In a stand-up set earlier this month, Chris Rock's brother Tony Rock made it clear that he's still unhappy about the infamous 2022 Will Smith slap at the Oscars.
In a clip shared on his Instagram account, as seen below, Tony performed at Funny Bone in Virginia Beach and brought up the moment again. "I can't leave until I do this last thing on my list of things to do," he told the audience. "I have to get Will Smith. Oh yeah. Y'all thought that shit was fucking over? That shit ain't fucking over. I'm just laying low right now... The Oscars right around the corner, we ain't forget. Motherfucker fucking hit my brother. Don't nobody hit my brother but me. And even I got to clear that shit with mommy first."
After getting some laughs from the audience, he recalled how he met with his brother two days after the incident. "First order of business: 'Are you okay?'" he continued. "'Yeah, man, I got slapped.' 'Yeah, you did, yeah.' I said, 'Second: N***a, you have not been out the hood that long that you forgot how to slide on a motherfucker.' ... He stood there like a fucking lawn jockey."
He added that things wouldn't have gone down the way they did if he was there, or at least, he would've responded to the situation and got onstage too. "If I was there, the Oscars would have to go to a commercial and never came back," he joked.
In 2022, shortly after the incident, Tony Rock appeared on the Top Billin' with Bill Bellamy podcast and implied he thought the reason Will Smith slapped his brother was because of Jada Pinkett Smith's relationship with 2Pac.
“I think that [Oscar Slap] was the accumulation of him being slapped on other levels,” Tony explained. “He said it himself, he always hated the ‘soft moniker.’ He’s soft, Jada won’t let 2Pac die, it’s always something about 2Pac and his daughter [Willow Smith] brought up 2Pac. And I’m not bringing up family stuff that people don’t know… this is stuff that everybody knows.”
In 2023, he claimed that Will Smith lied about reaching out to his brother to bury the hatchet.
