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Today, Explained

Kanye's comeback

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The rapper, who sold swastika T-shirts and released a song called "Heil Hitler," says he's sorry. Ye or nay? This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Dustin DeSoto, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. UK newspaper front pages and articles about Kanye West after he was blocked by the government from entering the UK. Photo by Mark Case/Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coachella Weekend is around the corner in Indio, California, but I want to talk to you about

0:06.0

wireless in the UK. It's another three-day music festival, but lately they've been doing

0:11.3

the same headliner on each of the three nights. Last year it was Drake on night one,

0:17.2

Drake on night two, and Drake on night three. Embarrassing.

0:21.7

This year, Wireless decided to take the same approach, but instead of Drake headlining all three

0:26.5

nights, they booked the most controversial musician on the planet, a guy who used to go

0:31.7

by the name of Kanye West.

0:33.7

And everyone got mad.

0:36.1

From sponsors like Pepsi and PayPal to eventually the UK's own Prime Minister Kier Starmor.

0:42.4

On Tuesday, Ye was banned from entering the UK and Wireless had to pull the plug on the entire festival.

0:49.1

But the rapper has recently come out and apologized for all the terrible things he's said and done.

0:55.5

So, yay or nay on Today, Explained?

1:00.7

And I heard him say, nothing except for promise tomorrow today.

1:04.8

Explained.

1:05.5

Yay, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has for a very long time believed he's God's gift to earth,

1:11.6

and that might even be an understatement.

1:13.4

I am a god, so hurry up with my damn massage in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn

1:20.7

croissant.

1:21.2

Either found him insufferable or felt like you could excuse his outsized personality because

1:25.9

his music made you feel like you could fly.

1:28.3

But then, Yee spent years doing everything in his power to alienate his audience.

1:33.3

We asked Chris Murphy from Vanity Fair to come help us understand that era

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