For those who haven't heard about this incident,
check this out.
Right now, Drudge has a
Yahoo article linked on his website. I've emailed him and some others about the clip to get the word out, but so far I've only received a few requests to hear it.
But the song in and of itself is still getting a lot of press. Over the past day or so,
Reuters,
Billboard,
NewsDay, and others have reported on the story, but I doubt they heard the conversation before it.
According to Reuters, this isn't the first time Hot 97 has gotten in hot water over stunts they've pulled on their station:
The incident is not the first time HOT 97 has been accused of racism and poor taste. The station made headlines when deejay Star, now at another radio station, called Jennifer Lopez a "rice-and-bean eater" and satirized the plane crash that killed R&B singer Aaliyah in 2001.
I remember the Aaliyah incident, because Star had problems with Jay-Z after that and Jay-Z made a quasi-threat towards Star on the tribute remix to Aaliyah's "I miss you".
I've listened to New York urban radio before, and this doesn't surprise me. The radio personalities in that city are very controversial and take their street cred very seriously, and it's amazing that none of them have ended up dead, or at least from what I know.
It's time to put these guys in their place, and get them off the air.