Fats Joe, the manager producer of BET Hip-Hop Awards, revealed to Folks that he tried to persuade Will Smith to carry out on the Oct. 10 present.
The “Lean Again” rapper wasn’t certain how Willy from Philly would have been acquired given his 2022 Oscar debacle, the place he slapped presenter Chris Rock and was banned from the Oscars for 10 years. Smith, 55, has stored public appearances to a naked minimal since attacking Rock.
Fats Joe, 53, was hyped in regards to the Oscar-winning actor probably performing his 1991 mega-hit “Summertime.” Though it might have been a shock if he had pulled it off, Smith turned it down as his schedule didn’t enable the time essential to carry out.
“He’s filming Dangerous Boys,” Fats Joe mentioned.
“However we tried. We attempt to pull off a miracle if we are able to. We attempt to pull a cloud out of the sky.”
Earlier than the present aired on BET, Fats Joe promised to tug out all of the stops in his return because the award present host.
“It’s going to be sick. General, it’s a dream come true for me. It’s the second 12 months I’m doing the Hip-Hop Awards, however I all the time suppose again to being in junior excessive and doing the expertise exhibits after which Apollo Theater Beginner Night time and all of it results in this. And so it’s an honor for me.”
Fats Joe lately returned to his hometown borough of the Bronx to donate over $100,000 in clothes to youngsters for the present faculty 12 months, together with sweatsuits, tracksuits, t-shirts, shorts, and sneakers on Sept. 2 as he hosted a back-to-school clothes drive at The Eagle Academy for Younger Males.
He made the identical gesture at I.S. 219 New Enterprise Faculty and on the elementary faculty he attended as a teenager, P.S. 146 Edward Collins.
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