Ye, the provocative rapper formerly known as Kanye West, explains himself once again— this time in a full-page ad in Monday’s issue of the Wall Street Journal.
The Grammy-winning musician penned a lengthy apology in the advertisement, voicing regrets for his social media attacks on Jewish people and his public embracing of Nazism in recent years. He began his letter detailing injuries from a 2002 car accident,including a frontal-lobe injury he says led too his bipolar type-1 diagnosis. ye wrote that, in the throes of the disorder, “I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika.”
he said: “I lost touch wiht reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret.”
The “Power” and “I Love Kanye” musician, 48, has long had a history of stirring controversy, but notably began facing waves of scrutiny for embracing white supremacy, fawning over Adolf Hitler and threatening violence to jewish people on social media in late 2022. though his professional life seemed to take blows, West continued embracing Nazi symbolism in the following years, in 2025 selling a shirt featuring a swastika.
