On the latest episode of the Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show, Peter Rosenberg suggested that he’s not fully buying the artist formerly known as Kanye West’s lengthy apology to the Jewish and Black communities.
“I’m going to totally take a dump on this, because you guys know I don’t want to hate Kanye,” said Rosenberg around the 27-minute portion of the episode, seen above. “I hope that this is the beginning of something meaningful. I respect the apology to the Black community, why did the Jews just get an, ‘I love Jewish people’? Why no apology?” Ebro said that Ye already apologized before, and Rosenberg added, “Not in this letter.”
“This seemed like the official statement, so, I would have also said, ‘I am deeply sorry to the Jewish community, who I clearly hurt, my fans and all the people who love me,’” he continued. “I’m just saying, it still feels incomplete. … I’m just also very weary.” Rosenberg said that he finds it to be “cringe” when someone says they love a certain minority, putting on a Donald Trump impression to say, “I love Black people.”
“No you don’t,” said Rosenberg, who is Jewish. “No, I don’t. I’m glad you do. I don’t love all Jews, I don’t love all Black people. I don’t love all anything. … I’m not going to nitpick—I’m nitpicking.” Ebro pointed out that the letter begins with Ye stating that he wasn’t diagnosed with frontal lobe injuries following his 2002 near-fatal car crash, but he was later on. “Black people have a long history of being abused, misdiagnosed, and just harmed by the medical space,” Ebro added. “So a lot of this letter is about that.”
“I believe in forgiveness,” said Rosenberg. “If this is real and he continues on this path and he really is a good person. For the rest of his life he’s like, ‘Man, I was in a bad way… I do things different now.’ I will 100 percent forgive. It’s a wait and see, but I am open to it. I would love that. That would be better for all of us, who love his music, to not have to cringe when we hear his music and go, ‘Oh no, Ye’s back.’ … Sorry doesn’t fix the lamp, you know what I mean? The lamp is broken. He helped contribute. We are now living, no matter how much I disagree with and dislike the ADL—the stats on real anti-semitism, not made-up fake criticism of Israel that they’re calling anti-semitism—the cases of real anti-semitism are at an all-time high. … Kanye turned the temperature up.”
Laura Stylez said that she’s also skeptical because Ye is gearing up to release a new album, Bully, but Ebro highlighted that Ye made it clear in the letter that he’s still a work in progress.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Ye insisted that his apology letter isn’t a PR move.
“It’s my understanding that I was in the top 10 most listened-to artists overall in the US on Spotify in 2025, and last week and most days as well,” Ye said. “My upcoming album, Bully, is currently one of the most anticipated pre-saves of any album on Spotify too. My 2007 album, Graduation, was also the most listened-to and streamed hip-hop album of 2025. This, for me, as evidenced by the letter, isn’t about reviving my commerciality.”