Podcast host Joe Rogan has been at the center of ongoing controversy. The host of The Joe Rogan Experience is being widely criticized for his use of the N-word and other racial slurs, and Rap-A-Lot Records founder J. Prince shared his thoughts on Rogan via Instagram.

“Joe Rogan is not a racist,” J. Prince wrote in a post. “I know this brother. It takes a sincere individual to admit when they are wrong and have fucked up about a situation. As you can hear he’s done that and I forgive him because I never want to become one of those people that are filled with un-forgiveness and hate, that we complain about all the time.”

Rogan's views on vaccination have drawn criticism and calls for a boycott of Spotify for providing Rogan a platform. Classic rock icons Neil Young and Joni Mitchell made headlines by removing their music from the popular streaming platform; doing so in protest of Rogan's commentary. This past weekend, Rogan issued an apology via his own Instagram.

“There’s a video that’s out that’s a compilation of me saying the N-word,” Rogan said. “It’s a video that’s made of clips taken out of context of me of 12 years of conversations on my podcast, and it’s all smushed together. And it looks fucking horrible, even to me.”

“I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, nevermind publicly on a podcast, and I agree with that now. I haven’t said it in years. Instead of saying ‘the N-word,’ I would just say the word. I thought as long as it was in context, people would understand what I was doing.”

For his part, J. Prince acknowledged that non-Black people should be mindful to not use the N-word in any context.

“Let this be an example to others of the sensitivity of the word ‘n***a’ being said by anybody other than a n****a lol,” J. Prince wrote.