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Will Smith and Chris Rock on Fresh Prince of Bellaire
While will is adapting his blackness to be more palatable to broad audiences chris was fighting to remain himself. Their differences become more apparent in 1995 when the two meet on screen for the first time. There's this implicit tension and sort of competition between the two. Chris might see them as celebrities who don't represent the average person let alone the average black person.