that Spike didn’t approve of his interracial marriage. Spike eventually released the film Jungle Fever and his Pops told Jet Magazine that he felt that Spike was “directly talking about me and my wife in a negative way.” Obviously Bill didn’t appreciate that and even Bill’s wife chimed in and said “I’ve never been a Spike Lee fan.” But of course Spike Lee was like ‘Who cares?’

In 1992 is when things got really bad. Bill was mad because he said he asked Spike for some money to help him with a few bills for his NY brownstone apartment he’d been living in since 1969 and Spike told him ‘no.’ Bill claimed that Spike’s “attitude was very insulting” and after that they didn’t talk for over 2 years.

That ’92 feud happened soon after Bill Lee, a former drug abuser, was arrested for possessing heroin and although he said at that time that he was glad that he was arrested because that saved him, sources say that Spike was very disappointed in him.

Throughout these moments of tension, Spike and Bill were able to