Hot 97’s Funk Flex is taking his beef with Cardi B to another level by claiming the platinum rapper paid for radio spins.
On Wednesday (August 15), the record-breaking rap star hopped on Instagram Live to address rumors she paid people to show her music love. The new mom explained her frustration with the rumors and how her career actually didn’t take off overnight.
In response to her video, Funk Flex responded to @leveluphiphop_’s repost of Cardi’s video, stating that she, in fact, did try to pay for radio spins.
“I think Cardi is a great entertainer and has great songs!” he wrote. “I gave my opinion when she said she was “King of NY” and when I found out she didn’t write her own songs! I met Cardi and her management and I respected his and Cardi’s hustle!
“BUT LETS BE CLEAR.. CARDI’S TEAM AND MANY OTHER ARTIST (in the beginning of career) PAY DJS TO PLAY RECORDS AND SAY THAT “THEY ARE HOT” (Since I never took a penny from a rapper I’m not scared to speak on it) I have emails I’ve gotten from labels over the years with names and figures!”
Take a look at the Instagram response below.
Cardi has yet to respond to Flex’s allegation.
Okay. She pays for spins (investing in herself) and he dickrides for free. Nothing to see here.
Exactly. Flex has been irrelevant for years. All he does is hate.
I mean I don’t like Cardi music at all, but flex is one of hip hops biggest idiots. I don’t care if she is or isn’t. All labels pay to get spins tell dude to stop fronting if labels didn’t pay the playing field would be more balanced, you wouldn’t hear drake on 3-4x in one hour. If I had the budget and I was a new artist or managing one I would pay to get spins too, it can pay off in a major way. Why do people acting like their exposing something when it’s merely common sense that everybody knows this. I find it funny that he is expressing this on same week that Nicki album drop and he and her just became cool again. Hmmm
Me Flex me drop bomb. Me want smoke. Me stupid
So she or her team pays like 250k-300k to get major spins and now and last two years she prob has generated millions for herself this is bad how??? Good move for her, I would have done it if I was able.
A – flex is known for taking pay to drop his “bombs” (God, he’s old) on people’s tracks
B – tons on labels pay for spins so calling out a specific rapper is petty and personal
C – Minaj sat on his face for 30 sec in that interview and now he’s goin at Cardi….so lame
His status in the game was in question back in the day when he was relevant, there’s no question now with his antics since he fell off a decade ago
Flex last official album was in 1999 (Prince) will the new era get a Funk Flex album ?
Ya’ll wouldn’t buy it though unless it was new age pop hop
Paying for spins is no different from flex getting his money through his thoughts and opinions. All money in the industry is dirty money.
There’s a huge difference btw he promotes himself rappers that have to pay to get their songs played are pathetic as are the ones that are too fucking dumb to write their shit, pop artists the whole lot of em
“And get my records played. On national radio air waves. Without having to pay the DJ” RZA on a song I cant remember that came out a million years ago. In short, this is not new.
What happened is the genre matured a little and a profit making machine. Now the whole thing is just about used for social engineering
Funk flex is a fukin sad ass lost hater
All he does is hate.
Nothing wrong with hating wack Hip-Hop.
In other news…the sky is blue. No shit she paid, so doesn’t everybody else…that’s why nobody gives a shit about dj’s anymore. In a market flooded with the same sound, how can you distinguish yourself over any other artist other than paying? It’s the way it goes now, that’s why everything sucks and every other day there’s a new “hot artist” that sounds the same as the last one. Even drake…apple music was basically an ad for scorpion when it dropped. That’s the modern version of payola, you can’t surf the app without accidentally clicking on the album
IT’S ALOT OF BARDI GANG IN HERE HATING ON FLEX BECAUSE HE EXPOSED YALL GIRL WHILE SHE TALKING SHIT LAS TNIGHT
Expose in what way their are no Cardi fans on this site for the most part everybody thinks her music sucks, but it’s common
sense that artist, labels, management pays for spins nobody cares. Also Flex is a loud mouth hater.
I don’t care if its true or not, i do not listen to pop music so im always happy when they drown in the hype they created and can’t handle it, flex always been on point anyway
he pulled this same sh*t with drizzy and now everyone’s wearing OVO. dont worry Cardi, jealousy is just love and hate at the same time
The same teenagers in this thread who don’t care that Drake doesn’t write his own rhymes either.. Wow how far this culture has fallen.
Lost generation. They accept bullshit and think it’s gold.
To call Cardi B a rapper is like calling a city bus a stretch limo. Her “music” is just awful. If you want music from female rappers with actual talent, listen to MC Lyte, Foxy Brown, Lil Kim, Dej Loaf, Nicki Minaj, Remy Ma, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot.
Cardi B is an insult to rap and hip hop music.
Facts
You know when an actor is really bad and you can tell they are basically reading their lines off a cue card? That’s how Cardiff B sounds when she raps.
Can’t take anything this loser says seriously after he defended Mister Cee saying he ain’t gay dropping bombs like crazy threatening the Breakfast Club crew and all that, and then Mister Cee got caught yet a-fuckin-gain with another tr4nny hoe.
This is the same dude know for taking payola back when Jay-Z was tryna get on. Kevin Liles and Dame Dash blew that shit up. Fucking hypocrite. Stop snitching.
Funny don’t waste no energy on flex crying ass….. shit funny don’t waste energy on none of it…flex is not relevant…. anyways