Dave Chappelle celebrated at a VIP afterparty following a violent assault on him on the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night time, Web page Six has solely discovered.
Spies inform us that Chappelle was seen having “a good time” on the bash on the Pendry West Hollywood resort, the place rappers Black Star and Busta Rhymes carried out.
“Black Star had the gang on their toes as they carried out about half a dozen of the tracks from their new album, ‘No Worry of Time,’” says a spy.
Earlier on the Hollywood Bowl, company included new Twitter boss Elon Musk, Chris Rock, Diddy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jamie Foxx, Marlon Wayans and Ja Rule, amongst others.
On the starry afterparty, Black Star obtained to carry out the set of tunes that had been reduce quick on the live performance venue after the assault.
Chappelle had launched the rap duo by telling the gang they have been about to witness “hip-hop historical past.”
However the shock look by Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (previously often called Mos Def) was reduce quick after the onstage assault. Black Star wound up taking part in solely two songs earlier than the Hollywood Bowl’s strict native cutoff time for noise, we hear.
Black Star simply put out their first album in practically 24 years this month solely via Luminary, which additionally hosts their podcast with Chappelle, “The Midnight Miracle.”
Chappelle’s rep told The Hollywood Reporter the day after the assault that the humorist, 48, “refuses to permit final night time’s incident to overshadow the magic of this historic second.” And it appears he didn’t let it cease his afterparty both.
The Pendry in LA is named a celeb hotspot the place Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez went on a PDA-packed dinner date final June as their relationship heated up. Kanye West and Julia Fox, in the meantime, hung out on the Pendry’s NYC location throughout their transient fling earlier this 12 months.
Chappelle’s Hollywood Bowl present was a part of the Netflix Is a Joke comedy fest. On Tuesday night time, an viewers member — later recognized as 23-year-old Isaiah Lee — rushed Chapelle on stage throughout his set and attacked him.
The LAPD confirmed to Web page Six that the suspect was booked and charged with felony assault with a lethal weapon, and a police spokesperson mentioned Lee was carrying a reproduction of a handgun that had a knife inside it.
Rock, 57, helped calm the gang after the incident by making gentle of the scary state of affairs, joking, “Was that Will Smith?” — in reference to the “Males in Black” star slapping him on the Oscars in March.
