Kanye West has taken out a full-page advert to apologise for his past antisemitic remarks.<\/p>\n
The rapper issued the lengthy apology to both Jewish and Black communities following a series of antisemitic and racist outbursts over the years.<\/p>\n
Published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, the apology saw Kanye attribute some of his past behaviour to a car accident 25 years ago that he claimed damaged his frontal lobe.<\/p>\n
“Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain,” he wrote. “At the time, the focus was on the visible damage – the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed.”<\/p>\n
Kanye went on to claim that he “lost touch with reality” after his 2016 bipolar disorder diagnosis and kept trying to “ignore the problem”.<\/p>\n
“I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst,” he penned. “You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to have someone who was, at times, unrecognisable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self.”<\/p>\n
He continued, “In that fractured state, I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold T-shirts bearing it.”<\/p>\n
The 48-year-old explained that his mental health disorder led to “poor judgment and reckless behaviour that oftentimes feels like an out-of-body experience”.<\/p>\n
“I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change,” he wrote. “It does not excuse what I did though. I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people.”<\/p>\n
The Stronger hitmaker also apologised to the Black community for letting them down when they got him through “all of the highs and lows and the darkest of times”.<\/p>\n
Kanye has sparked controversy with his antisemitic comments on and off since 2022. The scandal reached a fever pitch last year when he started selling T-shirts bearing the swastika.<\/p>\n
The musician, also known as Ye, is gearing up to release his next album, Belly, on Friday.<\/p>\n
– Cover Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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