Method Man Says He Won’t Do Hot 97 Summer Jam Again Due to the Crowd

[King Poetic]

At this point meth and redman is strictly overseas artist who appreciate older artists

Here in the states meth and red and others rap legends have to do smaller arenas

 

[tremonthustler1]

No wonder he felt out of place, what the fukk is this shyt?

MASA

Where is to throw her off a stage?

 

[Finesse]

Didnt even know there was a summer jam

 

[KnowledgeOfSelf17]

It's not Funk Flex's fault, but you're right about everything else. Flex has always tried to keep real hip-hop in the mix. He's brought all types of rappers to his Freestyle show which has helped careers. There was a brief period some years ago he even started a YouTube DJ mix show under Hot 97 where he would bring on pioneering DJs to do sets.

Hip-Hop radio in NYC doesn't have subgenres. In California, I believe they have a few stations that focus on or partly cater to older rap.

I assume NorCal stations play local rap heavily. New York has gone through so many scenes, subgenres and potential superstars since the 2000s but the mainstream never saw it because the radio never platformed them much or at all.

We a station called the block, 94.7 it’s mostly early 2000’s and below

College radio is the only hope for locals

 

[SpacelySprockets]

It's not Funk Flex's fault, but you're right about everything else. Flex has always tried to keep real hip-hop in the mix. He's brought all types of rappers to his Freestyle show which has helped careers. There was a brief period some years ago he even started a YouTube DJ mix show under Hot 97 where he would bring on pioneering DJs to do sets.

Hip-Hop radio in NYC doesn't have subgenres. In California, I believe they have a few stations that focus on or partly cater to older rap.

I assume NorCal stations play local rap heavily. New York has gone through so many scenes, subgenres and potential superstars since the 2000s but the mainstream never saw it because the radio never platformed them much or at all.

The thing with Funk Flex is yeah he does his youtube freestyles but he's not actually doing anything to help when he's on air. He comes on every night and plays the same bullshyt, he finds time to sneak Swag Surfin literally everyday into his set in the year 2024 but we can't consistently get classic Mobb Deep, Dipset, G Unit, Wu Tang, etc as often. He's 60 years old trying to keep up with the early 20s crowd when he should be catering to the audience that he identifies with most and the era he became a household name in. I hear DJ Clue on Power 105 playing classic late 90s/early 2000s stuff way more than I do Funk Flex.

I do think that NY needs a station that caters to playing older rap, WBLS does it sometimes but it's mostly R&B.

 

[The War Report]

shocked me too. I re-evaluated where I stood in life and then it hit me

1. I don't listen to Hot 97 anymore, not even by accident. Either I plug in my iPod with 13000 songs and press shuffle or I play a podcast. If I'm ridin with family and they have the radio on, it's always some Spanish shyt.
2. I wasn't even thinking about when it was coming or who was on it. Didn't even care for the ads.
3. This ain't for me anymore.

The Hip Hop 50 Concert at Yankee Stadium was right up my alley. This is just a reflection that I'm disconnected mostly from what they think is in.

Honestly. The shyt that comes out from DR is a lot more exciting to me these days.

 

[wizworld]

I am DYING laughing at the clip

Let's be honest those synchronized steps they are doing in the clip are UNC'D out

These little crackhead nikkas have every right to point and laugh this is quite foreign to them

Respect to Meth for not wanting to deal with all that, it's not like Red & Meth have issues getting booked.

 

[Deltron]

If this was the 30th year, they should’ve did it big and had 2 stages: one for the older/legacy acts that held down Summerjam in its heyday, and another with all the recent/relevant acts

Based off this, I thought that was the case

But I guess it didn't happen like that

 

[wizworld]

thats how this generation see these guys

NOPE

THE YOUNG ONES are the ones that look sick bro. It's the young ones that smoke sprayed weed, pop pills, use different forms of heroin and start developing unnatural skin colors.

 

[Big Boss]

The younger generation think he's Tariq lawyer

 

[Rasille]

This is what happens when you push trash for years. Ebro fukked up Hot 97.

 

[Elim Garak]

 

[Cool Dr. Money]

Summer Jam has the same problem the BET awards does our super stars don’t show up anymore and it doesn’t help that they banned a artist for his political views but rapping about gang banging and spinning on his “opps” is acceptable

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

Method man fans and 41 fans together?

 

[frush11]

Summer Jam been struggling to sell tickets in general.

It's crazy how Ebro and Rosenberg singlehandedly turned Hot 97 to irrelevancy, yet the station still won't fire them.

How tho, it's not like those 2 are making any real decisions.

A lot off factors are at play here that led to this place.