Radio DJ, TV host, and former wrestler Peter Rosenberg recently criticized Andrew Schulz over his remarks about Kendrick Lamar. In a December 5 tweet captioned, “Ok final words on that clown talking about Dot,” the Ebro in the Morning co-host shared a video where he said:
“I don’t know Andrew Schulz, alright? I have never understood it, I don’t get it. Never understood how he got a voice on hip-hop. He is not a DJ, not an expert on the culture. Not anyone who’s ever put anyone on, played music, support artists.”
Rosenberg further said that Schulz didn’t understand or enjoy hip-hop but rather discussed it because it was “hot and trendy.”
“Deep down, it’s just a means to an end for you. I get that. But you went straight Bill O’Reilly? When a rap artist says something, you come at all rap? As if Kendrick Lamar is 2 Live Crew? The man’s been uplifting women his entire career. How’s that your reply?” Peter asked Andrew.
For the unversed, 2 Live Crew is a Miami-based hip-hop group that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Meanwhile, Bill O’Reilly is a veteran conservative political commentator known for his controversial remarks.
Further exploring Peter Rosenberg’s latest comments on Andrew Schulz and Kendrick Lamar
Peter Rosenberg ripped into Andrew Schulz for having his opinion on hip-hop culture in general and Kendrick Lamar. He said that Schulz “just sat next to” Charlamagne Tha God and suddenly got himself “a pass “to start talking about a music and culture he knows nothing about, doesn’t understand fundamentally.”
“Kendrick takes a shot at him on the album by pointing out that people shouldn’t let a white boy, a white comedian talk about black women. Whatever. His response is to s*xually assault Kendrick in a joke, in a weird joking way, okay, flat weird joke but I get it,” Rosenberg shared.
The 45-year-old former WWE champion explained that while he understood the “job” Andrew Schulz was trying to accomplish, his response to Kendrick Lamar by mocking, “Oh, since when’s hip-hop been so pro-women? Oh, hip-hop’s so pro-women,” wasn’t the way to go about it.
“Why are you talking about hip-hop? We are talking about Kendrick Lamar. What, Kendrick is the representative of all rap? Do you even like rap? Do you even like hip-hop? Like I know you don’t care about Black culture at all. Like you are one of those people who talked about the music because it’s hot and trendy. No way, you get it. You don’t love it,” the Hot 97 host added.
Notably, Peter Rosenberg is not the only industry insider who has called out Andrew Schulz for his response to K-Dot. TDE President and Kendrick’s former label boss Punch took to X and slammed the comedian for suggesting he could get away by s*xually assaulting Kendrick.
“Wait... wait... I know as a Black man… who’s involved in hip-hop music, that we are a bit slow and don’t really understand sarcasm and humor... But did my guy say he want to sleep with Dot?” Punch sarcastically asked.
Likewise, rapper Ice Cube’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr. also shared Schulz’s comments on the platform and put his caption, writing, “Weird a*s n**ga.” In a follow-up post, he shared how he was once a “fan” of the comedian but would now rethink after the recent tirade.
Understanding Andrew Schulz's feud with Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar released his sixth studio album, GNX, as a surprise on November 22. One of the singles, Wacced Out Murals, has the line:
“Don’t let no white comedian talk about no Black woman, that’s law.”
K-Dot may not have named anyone in particular. Still, many speculated it was an indirect shot at Andrew Schulz, who joked about the “Black girlfriend effect” earlier this year in his podcast, Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant with Akaash Singh.
The comedian appeared to have taken it personally and told DJ Akademiks, “Is this guy too woke to understand a joke?” Later, during the December 4 episode of his podcast, he further addressed the matter. He claimed rappers like Kendrick used comedians like him for “clout” and jokingly said, “Welcome,” asking, “How many views did I give him?”
Andrew Schulz also mocked K-Dot’s use of double-negative in the concerned lyric and joked about having s*xual relations with the rapper. He claimed that if they were ever in a jail cell together,
"I would make love to him and there's nothing he could do about it. Just Kendrick Lamar. I would make love to him and the only thing he could do is decide if it's consensual or not."
He also called the Pulitzer Prize winner a hypocrite. He said that rappers expect comedians to “sit back and reflect” about their jokes and dared to ask them to be “respectful to women” when they themselves didn’t follow their advice.
He even mocked with his own rap lyrics saying, “B*tches ain’t nothing but h*es and tricks I beat my b*tch with a stick,” referring to the rumor that Kendrick Lamar was involved in domestic abuse of his partner, Whitney Alford.