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Kanye West’s recent apology for antisemitic comments he made in the past didn’t convince Peter Rosenberg, who blasted it as “inauthentic”.
Radio and television personality Peter Rosenberg is not a fan of the recent apology to the Jewish community that Kanye West publicly made last Tuesday (December 26) on his Instagram account. The apology, written in Hebrew, took the public by surprise but Rosenberg expressed his doubts. “I thought, I wonder what the sample is that Kanye needs to try to clear before Friday,” he said while appearing on TMZ Live.
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“We all know Kanye notoriously is late with handling album stuff and I just wonder whether there was something getting held up and someone said ‘Hey, this sample does not get cleared if he does not issue an apology,’”, the HOT 97 fixture continued, referencing the issue the rapper ran into on the Vultures track with Ty Dolla $ign. When asked by Harvey Levin if he thought West was sincere, Rosenberg replied, “No part of me believes his apology.”
Rosenberg added, “I totally agree, by the way, that the Hebrew part was so either, like, intentionally or unintentionally offensive as if like American Jews can just read Hebrew without vowels. Like, bro, it’s just another offensive thing here. One thing we know about Kanye, he’s many things. Inauthentic is not one of them and that comment was so inauthentic that it lets you know it couldn’t actually be from him.”
The YES commentator would conclude: “This whole Hitler fascination, this is now a years-long thing. We’re talking about multiple years now. Honestly, the sad thing is, I don’t think there’s an apology out there that could make people feel better and forget about this.”
West’s statement comes after months of his making antisemitic comments, beginning in October 2022 on X, formerly Twitter. In the time since that initial statement, his business partnerships with The Gap, Adidas, and Balenciaga were severed. The “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” artist would also make an appearance on right-wing media figure Alex Jones’ InfoWars podcast and infamously claim that he “saw good things about [Adolf] Hitler.”
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RZA revealed the real story of how Method Man got his name in a recent interview, stunning fans tuning in as well as the hosts of the show.
The RZA was a guest on the EBROINTHEAM show on HOT97, co-hosted by Ebro and Peter Rosenberg last Thursday (November 9), and Rosenberg played a snippet from the hit “Method Man” off of the Wu-Tang Clan’s debut album, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). It prompted him to ask, “Why did Method Man get his own song on the album? And again, did you have a hunch that this one would go off?” The RZA replied, “Method Man was Shakwon until he made that song — Shakwon the Panty Raider. Then, after he made that song, everybody in the hood called him Method Man.”
Rosenberg and co-host Laura Stylez were both surprised. Ebro then asked, “So Method Man was just the chorus, it wasn’t his name or the concept?” “It was the concept because meth is weed. He’s the king of smoking weed. So he’s the method man. A year later, he’s Method Man,” RZA responded. When asked if the streets were the major weight behind the decision, he said it was the Clan’s decision ultimately. “It was a conscious decision by us as a crew, but the streets did push it.”
The revelation caused a shockwave among the hosts. “That makes so much sense! Now that I think about it,” Rosenberg said before continuing: “See, RZA, this is something that to you is so built-in that it’s a nothing burger, whereas to us, it makes so much sense! It was always a little weird that there’s one song on the album named after a member. We thought it was named after the member, but that’s not what it was; it was the name of a song that then became the name of a member!”
Method Man himself talked about the name change in his appearance on the Drink Champs podcast hosted by N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN, specifically citing legendary funk artist Bootsy Collins along with John Legend, Masta Ace, and Hall & Oates as inspirations for the song.
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Notable Hip-Hop junkie, Hot 97 radio personality Peter Rosenberg and famed photographer Natalie Amrossi officially tied the knot over the weekend.
Spotted on Page Six, we officially meet The Rosenbergs at their star-studded wedding extravaganza that featured plenty of notable guests from professional wrestlers, radio personalities, Hip-Hop stars, friends, family, and more.
Per Page Six:
“Ebro in the Morning” co-host and WWE correspondent Rosenberg and Amrossi celebrated with guests including Amber Rose, wrestling stars Booker T, Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman and Montel Vontavious Porter, and broadcasters Kayla Braxton, Kevin Patrick, Michael Kay and Sam Roberts, among others.
Following a beautiful wedding ceremony, The Rosenbergs and their 250 guests danced the night away until 1:30 am at Tribeca Rooftop +360. At the same time, Pusha T’s latest nemesis, Jim Jones, performed his timeless hit, “We Fly High.” Rosenberg’s Hot 97 colleague, Funk Flex, handled DJaying duties during the reception.
How The Couple Met
According to Page Six, the couple met during the pandemic, and their first date was over FaceTime. Rosenberg, 43, made his chops as the longtime Ebro in The Morning radio show co-host along with Ebro Darden and Laura Stylez and his Juan Epstein podcast with former Hot 97 personality and DJ Cipha Sounds. He is also a co-host on The Michael Kay Show on ESPN Radio and a WWE correspondent.
Rosenberg’s new wife is a fantastic photographer who took her passion for aerial photography took off on Instagram, quitting her job in finance.
According to the New York Post, Amrossi “makes six figures a year shooting for clients like Nike, Barcardi, and Cannon.”
This is Rosenberg’s second marriage. He was previously married to sports commentator Alexa Datt until they split in 2008.
Congrats to The Rosenbergs.
You can see more photos from the ceremony in the gallery below.
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1. Amber Rose was in the building looking for a new husband
2. Well damn
3. Name this trio
4. Not the Stone Cold entrance music, lol. Nice touch.
6. Smoke DZA was in the building.
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