Edit: Guys, it's Hollywood. He was sitting front row, nobody tried to stop him. Chris rock anticipated the slap. It was the most movie slap technique slap I've ever seen.
It was his good bye from Hollywood and he was forced to do it.
after watching this zoomed in a bunch of times Rock really is leading with his face towards Smith's hand and reacts as he swings but it's also possible he just figured out what Smith had in mind because they are friends or something and he read it in his face.
I have been (deservedly) hit by friends and known as the person was approaching me what their intent was.
He definitely looks ready for it though I agree with you on that part!
If that was planned it was genius and very elaborate, way more than the slap, but I don't see any reasons it wouldn't be real, other than my conditioned mind that won't accept it because it seems too good, but that's a fool's errand that will make you stoop into any theory possible.
Some things would need too much planning and cooperation between large groups of people to make it feasible and not become public.
I mean, cudos if they planned to unite bloods and crisps against exploitation in music industry and made it work. Respect if Drake would be an agent to bring down the Mafia structures in the music industry.
But that's unbelievable, as if he could've just gathered material and not be the worst of them all.
They were so close of taking completely over and switching to AI music, why would they throw that power away for a message of unity and against the machine, harming the UMG bottom line?
So no, I don't agree with you. I would argue that's real, even if I would hope for it to being a ploy of some sort for entertainment purposes and to get blown away.
Sometimes the stars just allign.
I salute you for entering my sinking ship though! We need more people that take some risks in their comments.