Mike Epps is not a fan of Chris Rock.
During the January 7 episode of Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay, Epps revealed his issues with Rock.
“You think he ended Shuckey Duckey?” Sharpe asked.
“He did. He f**ked Shuckey Duckey’s career up,” Epps responded. “What little career there was.” They were referencing Rock dissing Ducky’s set on the Def Jam Comedy show.
“That n***a (Rock) went on one of their shows and said, ‘Shuckey Duckey needs some jokey wokeys,’” Epps continued. “See, that’s why Will Smith popped that n***a upside his head. I ain’t condoning, but I can see how a n***a would pop him upside his head.”
Epps then shared a story when he felt Rock had slighted him.
“He said some shit to me one time,” Epps said. “That motherf**ker walked up to me and said, ‘You can’t act rich if you ain’t rich.’ I said, ‘Huh? What the hell?’”
Epps said that Rock didn’t understand his persona.
“What he didn’t understand was I came from a drug-dealer world, so I always liked a little diamonds,” he explained. “He thinks I’m up there trying to make the people think I got show business money and said that shit to me. I said, ‘Man, I’m rich in a whole lot of ways. Ferret-looking ass n***a.”
Epps told Sharpe that he thought the infamous slap was a stunt until Smith returned to his seat and yelled at Rock.
“I knew it was real when I seen Will Smith’s face when he sat down,” Epps recalled, “When he said, ‘Keep my wife’s name [out of your fucking mouth]!”
Epps said he would’ve slapped Rock over the joke behind the scenes.
“I wouldn’t have done it in front of anybody. Not in front of the white people because it’s gonna fuck your money up and my money up,” he said. “As soon as the white people see you violent, they’re done.
Epps also said that he never tried to squash the beef with Rock because he doesn’t have “a relationship with him.”
“I don’t think he gets me, and I don’t get him,” he said. “Do I think he’s funny? Yeah. I think he’s funny as hell. But personality-wise, I’ve never met enough to know how cool he is. I really don’t know him, and he don’t know me like that.”