Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner has lost his spot on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation’s board after he suggested in an interview that Black and female artists are not as musically “articulate.”

“Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame said in a one-sentence statement on Saturday, one day after the publication of the interview.

Wenner, 77, did not immediately reply to a request for comment. He splits his time between New York City and Ketchum, Idaho.

In a New York Times interview published Friday, Wenner said he had not included any women in his upcoming book featuring interviews with legendary rock figures because “none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”

Defending the absence of Black artists in the book, called “The Masters,” Wenner told the Times, “I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word.”

“Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield?” he told the newspaper. “I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”

Wenner, who founded Rolling Stone magazine in 1967, left the magazine in 2019. He also helped found periodicals including US Weekly, Family Life and Men’s Journal.

“The Masters” is due to arrive at bookstores on Sept. 26. The 368-page book’s cover highlights seven popular male musicians: Bono, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Townshend.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has long been criticized for its male-dominated ranks.

In the interview, Wenner acknowledged he was courting criticism by focusing only on white men in his book.

“You know, just for public relations’ sake, maybe I should have gone and found one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard,” Wenner told The Times.

At one point, Wenner was the chair of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation’s board.