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How Men Think

“I am Not a Nazi or an Antisemite. I Love Jewish People.” Kanye West Takes Out Full Page Ad To Apologize.

How Men Think

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Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is apologizing “To Those I’ve Hurt," specifically Jewish people, the Black community, and to the people he loves most for his behavior over the past 20 plus years. Ye says he’s not asking for sympathy, or a free pass, instead he says he wants to earn our forgiveness and blames his erratic and at times offensive behavior on a previously undiagnosed frontal lobe injury from a car accident in 2002. The timing of the apology has come into question however, with Ye set to release his 12th studio album at the end of this week on Friday, January 30th.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.1

Hey there, folks.

0:07.2

It is Monday, January 26th.

0:10.0

And Yay, the artist formerly known as Kanye West has taken out a full-page Maya Kopa,

0:18.0

pleading with the public to forgive him for all of those controversies, all of

0:24.7

those hurtful and hateful words over the past several years, and also pointing directly to a medical

0:32.1

issue that caused him to behave that way. Welcome everybody to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs,

0:40.5

this is going to be a difficult one for people to deal with because I take it very sincerely,

0:48.2

is how it came off, but it's a lot to overcome a lot of what he said.

0:53.8

Yes, it seems very sincere and heartfelt.

0:58.4

He's got a couple of issues.

0:59.8

It's hard to undo hurtful things you've said that you've put in print, but also the

1:05.3

timing.

1:05.8

He has a problem with the timing of this apology, this full-page ad that he took out.

1:10.6

Well, we're going to get into that. And again, it came out today, Wall Street Journal, a full-page ad that's out. And what we're going to do here, folks, is we're going to go through it. Line by line. It is long. It'll take a second to read it to you, but we are. We're just going to take it line by line here. And then we'll do a little more, I guess, breaking down at the end of it.

1:29.2

But a lot of folks will remember, I guess it's been a decade plus. It seems like, Robs, he has

1:33.3

been a social pariah. And not just a matter of like some erratic behavior. We're used to

1:38.6

maybe a celebrity getting a DUI or getting arrested here or there. No, he has said,

1:43.2

as a reminder here,

1:44.2

some pretty horrific things in support of Hitler, selling stuff online with swastikas on it.

1:50.9

We're talking about some pretty horrific stuff. He has a song that's literally called,

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