Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...Kanye West (Ye), 2018Earlier this week, Ye, formerly Kanye West, issued an apology as a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, and then discussed it in an exclusive email interview with Vanity Fair. Ye was apologizing for a series of anti-Black, antisemitic, and extremist actions that he says occurred during a four-month manic episode in early 2025. Those actions included selling swastika T-shirts, releasing a song titled “Heil Hitler,” and making alarming statements about “dominion” over his wife, Bianca Censori. They came after years of egregious statements, including pro-Nazi, antisemitic rhetoric, and an assertion that centuries of enslavement were “a choice” for African Americans. Many remain skeptical of the apology, though, recalling Ye’s December 2023 redress ahead of his Vultures 1 album release.