Will Smith, Before the Slap

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Plenty has been said about Oscars night. But what about the rapper-turned-actor’s remarkable journey up to that point? Guest: Andscape's Soraya Nadia McDonald.

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0:00.0	We're going to the New York Times pop cast your metallic aftertaste of music news and
0:06.6	criticism.
0:07.6	I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:10.6	One thing that I have not been doing for the last seven to nine days has been getting
0:27.0	jiggy with it at all, not even a bit.
0:30.5	As those of you on the Facebook group know or might have noticed, I put a post up on
0:34.6	there.
0:35.6	I unfortunately got COVID first time.
0:39.2	What can you do?
0:40.2	I'm very, very fortunate that it was a mild case.
0:43.6	I do want to emphasize you do not want this.
0:46.6	Even a mild case was no fun and I was glad that I could get access to the antiviral drugs
0:51.9	because I had asthma.
0:54.2	But yeah, it's been a bumpy week, but I'm happy to be back.
0:57.1	I'm sorry I missed you all last week, but here we are.
1:01.0	One of the things that I had been wanting to talk about for a few weeks in the wake
1:05.1	of the Oscars was Will Smith, not because I want to talk about the slap, not because
1:10.6	I want to talk about what happened between him and Chris Rock, not because I want to talk
1:13.9	about the politics of his acceptance speech, none of that.
1:19.9	Just because for me, this pinnacle moment for Will Smith, where he ends up winning best
1:25.9	actor at the Oscars, really made me think about how little that I have read or heard, talking
1:33.5	about Will Smith and craft.
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