the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, for Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), a win that was of course overshadowed by what preceded it.Well, today, <a href="https://uproxx.com/movies/will-smith-oscars-slap-video-chris-rock/" target="_blank">Smith shared a video in which he apologizes to Rock</a> and also to Questlove (who, like Smith, is a Philadelphia hip-hop icon). In the five-minute video posted on Smith’s YouTube channel, an upload titled “It’s been a minute…” that takes the form of a Q&amp;A, Smith said of Questlove:Questlove hasn’t publicly said much about the incident. Shortly after it happened, <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/questlove-oscars-will-smith-slap-speech-rattled/" target="_blank">he shared a tweet</a> from somebody else that read, “I think the whole Will Smith assault rattled @questlove who had to give a speech like 90 seconds later. He couldn’t even remember the names of his co-winners. #Oscars.”Meanwhile, Joseph Patel, one of Questlove’s Summer Of Soul co-producers, <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/summer-of-soul-producer-joseph-patel-will-smith-selfish-slap-robbed-category/" target="_blank">wrote in part</a> around the same time, “Once we realized the Chris Rock/Will Smith interaction wasn’t a bit, everything got turned upside down. Everyone was still trying to make sense of it when Chris persevered &amp; started to read the nominees. I think what Will did was selfish. It robbed the category of its moment. It robbed the other excellent and amazing films of their moment to be acknowledged in what was a STRONG year for docs. And it robbed Summer of Soul and our team of our moment. Of a loud, enthusiastic cheer for a celebrated film. I feel bad for Ahmir. I feel bad for my fellow producers. I feel bad for our whole team. I feel bad for all the people watching and rooting for us. “<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/will-smith-questlove-apologize-oscars-slap/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="UPROXX, post: 57588, member: 81"] In news that you very well may have heard about, back in March, [URL='https://uproxx.com/movies/will-smith-chris-rock-oscars-punch/']Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars[/URL]. A footnote from that moment, though, is that Rock was on stage to give [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/questlove-drake-honestly-nevermind-gift/']Questlove[/URL] the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, for [I]Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)[/I], a win that was of course overshadowed by what preceded it. Well, today, [URL='https://uproxx.com/movies/will-smith-oscars-slap-video-chris-rock/']Smith shared a video in which he apologizes to Rock[/URL] and also to Questlove (who, like Smith, is a Philadelphia hip-hop icon). In the five-minute video posted on Smith’s YouTube channel, an upload titled “It’s been a minute…” that takes the form of a Q&A, Smith said of Questlove: Questlove hasn’t publicly said much about the incident. Shortly after it happened, [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/questlove-oscars-will-smith-slap-speech-rattled/']he shared a tweet[/URL] from somebody else that read, “I think the whole Will Smith assault rattled @questlove who had to give a speech like 90 seconds later. He couldn’t even remember the names of his co-winners. #Oscars.” Meanwhile, Joseph Patel, one of Questlove’s [I]Summer Of Soul[/I] co-producers, [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/summer-of-soul-producer-joseph-patel-will-smith-selfish-slap-robbed-category/']wrote in part[/URL] around the same time, “Once we realized the Chris Rock/Will Smith interaction wasn’t a bit, everything got turned upside down. Everyone was still trying to make sense of it when Chris persevered & started to read the nominees. I think what Will did was selfish. It robbed the category of its moment. It robbed the other excellent and amazing films of their moment to be acknowledged in what was a STRONG year for docs. And it robbed Summer of Soul and our team of our moment. Of a loud, enthusiastic cheer for a celebrated film. I feel bad for Ahmir. I feel bad for my fellow producers. I feel bad for our whole team. I feel bad for all the people watching and rooting for us. “ [url="https://uproxx.com/music/will-smith-questlove-apologize-oscars-slap/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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