Ebro, host for New York radio station Hot 97, was on air today (July 28) and addressed why Funkmaster Flex did not premier Meek Mill’s Drake diss track. The Philadelphia rapper was scheduled to appear on Flex’s Hot 97 show yesterday (July 27).
“We specifically were told that Meek had something for Flex last night,” Ebro says. “And we waited and waited and waited and waited and waited. And now y’all can go as hard as y’all want to go at Flex.”
Ebro says that Meek Mill probably promised the track, an answer to Drake’s “Charged Up,” to Flex as a friend. He says that Flex was most likely just promoting what he had been told. When Flex’s show was almost over, Meek posted a preview of a track on Twitter called “Beautiful Nightmare (Drake Diss).”
“We don’t record music. We don’t write rhymes. We play music,” Ebro says. “So we go off people’s word, man. If somebody gives us the word that they wanna rock with something, we gonna rock with it. I can speculate many different ways as to why that song didn’t come through last night. I’m not gonna do that today.”
Ebro says that he encouraged listeners on his Beats 1 radio show to go and listen to Hot 97 for the diss track. He says the fact the track didn’t play made him and the station look bad, but that Hot 97 is still superior to rival Power 105.
“We’re gonna take the beating that we should take,” he says. “That’s fine. I’m comfortable with that. We’ve taken worse beatings. Every time we jump out and do something or attempt to do something, guess who’s standing there trying to be on our heels, trying to talk about us? Power 105. Your entire existence is based on us and everyone knows it. And you can pay Bossip, you can pay all them Black little gossip blogs to post you all the time, fam. You can confuse everyone to make you think you’re really bout this Hip Hop thing, my G. You’re not. And everyone knows it, which is why when anything important in Hip Hop happens, it happens on Hot 97. It’s gonna continue to be that way.”
Meek Mill called out Drake last week, saying he didn’t write his own lyrics. The accusation caused a series of back-and-forth shots between the rappers and their affiliates.
For additional Meek Mill-Drake coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
Yea yea yea. But how many cities and states are yal buzzing in
Heblow tryna save face for those bitches. Y’all lied for the ratings and you know it. Pussy ass bitches.
sick of these radio niggas tryna act like they the artist. play the music and stfu
Lol@spade,truu
I believe it Meek thought about his shows in Canada this week as well as the fact that Nikki’s fans are Drake’s fans so it could be a rough tour going forward and he flaked.
Iagree they act like they are making music.
you can pay all them Black little gossip blogs to post you all the time, fam. You can confuse everyone to make you think you’re really bout this Hip Hop thing, my G. You’re not. And everyone knows it,
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He’s on the radio ranting about Meek Mill, a D-list rapper in this butter soft era no showing on your asses after you promoted the shit all weekend, and you’re talking about being about hip hop? You’re promoting the wackest beef in rap since Bow Wow and Souja Boy, and you’re talking about this “hip hop thing.” Lmao, no wonder so many of you young uns are so confused if you listen to this shit and let it rot your brains.
Hot is losing to Power in ratings, pretty consistently and by a good amount, so yeah, nah.
That move Epitomizes the current times where in, fraudulent emcees, cornball disc jockey’s and aweful music is the trademark of this era, along with tight pants and artists who recite ghost written rhymes and blow kisses at each other. You bastards killed the artform, all you had to do was carry on tradition, instead you cocky onion heads think you created it and allowed corporate america to pimp you out and further disgrace the artform by promoting acts with no talent and giving them large budgets to blow on trash-musik. Need to get back to the two-turntables and mic dat Boom-Bap.
Ebro always acts like someone who just had a few shots. He’s not quite drunk, but he’s feeling himself a little too much… Hot 97 is Source, Power 105 is XXL