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The axe emoji heard 'round the world.
Ebro Darden and Peter Rosenberg walk the blue carpet at JAY-Z's Iconic The 40/40 Club in partnership with Fanatics Sportsbook at the center of Fanatics Fest NYC at Jacob Javits Center on August 17, 2024 in New York City. Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images
Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning came to a close on Friday (Dec. 12), and Drake issued a single emoji response to the morning show’s cancellation.
Drizzy hopped into an Instagram comment section with an axe emoji under a post featuring Ebro explaining why his morning show was taken off the air.
Cohost Peter Rosenberg, who was let go by Hot 97 after 19 years, didn’t appreciate what he thought was Drake celebrating his “demise,” and Rosenberg fired back at the 6 God on X over the weekend.
“It’s behavior like this that has made it impossible for people to defend the wack sh*t that he does,” he wrote Sunday (Dec. 14). “But happy Hanukkah my one time pal .. I truly wish you well even if you’re celebrating what you believe is our demise (spoiler alert — we’re about to be much bigger now that we won’t be held back by a company that is and has been completely lost ever since they bought the station!)”
Rosenberg and Drake’s relationship has soured in recent years. The former Hot 97 radio host continued to go after Drake’s fan base on X, claiming that it’s now made up of “virgins” and “Twitch commenters.”
“I used to think of Drake fans as attractive women who liked to party,” he continued about the OVO faithful. “Now it’s like weird twitch commenters who are absolutely virgins.”
Ebro also reacted to Drizzy’s reply by hopping on X to allege that “Drake is ‘right wing’ and so is [Akademiks].” The Canadian rapper has never spoken publicly about his political party alignment.
Ebro also posted a video theorizing the reasons behind his show’s cancellation, which he chalked up to partly being due to his “progressive” and “anti-Netanyahu” views.
“You look around at all the major media outlets … They all gotta fold up because they’re all trying to renew their deals and their licenses,” he claimed. “They need my s–t talking, anti-Netanyahu, anti-government, progressive s–t out of the way, bro. They need me out of the way.”
Cohosted by Ebro, Rosenberg and Laura Stylez, Ebro in the Morning launched in 2012 and had been on the Hot 97 airwaves for weekday mornings for well over a decade, before finishing on Friday.
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