Actor Jussie Smollett performed in concert at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on Saturday night. It was his first public appearance since he was allegedly attacked in Chicago earlier in the week.
The Empire star performed to a packed house that included director Lee Daniels and California Rep. Maxine Waters.
Smollett, 36, spoke out about the alleged attack in which 2 masked men punched him in the face, poured bleach on him, and tied a “noose” around his neck after hurting racial and homophobic slurs.
“I fought the f*ck back,” Smollett told the cheering crowd.
“The most important thing that I can say is to keep it simple and say thank you and I’m okay,” Smollett said. “I’m not fully healed yet, but I’m going to and I’m going to stand strong with you all. I had to be here tonight. I couldn’t let those motherf*ckers win.”
Chicago police reviewed hundreds of hours of video footage but failed to find a single sign of the attackers.
Smollett initially told police he was attacked after he left a Subway restaurant on his way to his manager’s apartment around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Video footage inside the lobby of his manager’s high-rise condominium shows Smollett still holding onto his Subway sandwich after the alleged attack.
Smollett told the sold-out club that he didn’t break or bruise any ribs, as was originally reported.
After landing in Los Angeles, he said he “immediately” went to his doctor who gave him the okay to perform.
He added, “I’m the gay Tupac!”
Fighting back tears, Smollett urged his fans to “Be blacker, be gayer!”
Smollett shouted out to his boyfriend who was in the audience. He called him his “man” and thanked him for standing strong through the chaotic week’s events.
Toward the end of his set, Smollett performed his song “Heavy” from the scripted Fox TV show Empire. He explained that the song’s lyrics had new meaning.
“So, I will always stand for love, I will never stand for anything other than that,” Smollett told the audience. “Regardless of what anyone else says, I will only stand for love and I hope you will all stand with me.”
Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images
WTF
I liked him more when he didn’t talk so much. ?
What on earth is this! He’s def a weirdo and a liar.
He should let his reps speak on the “alleged” incident going forward. Sounds like an idiot, like he’s trying to be the poster boy for black gays. If he is found out to be a liar he is going to set any movement he could’ve started back quite a bit.
He’s got some serious issues being ok with lying then using it for press.
For real
What in thee hell?!?! Smollet need to go somewhere and sat that as down……sounds as though he is havinga melt down….his statement makes no sense….he finna lose the lil credibility he had left.
This guy is disgusting to bring Tupac name up into his feces laden lifestyle
Let’s leave Tupac outta this. Tupac is a legend and Tupac died after being gunned down. Pipe down
The more he speaks clearly attest to the agenda most all speculated out of this big ole lie..He need to be smacked down a peg or two! The nerve..
I hope PAC comes back from the dead and smack this mofo right in the phawking mouth.
PAC had heart! Every mofo that using his name for clout could never have the heart PAC had!!??
What a damn disgrace
Keep this dude AWAY from black children!
100%
“Video footage inside the lobby of his manager’s high-rise condominium shows Smollett still holding onto his Subway sandwich after the alleged attack.“
I wonder how many people are buying subway today for the big game??? Subway Corp is laughing all the way to the bank with all this free publicity smh.
First of all Tupac was not out at 2am in Chicago looking for bussy bussy. Second, this martyr act is going overboard . Third why hasn’t the sandwich he was holding on to been quarantined and why are you not giving up the cellphone to corroborate your suspect sorry claim.
Interesting… The gay Tupac?? Ok
THANK YOU.
? it is so blatantly obvious how they are pushing this gay agenda. ????? I just can’t take these folks seriously.
He got what he wanted. A sold out concert.
Sounds more like he knows his story is suspect and the truth about his late nite rendezvous will be coming out soon. Guilty ass is now crying he is the gay Tupac to save face and act like he is being persecuted. Lying ass
Don’t drag the departed Tupac into your shenanigans. Just shut up already! You manage to sound more ridiculous each time you speak.
He is dangerously manipulative abusing civil rights wordage to guilt and impose a gay agenda on young black minds. He has been fully indoctrinated into the Hollywood gay agenda by Lee Daniels. The whole attack scam and his gay mafia initiation are so blatant.
Exactly. The next thing he’ll get as a reward for his lies is a new record deal. Columbia dropped his deal the last time.
FAR FAR AWAY!!!
Right, what does Tupac have to do with this foolery?
One thing Pussie Jussir is PIPING DOOOOWN!
My thought also, what makes him the gay Tupac, I surely don’t get the reference.
Perhaps, only time will diffuse a apocryphal narrative but until a modicum of truth prevails Jussie, pretermit false and fanciful comparisons.
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Interesting theory!
This lying a$$ negro has the temerity to invoke Tupac’s name??!!?? Tupac’s lineage was BLACK PANTHERS, not the cartoon and movie variety, but people who had a cause that they believed in and were jailed for. Jussie doesn’t believe in a damn thing except self-promotion, and will tell any lie to achieve that goal.
Lol! I’m on my way there now.
Love the attached quote. I’ve always said ‘ the truth can stand alone but a lie will always need a crutch!’
Wow if he can hold onto a footlong sandwich during a violent attack by 2 fully grown men he is in the wrong field. He needs 2be a football player holding onto a football being attacked by the players while he goes for a touchdowm.
Troubadour = gay club, West Hollywood = gay city. He’s with his peeps. Anywho, this case is going to be closed w/o resolution. Nothing there. It was freezing cold outside, nobody on the streets — NOBODY. Transit is shut down because of the weather. And he walks about 2-3 blocks to Subway (doesn’t call for room service); then he walks back to his hotel and is jumped by two WHITE men (tourists?) who supposedly can recognize him at 2 am in the freezing cold. I live in Chicago and if white men are going to jump a gay man it will be in Boystown about 2 miles outside of downtown Chicago.
This was either a hook-up gone bad; or a robbery gone bad; or a drug meetup gone bad.
And why, Jussie, won’t you and your Manager (boyfriend?) give the police your cell phone to verify that you were talking to each other??? Hmmm….??
Lol you silly
Smell-let go sit yo gay behind down somewhere.
He threw me off with the gay tupac smh
cause they lying and they know.
it was a lie empire is now un-pire and he needs to straighten up
That is the truth. A poor or homeless man will hold onto a subway sandwich for dear life while being attacked in the cold. A wealthy man with money will let it go n the sandwich was still nicely wrapped like it hasnt been touched.
liberalism and this gay agenda is killing our community…
Don’t forget, “I fought the f*ck back,” Smollett told the cheering crowd.
Really Jussie?
Have a seat somewhere.
Wasn’t sold out before and now it is.. Smh lol and where was his man when he was getting beat up? That was a huge question on my mind. I wasn’t sure if he was seeing someone or not.
Wow cursing n quoting tupac. I guess he can say he has street cred now. Wow we r all excited.?
Leave Pac out of this sir
All of that just 2 introduce your new dyck 2 the world by giving him a shout out. Cant take it.
!!!.
BINGO!
Tfoh. There was only one Tupac Jussie. You could never…
Please tell me that’s a typo and that he really didn’t say he’s the gay Tupac! ? That’s a mfing insult to Pac ?.
This man is irreversibly cancelled.
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I still fux with you Jussie. At this point though….chill out. We may never know the whole truth about his ordeal but I believe something bad did happen to him.
Dude is getting annoying af!
Jussie is a typical liberal, Demoncrat, anti-The Donald, deceitful, SJW, LBTQZRST idiot. I’m not surprised Mad-Maxine was in the audience. She’ll praise a pile of sh%t as long as it/they are anti-The Donald. Anybody supporting the Demoncrats, SJWs, libtard, white liberals, BLM, victim mentality, deragned people are part of this baby killing, anti-family, communist group. Pitiful
Da fucc????? Is this kneegrow and his inflated ego serious? I guess he’s ready to die like Tupac then. Lying ass!
I work for CTA, we was shut down? Yall just making up all kinds of stuff cus you ain’t got no sympathy for the gay boy getting jumped.
He still had his sandwich in hand, nothing happened to him. He got his dick sucked and a sammich, he’s good. I want to know if he ate that sammich because if he did we know this is complete garbage. There’s no way I would have an appetite if I was attacked and brutally beatened.
It’s true and I don’t like the publicity and agenda stunt at all. It was unnecessary. Empire and Star were already giving visibility to those communities. This was a maneuver to make Jussie larger than Empire famous which means Empire crosses over from black television famous to mainstream. Hollywood is a machine.
He’s so wrong for that. I bet Lee Daniels wrote that script.
Jussie is lying and it’s frightening he’d lie like this to get bigger fame. This is a mockery of oppression because he could have really been attacked and so many black men actually are attacked due to oppression. No need to lie.
He’s full of shyt…still waiting on the real version, starring dicks, drugs, and orgies!!!
Uhh ruh ok…
not my Demographic, and will not give AF.
Cant wait for his lover 2 get mad n turn on his azz. Its gonna be juicy chile.
Liberals don’t see anything wrong with lying to promote their agenda.
Honestly how I felt since this tale broke.
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Yes, the media will say anything to sell a story.
Well that’s very unfortunate because black oppression doesn’t need doubt casted upon it. He involved the police in a social climate where police brutality against black people gets covered up all the time.
He wasn’t jumped.
Gay Tupac? Now this mf has gone to far!
AMEN.
21 savage arrested by ICE… they say he’s really an illegal alien Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph?
Lol they will say anything to justify their theories ???
He could have drop it and pick it back up after the altercation
THIS! Pay attention people.. Imposters are EVERYWHERE ???
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Wait so he is British omg!!
I just saw the story, totally thought it was a hoax. But, it was reported on real news sites. After he was just on IG saying he’s wearing stolen rapper chains all year. Wow good riddens to him if this is true.
You mean the “altercation” that lasted all of 60 seconds (the only time he was out of camera range before emerging with the rope around his neck) That was a hell of a lot to happen in such a short period of time, and STILL have time to hold onto your expensive phone and retrieve your sandwich.
You know Amber Rose dropped that dine on him… She must’ve seen him with a BAAD chick?
They too much, these theories. Never even been here to know it’s a Dunkin/7-11/Subway on every corner here. it’s nothing to walk to one at 2AM in the cold.
He has no hint of an accent or anything sounds like straight out the a.
At this point I’m more concerned about the traumatized subway sandwich. It seems like the sandwich was the only genuine victim that will survive this train wreck of a fabricatied table read.
“I’m the gay Tupac!” “Be blacker, be gayer!”
WTF is this MF talking about?!… I can NOT!!
With bleach splashed in his face and a noose around his neck. He still worried about that damn sandwich. Only exception is if it was a Spicy Italian. I’d picked that mofo up.
Plz don’t put Tupac in with this foolery.
So if no bones were broken, why drive to the hospital? He wasn’t beaten bad enough to lose the sandwich that had bleach on it since it was all over him. I cannot wit this dude. Yandy Smith was maced protesting and that sounded worse than this shh.
Yandy thought she was a super negro trying to rush the jail.
Yep. From station WSB-Tv in Atlanta:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsbtv.com/amp/news/local/ice-arrests-rapper-21-savage-says-hes-actually-from-uk/914024181
Sandra girl I appreciate the Jussie updates. It has only proven what we thought all along. The lack of bruised ribs was “It” for me.
I 2nd that
They sure show him on video wit that damn sandwich. And he claim he fought them back.
Have you seen the video of him jumping around doing strenuous dance moves during last night’s performance? Lol. That man’s ribs didn’t receive even a scratch, much less any kind of bruise or crack.
If you’re ever hiring, Id love to apply ?
Lately she seems to b. This is her way of finding something to do while hubby gone
Yandy is doing too much. Just cause her snitching man is locked up doesn’t mean we want to join the prison reform fight. I obey the law therefore, I’m sitting here in my warm house with all the utilities on enjoying movies and popcorn. Let the rapists, murderers, and thugs shiver a little. They’re tough guys. They’ll be all right.
Ninja, please…
Fought them back with a phone in one hand and a sandwich in the other.
Omg!!!! Lol so true tho. I was thinking there are real victims who are without heat in colder conditions. Thought it was just me.
Let this be the experience that sets them straight.
Oh lol!!!!! Forgot he fought with a phone AND sandwich!!! Smdh. He was Jussie Panther at 2am hunny.
He admitted at the concert that no ribs were broken or bruised. Using up that nice hospital’s ER bed.
Lol. Sandra Rose is this one of your peeps?
I salute you CTA workers. It is not easy getting out there.
Lawd. ?
If this damn queen don’t go sit his azz down somewhere. No witnesses. No real injuries. No pictures. No signs of bleach. A clothesline straight out of a package and an unharmed Subway sandwich. He fought back? What did he fight? The Artic air? I want to see the missing 60 seconds of footage where he tied the rope around his neck.This mofo is straight out cray cray!
You don’t get the comforts of home in prison.
This events from this week seem like to be a scene from movies. He been here since 12 years old so he should have worked on his citizenship instead of his hoodlum degree.
Instead of scared straight they will be frostbitten straight.
LOL!
Her and the rest of the clowns outside of that jail are a bunch of enablers. I would have stayed my behind at home. Yes their are innocent men jail. But experience is the greatest teacher.
Thank you. if you ever use transit anywhere, thank your drivers.
LOL
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Be blacker, be gayer and stay the phuc off of Tinder and those other gay hook-up sites. He went out to meet someone to get his ass whooped alright and ended up getting his ass whooped in an unexpected way. Nucca please.
Thank you https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/236ffd248f6d917306fb8afa3e1c0fbaafad1639eeb5cd577c3b63edf5867757.gif That sums it up completely
I don’t mean to be mean but what is his fan base? Look at his audience. That man…maybe woman in the plaid shirt?
????. I just can’t…so true
Wth would he compare himself to a legend such as Tupac ?
Bow Wow had more visible injuries than him.
He’s out of his mind.
Been saying since they were kid kids, this Smollett bunch were strange af. I’m honestly shocked this is their biggest thing to ever happen. Really shocked.
Messy azz queen, Pac took real bullets. Not slapped over the head by a Subway sandwich ?
I still don’t believe him. And to compare himself to Pac! I can’t even!
Now l believe he didnt have a footlong sammich l believe he had a footlong dildo. I order from subway all the time. If u get a sandwich with the works it is all soggy b4 u get home. He fought 2 attackers n it stayed intact. Jesse had a footlong dildo not a footlong sammich.
He went in the alley put a rope around his neck and went had his late night snack…this liar ?
Oh please. He wasn’t too pro black when he was engaged to Quincy’s racially ambiguous daughter. I’ve been side eyeing that nucca ever since I found out
And after a fierce assault and him fighting back like Tupac( rolls eyes)..after a couple of days you’re sour as heck! Of course he had to say his ribs weren’t broken …I’m done with him.This was reckless….smdh
The more I read about him the more he makes me sick. Sit down, stfu, & keep a low profile. Chicago’s handling him w/kid gloves b/c they’re getting TV show revenue. Don’t come to NY telling those lies, NYPD would be all over his sweet ass like white on rice. He would’ve been exposed. He fought back, whom was he fighting, himself or the rope, the bottle of bleach, the sandwich??? What?
That’s what I said! Their families are more outraged by them not having heat, than the heinous crimes they actually committed to be incarcerated in the first place. One woman crying & hollering & making a scene for the cameras (of course) has 2 sons locked up in Metropolitan Detention fed lock up. So sit your ass down! 2 sons locked up together, go some where & hide in shame b/c they clearly dropped the ball in that family.
Tupac was a thug who was dumb enough to fraternize with Suge Knight, there’s no reason for Jussie or you to idolize him.
Hypothermia straight.
She went looking for ‘ol Manatees. Bet the L&HHNY cameras were in tow. She has to secure her storyline for the coming season.
Sounds like the Taliban to me.
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Well, I hope that terrible scratch on his face heals quickly.
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I’m here for the comments after that unnecessary and dumb Tupac remark
Him and the bleach was swangin’ on each other…?. I’m here the Chicago and da streets is talkin’….
And it’s JAIL bït?hê?!!! Sat DOWN!
Bin Laden and ‘dem…
I’m soooo not a trump supporter, but agree with u on this Jussie mess. If he’s lying is credibility is SHOT and the dems filing up behind him will be hit with the shrapnel. I never would have run up behind this story…true or not.
WTf is up with black men comparing themselves to 2pac?
I would have faught them off and ran… that requires TWO mf hands (subway hits the ground). Bleach thrown on me, TWO mf hands to cover my face, eyes (again subway hits the ground). Juss….In my Keith Sweat voice “something, something, something, something JUSS ain’t right!
Pac was sweeter than jussie.. look at the highschool interviews.. black folks give it a pass tho.
He’s cocky as hell..
He’s overrated af too but people act like he’s the Messiah.
Happy Belated 69th Birthday to the inspiration of my life
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STFU!!!!!….Don’t you dare compare your lying azzzz to Tupac Amaru Shakur—->GTFOH!
You are nothing but a bottom who lied about some boy prostitute who beat your butt and then you took your hate for President Trump and his supporters to profit from it….I wish Chicago PD would make his lying butt pay them back for the lies he’s told.
They need to come to DC next.
“After landing in Los Angeles, he said he “immediately” went to his doctor who gave him the okay to perform.”
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So, his doctor said it was ok for him to perform with a half-inch scratch on his face? Whew!!! That’s good to know. I was really worried. ?
Quincy daughter has been the only one to claim they were engaged. Non of his homies or even his own mama confirmed this b.s Kindada made up.
NIGGAAA…
This made me laugh
Mercy!!
lmao! The gay Tupac? Get this n*gga the F*CK outta here ! Cancel the whole LGBT.
This idiot can’t be serious. The gay Tupac? REALLY?
All that “stand for love” that they’re now using is all b.s. It’s their way of making you accept their alternative lifestyle. Everything is love this love that. They’re going to usher in the antichrist through “love wins” mess they’re pushing on us.
This idiot can’t be serious. The gay Tupac? REALLY?
All that “stand for love” that they’re now using is all b.s. It’s their way of making you accept their alternative lifestyle. Everything is love this love that. They’re going to usher in the antichrist through “love wins” mess they’re pushing on us.
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Yes!!!
Right. The conditions in jail are supposed to make you not attempt crime wtf
Lmao it do ?
I dont idolize Tupac but I respect his wisdom as a gangsta a man…and a rapper…believe it or not he was special! Thats why they had to take him out…but they could never erase him!!
Lmao @ unharmed sub sammich ??
Wow, look at him! Beat up bad and bruised ribs—-my ass! He’s so fake
Either he got a hold to some bad dope or he’s just a nut.
If there was indisputable proof that he was attacked in the way he’s described it, I would have total and complete sympathy for him. I’d be in total support of him. But like so many others have said…this just seems soooo contrived. His injuries are very minimal compared to how he was allegedly beat up. Police can’t find evidence because there really is none. Waiting for the truth to come out…?
NO! HE! DID! NOT!! Pac’s ashes just whipped around in mid air somewhere! “Daddy Lee” can go suck a d, Empire can go suck a d, ANYBODY who believes these “chi chi” tales can go suck a d, and ANY/EVERYTHING associated w/ Jussie can go suck a big’ol d! I’m tight!! BOOOOOO Jussie BOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Lyin’azz!
EVER!
He added, “I’m the gay Tupac!”
——–umm…no your not. Jussie, I’m gonna need you to shut TF up and have several seats Miss…..you are starting to do waaayyyyy to much.
I can’t wait for the next distraction so this story can go away quietly… So glad my team won.?
WT entire F is he saying!!!
You’re nothing like Tupac!!
The gay Tupac? Man kill yo’ self!!
Will he share the process to be gayer .. I been up all night mixing pills n potions …
Right and with that lil laundry line rope he wore as a tie!
They pretended to enjoy his singing and clapped at his triumphant lie.
lol
RIGHT! I keep telling folks that Fàggôts are mentally ill. They don’t believe me.
True
That’s all it really was… Cause WHEN i saw WHITE MAINSTREAM media PICK THIS STORY up almost IMMEDIATELY, I said something is up with this. And this was b4 ppl started scratching their heads like WTF is really up with this SWIZZ CHEESE STORY?!!!
The Powers who Be, KNOW how to get the work talking and focused AWAY from their EFFERY . CRAZINESS> PATTERNS are OBVIOUS.
Yes, sometime you can see through these agendas. And then Jussie goes on to perform at his concert talking about ” love and tolerance, and being one in the same. I knew where he was going with that.
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or …..um no your Jamal Lyon the gay one lol
Who said all that happen???
I don’t understand the Tupac comment, either.
What a travesty. I hope he knows deep down he ain’t Tupac. Enjoy all the atttention dude.
Can I ever see a post about this guy without gay being spashed all over the place? He’s an actor and singer maybe even a song writer his sexually shouldnt be on the frontlines all the time.
Womp womp
you do know he can actually sing don’t you? he has a great singing voice
Oh Boy!!