For years the station that claims they are "Where Hip Hop and R&B lives" has been unbalanced in their musical taste, constantly playing rap records catered to the partying, drug dealing, shoot em up stereotypical culture of rap, and Hip Hop pioneers Chuck D and KRS1 are fed up. Read and listen to what they had to say about this growing subject that is finally being heard by more than a few. As always big shout out to Manny Faces of BirthplaceMag who has spoken about this a long time ago. It's about time yall open up your ears and listen.
KRSONE:
“When Funkmaster Flex stopped playing my music for no reason,” KRS-One said. “And when Angie Martinez forgot her roots. And I don’t know if y’all know this woman, but her name is Tracy Cloherty. Well, she banned me from the station. And Lisa Evers, Street Soldiers, hung up on me live on air. Because I said they said—This is when Foxy Brown and Lil Kim had their little shootout in front of Hot 97 and they had us on the air. And I said ‘Y’all the ones that promoted that shit.’ All day long ‘Gun, gun, gun.’ All day long ‘Murder, murder, murder’…There’s something called a balance. In the morning when our kids are going to school that’s not the time to play ‘killing, shooting, nigga, bitch, and fuck.’ When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free. But the cost of freedom is that you’re not gonna be in the mainstream. You’re not gonna be on the cover of every magazine…Years ago they told us ‘Make sure you get a college degree in case your rap career don’t work out. You got something to fall back on.’ Today, ‘Make sure you can rap in case your degree don’t work out’. It’s been 25, 30 years and Rap is no longer a pastime, this is a worldwide profession.” During an interview with whomag.net last September KRS1 said. "If the radio ever played my music, I would sue them, and they know it, which is why they don’t play my music. If you play KRS, I’ll sue you. Straight up. I don’t even want my music on mainstream radio. They don’t deserve it. They destroy careers." - Source, hiphopdx.com
Watch the video of KRS ONE's message
The look on my face after I heard what a sloppy fiasco in NYC has made of HipHop.
CHUCKD:
"My goal by year's end is to change the face and sound of urban radio, I've been in this shit 30 years too long to just sit and let it be. I'm not going to be the grim reaper. I don't want to be the grim reaper. But people have to stand up and we need some change, and it's time.” ChuckD speaks on SummerJam and the constant use of the N word: "If there was a festival and it was filled with anti-Semitic slurs or racial slurs at anyone but Black people, what do you think would happen? Why does there have to be such a double standard? It's just a sloppy presentation of the art form, the worst presentation known to man," D explained. "It's negligent. There needs to be a greater representation of the culture and the community on that radio station. - Source, hiphopdx.com