Yes, August Alsina — the singer who was the opposite half of Jada Pinkett Smith’s romantic “entanglement” — watched Chris Rock’s comedy special. And he thought it was “funny.”
“August watched the Netflix special and he laughed,” a source told The Post. “He thought it was not only funny but truthful. That was the perfect part for him.”
On Saturday, Rock finally went public together with his thoughts on being slapped by Will Smith on the 2022 Oscars, with “Selective Outrage,” his live Netflix comedy special.
In it, Rock speculated that Smith smacked him not only over his joke about Pinkett Smith’s baldness (comparing the actress, who has alopecia, to “G.I. Jane”), but because Smith was unleashing built-up anger over her affair with Alsina.
“Everybody on the earth called him a bitch,” Rock said of Smith. “Everybody. Everybody. And who’s he hit? Me. A n—a he know he could beat. That is a few bitch-ass shit.”
The source suggested that, in Alsina’s eyes, Rock got it right.
“A whole lot of people spoke out against [Alsina],” said the source. “So he was completely happy to see that Chris Rock gave the impression to be advocating for the reality and never just making a joke.”
As Rock crowed about Smith in the course of the stand-up special: “His wife was f–king her son’s friend.”
Page Six previously reported that Alsina, now 30, and Pinkett Smith, 51, met in 2015 on the Wire Festival in London, where the Smiths’ kids, Willow and Jaden, were performing.
The singer quickly became a friend of the family, even vacationing the subsequent 12 months with the couple and their children in Hawaii.
But rumors began to swirl when Alsina and Pinkett Smith were photographed looking loved-up on the 2017 BET Awards.
“People were speculating,” said the source. “And [Will and Jada] have a really unique understanding. August was vindicated when he said he had a conversation with Will. It was a blessing given.”
In June 2020, Alsina told Angela Yee, host of “The Breakfast Club,” that he “sat down with Will and had a conversation on account of the transformation from [the Smiths’] marriage to life partnership … he gave me his blessing.”
A couple of days later, Pinkett Smith confirmed the “entanglement” in a discussion with Smith on her Facebook Watch series “Red Table Talk” — but told her husband that she didn’t consider it a “transgression” since the couple were on a break on the time.
“I used to be done together with your ass,” Will said on the time.
Looking back on all of it, the source told The Post, “[Pinkett Smith] definitely downplayed a four-year relationship. It was not an entanglement. And that’s what made it so unlucky. [Alsina] didn’t drag them in any interviews. It was not a scandal. It was just [Alsina] telling his truth and getting his life back.
“He was actually getting sick from [the stress of the romance]. Physically sick.”
Rock seems to imagine that the stress of all of it got to Smith, too
“Everybody in here been cheated on. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person who cheated on us, on television. None of us,” Rock said during his special.
“Like, ‘Hey, I used to be sucking someone else’s d–k. How did that make you’re feeling?”
Supposedly, Alsina, who left people wondering whether or not he was gay while appearing on VH1’s “The Surreal Life” (he isn’t; the would-be boyfriend turned out to be his brother Zu), was friends with Jaden.
