N.O.R.E. ran up on Sober Facts. Now the food critic says he'll apologize

N.O.R.E. pulled up on New York food reviewer Sober Facts (Jason Rodriguez) while he was filming a review outside Casa Adela on the Lower East Side on Halloween, telling him to stop using the N-word.

N.O.R.E. pulled up on New York food reviewer Sober Facts (Jason Rodriguez) while he was filming a review outside Casa Adela on the Lower East Side on Halloween, telling him to stop using the N-word. On the video, the Drink Champs host says he 'could have did you filthy' but keeps it verbal, and asks where the people backing Sober Facts online were. The two had gone back and forth online for months after Sober Facts posted a video defending his use of the word and criticized the drinking and smoking on N.O.R.E.'s show. Sober Facts first fired back, saying N.O.R.E. arrived with six or seven people and that 'nobody in New York City is gonna stop saying it.' That video is no longer on his Instagram. In a follow-up he said he wanted to 'end this' and doesn't 'even wanna use the word anymore.' On Wednesday he told Complex's Izzy Izzo he was shocked, not scared, that he respected N.O.R.E.'s request to turn the camera off, and that he will apologize. The run-in also took over Wednesday's Joe Budden Podcast, where Marc Lamont Hill sympathized with Sober Facts and the rest of the panel said online talk invites real-world consequences.