Current Events > Will Smith Dropped Out of Surprise Grammys Performance, Questlove Says

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https://variety.com/video/will-smith-grammys-hip-hop-tribute-questlove/

At the 65th Grammy Awards, the Academy is celebrating 50 years of hip-hop. According to Questlove, Will Smith was originally supposed to be a part of the tribute but had to back out due to production on Bad Boys 4. Ill give the spoiler alert away. Will Smith was apart of the festivities tonight, but they started shooting Bad Boys 4 this week, Questlove told Varietys Marc Malkin on the red carpet. There were a lot of preliminary shots that he had to do, so we had to lose Will. Questlove went on to say that he knew getting Smith for the tribute was a shot in the dark, because the actor is always shooting movies. The four-time Grammy winner said the celebration had a lot of people, and some of them have other jobs, adding that Ice-T, Queen Latifah and L.L. Cool J are all participating in the tribute but had to leave their respective shows to join the celebration. While he says the original tribute was going to be 23 minutes long, it has since been cut down to 14 minutes. Its going to be amazing, Questlove promised viewers on the red carpet. Smith announced Bad Boys 4 earlier this week in a video with his franchise co-star Martin Lawrence, who proclaimed, Its about that time!

I guess he is no longer cancelled and Hollywood moved on from him slapping someone at award show if Grammys almost had him appear.

Funny that Chris Rock does a tour for the first time in 5 years after the slap. Funny.

Dude released a movie on Apple TV a few months ago. He was never "cancelled"