Ten months ago, Hot 97 pulled the plug on Ebro in the Morning, ending a 13-year run that helped define New York hip-hop radio. This week, Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, and Peter Rosenberg released episode 199 of their own show — same trio, same morning energy, no station. If you were wondering where they landed, the answer is: on their feet, and on their own terms.
The end came fast. On December 12, 2025, the show aired its final broadcast on WQHT, closing a run that started in 2012. Funkmaster Flex slid into the morning slot. Drake — a frequent target of the show’s criticism over the years — reacted to the news with a hatchet emoji, and the hosts fired right back on social media. Ebro has said he believes his outspoken progressive politics, and station ownership’s casino-license business, made him a problem they wanted out of the way. The station itself has never given a reason.
The trio didn’t take a break. The following Monday, they were back — as an independent show. Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg launched on YouTube and the podcast platforms that same week, “back like they never left,” and they have kept a weekday schedule ever since: live at 8 AM, the same hour New York used to wake up to them on the radio.
Ten months in, the run speaks for itself: 199 numbered episodes and counting. Just in the last two weeks, Mahershala Ali sat with them (October 7), Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed joined the show (October 8), WWE superstar Royce Keys headlined episode 199 (October 14), and Angela Rye guested on their ELR News spinoff (October 13). Extended versions of the show live on Patreon, and the daily clips keep the trio in the middle of every conversation hip-hop is having.
Each host kept their other lanes moving, too. Ebro still does his Apple Music work alongside the show. Rosenberg still splits time between ESPN New York and his WWE duties. And Laura Stylez anchors “The Rundown” on the daily show and co-hosts ELR News, the team’s news-focused spinoff.
Back in December, Rosenberg wrote that the three of them were “about to be much bigger now that we won’t be held back by a company that is and has been completely lost.” Ten months and 199 episodes later, that doesn’t read like bitterness — it reads like a business plan. Ebro, Laura & Rosenberg airs weekdays at 8 AM on YouTube and everywhere podcasts stream.
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