Ye’s WSJ Apology Sparks Skepticism Ahead of ‘Bully’ (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Are we getting the old Kanye back? The artist formerly known as Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to offer up an apology. Now what is he apologizing for? Anti-Semitic comments that he's made in the past. According to Ye, he was in a car accident 25 years ago, which left him with an undiagnosed brain injury. Now he says that that brain injury was not diagnosed until 2023, and that things have been complicated by his mental health and also mental illness. According to him, he's now embracing his bipolar disorder yet again. And I say yet again because Ye's come back before to say actually he's not bipolar, but that he has autism. But now he says that that autism diagnosis came from doctors, and it's actually not the case. Now it feels like we've been here before with Ye apologizing. We have, multiple times. In the past, he's apologized for anti-Semitic things that he's said, only to come back and double down. So people are wondering if he really means this apology, that he's offering to the Jewish community as well as the Black community, which he says has long supported him, or if all this is happening because he has a new project coming out. A new album titled Bully is set to drop soon.