Jonah Hill recently clarified that he had no beef with Kanye West for the rapper’s past antisemitic comments and referenced his 2023 Instagram post about 21 Jump Street. For those uninformed, Kanye West’s verbal rampage against Jewish people began in 2022, after he posted that he was going to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” in an X post, known as Twitter at the time.
However, the rapper had a change of heart and posted that “watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street made [him] like Jewish people again” in an Instagram post in March 2023. 21 Jump Street is a 2012 film starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, who is Jewish.
On April 6, 2026, Jonah Hill appeared on Apple’s The Zane Lowe Show, where he addressed Kanye West’s 2023 post about him. Hill called the stunt a “bizarre public thing,” suggesting that West, professionally known as Ye, posted about him to “make up” for his past antisemitic comments. Hill also admitted that he had no beef with Ye, adding:
“He said something along the line of, ‘I don’t hate Jews anymore because I love Jonah Hill.’ I felt that he did this bizarre public thing to kind of make up, like, ‘It’s all good cause I love Jonah.’ [It] just sat with me in a way that it’s, like, all good. I love him still, and I hope whatever happens, he can heal or whatever, and everyone can heal from all that stuff. … I hope he can heal and make it right with the people he needs to make it right [with] in the Jewish community. Me and him got no beef.”
Jonah Hill said Kanye West was “probably the greatest artist ever to live”
Jonah Hill’s recent comments about Kanye West came after the actor included a gag about the rapper and his antisemitism in his upcoming Apple TV movie Outcome, which he directed, co-wrote, and co-produced. According to The Hollywood Reporter, one of the jokes in the movie included Hill’s character asking his assistant why the guy from the antisemitism community wasn’t there.
His assistant then replied, “We did the research and it turns out hating Jews doesn’t hurt your career, it helps it,” and the scene cuts to a picture of Kanye West. Hill explained the reasoning for adding the scene in the movie and suggested it was a callback to West’s 2023 post about 21 Jump Street.
Hill also clarified that he did not intend for the joke to come off as him taking shots at Kanye West, adding that he loved “the Kanye that I’ve met over the years” and believed he was “probably the greatest artist ever to live.”
“He’s a genius, and the stuff with the hate stuff sucks. What are you going to say? It sucks, no matter who you are, to hear that. Now, do I know what’s going on? No. Am I going to punch someone while they’re down? No, of course not,” Hill said.
He added:
“I just put that in there like, yo, you’re going to put the 21 Jump Street poster up there and say you don’t hate Jews anymore? That’s pretty wild. I’m gonna put a picture of you saying that hating Jews helps your career. Obviously, that’s a joke on my part. It doesn’t help your career, but it’s me just having fun. I’m a comedian.”
Jonah Hill also addressed the joke in an interview with SiriusXM on April 6, pointing out that the gag was meant to shed light on how “culture’s f**king weird and it always has been and it always will be,” and how “one of the funny things about it is like you can go on a Jew-hating tour and then sell out [SoFi Stadium].”
In January 2026, Kanye West apologized for his antisemitic behavior in a Wall Street Journal ad and suggested his actions were due to his bipolar disorder. The rapper’s antisemitism increased since 2022 and reached a peak in 2025, which saw him selling T-shirts with the Swastika symbol on his website.
Kanye West has since released an album titled Bully on March 28, and performed two sold-out shows at So-Fi Stadium in Los Angeles on April 1 and April 3. He is also scheduled to headline all three days of the Wireless Festival in London this July amid growing backlash.
Edited by Juhi Marzia
