Following the release his long-awaited debut album A Written Testimony,  found himself ruffling feathers for a variety different reasons. While was displeased in a perceived lack effort from the acclaimed lyricist, Hot 97 host Peter Rosenberg wasn’t entirely thrilled about some Jay’s bars on “Ghost Of Soulja Slim,” which he felt were antisemitic in nature. 

A few days ago, Rosenberg hit Twitter to voice his concerns with Electronica’s “Synagogue Of Satan” line, admitting that he felt fended as a Jewish hip-hop head. Electronica, going so far as to invite him to stage a public discourse about the topic. And while that particular tete-a-tete has yet to manifest, Rosenberg did make time to address the tense Twitter exchange during Ebro In The Morning. 

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Explaining that he felt compelled to speak up in the face an increasingly vocal anti-Jewish sentiment, Rosenberg reveals that many Jewish fans had reached out about the lyric. Following the exchange, however, he felt that few were willing to stand in his corner; instead he found himself accused “selective outrage.” Ebro interjects with his take on “the Synagogue Satan,” explaining that the term derives from those “faking” Jewishness and using it for nefarious means. Rosenberg claps back, stating that “to act like that is a significant portion Jews is crazy.”

Circling back to the lyrics, Rosenberg doubles down that they were “dangerous, especially in today’s climate.” He also implores anyone attempting to gatekeep his feelings to fall back. “Please don’t tell me as a Jew whose mother was born in a displaced person’s camp after the holocaust, don’t tell me what I should be fended about,” he says. “This isn’t about my place in hip-hop…If Jay wants to speak about it, he said you want to have a forum? We have a forum every day, my G. Anytime. I’m not saying I hate the guy and we can’t have a conversation, course we can. But I have the right to express that those words are hurtful.”