Will Smith’s latest music release presents a feeble justification for his actions towards Chris Rock.

0 years, however, and he voluntarily resigned with an apology.Smith seems to be all up in his feelings about the people who kicked him when he was down. But the song’s second track, “You Lookin’ for Me?” boasts that he’s too powerful to stay low for long. “Took a lot, I’m back on top / Y’all gon’ have to get acclimated / Won’t stop, my shit still hot / Even though I won’t get nominated.” Another point of clarification: Smith is still eligible to be nominated for Academy Awards. But as the first nominee/winner to assault a presenter during an awards show, such an honor is indeed unlikely.

As clapbacks go, this is pretty mild stuff, which makes sense with the incident now three years in the rear-view mirror. And the lyrics are nowhere near as vicious as Rock’s takedown of Smith on his live Netflix special Selective Outrage. Rock made a meal of noting all the people who called Smith a bitch. The comic even called out Pinkett Smith as the true subject of Smith’s ire: “His wife was fucking her son’s friend.”It would have been weird if Smith didn’t address The Slap somehow — it’s been the dominant narrative of his 2020s showbiz career. But if his take on the Rock attack seems weak, it’s likely because he knows there’s no way to defend it.