The Time DJ Funk Master Flex Got Extorted
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Flex was probably still in the BX at the time and easy to line up. Most people just paid him to spin the record and chalked it up as a cost of doing business.
The goon shyt works in the short run, but it's not a smart way to maneuver in the industry. The wolves should be on standby if somebody is trying to do you dirty, but they should be the last resort.
The goon shyt works in the short run, but it's not a smart way to maneuver in the industry. The wolves should be on standby if somebody is trying to do you dirty, but they should be the last resort.
Yeh that was years ago and also flex knew those guys so it would have been tough for him not to comply. I'm sure Flex probably received lots thousands of payola under the table money throughout the years.
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Around the time before the Fugees blew up, Flex had so much pull....he forced them to have the record label release the single or remix produced by his man, Salaam Remi.
If they didn't, he wouldn't spin them on hot97.
The beef he has with Treach is partly because of the Tupac slander, but also because Naughty doesn't play payola games. They tour and eat regardless of radio spins for new material, so they didn't pay for play.
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Old dusty dude talking about illegal activity that happen in the 90s it’s time for people to grow up
he was asked a question about the situation and he simply responded with an answerIt's not like he was bragging or gloating about it he was just explaining how shyt went down
And real talk me being an 'old dusty dude" myself who worked in radio during the early 90s this was a common practice in the hip hop game back then...when all options have been exhausted
So Personally I APPRECIATE HIM SPEAKING UPON THIS
because it debunks the myth that the old school Boom bap age and golden era of hip hop was all one GREAT KUMBAYA CULTURE OF LOVE PEACE AND HAPPINESS
I remember one fateful night having to fill in for my boss who was the nightime mixshow dj as well as PD for our AM radio station at the time around 91'
He showed up about a hour late with his face swollen and a black eye..
I'm Iikw wtf happen to you
His response...
"I don't wanna talk about it ...just cue my records up!"
I'm like OKAY
Come to find out from the engineer that the deejay had some "visitors" show up to his apartment to "discipline" him for not showing them love on the air (playing thier records)....after they been giving this dude money and girls and the red carpet treatment even though he was an out of Towner (he was from up top) basically finessing what he ASSUMED were a bunch of slow country bumpkin dudes
Come to find out he had a track record of doing this
Failing to realize thier are real street dudes everwhere
Now I didn't agree with the way it went down
But I UNDERSTAND
Because I eventually went to work with these same type of individuals (street teams..Indy record promoters)
thier is consequences and reprucussions for your actions in life
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By “the time” you mean his entire career?
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Nicca said, "Flex's softer than a baby's ass -- yeah!" without even breaking his voice laughing.
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It's not like he was bragging or gloating about it he was just explaining how shyt went down
And real talk me being an 'old dusty dude" myself who worked in radio during the early 90s this was a common practice in the hip hop game back then...when all options have been exhausted
So Personally I APPRECIATE HIM SPEAKING UPON THIS
because it debunks the myth that the old school Boom bap age and golden era of hip hop was all one GREAT KUMBAYA CULTURE OF LOVE PEACE AND HAPPINESS
I remember one fateful night having to fill in for my boss who was the nightime mixshow dj as well as PD for our AM radio station at the time around 91'
He showed up about a hour late with his face swollen and a black eye..
I'm Iikw wtf happen to you
His response...
"I don't wanna talk about it ...just cue my records up!"
I'm like OKAY
Come to find out from the engineer that the deejay had some "visitors" show up to his apartment to "discipline" him for not showing them love on the air (playing thier records)....after they been giving this dude money and girls and the red carpet treatment even though he was an out of Towner (he was from up top) basically finessing what he ASSUMED were a bunch of slow country bumpkin dudes
Come to find out he had a track record of doing this
Failing to realize thier are real street dudes everwhere
Now I didn't agree with the way it went down
But I UNDERSTAND
Because I eventually went to work with these same type of individuals (street teams..Indy record promoters)
thier is consequences and reprucussions for your actions in life
lol ur not this naive
We like to talk about this stuff, but in reality its shyt like this that fukked up the music, its not just rap its all genres. We celebrate these people, but they fukk up everything good from the nightclubs to the music, to even getting knowledge. We love to say its white old men, which is true, but its also these type of guys.
What's crazy is they get old, and start talking about we need to do better?
This nikkas Hassan Campbell constantly talks about how black people need to fix ourselves, then talks about how he is a real hitter. I see the same shyt with all these old gangstas. They want to be Malcolm X now that the young boys took their place, but turn around and say the young boys aint real killas. These nikkas get no respect because they don't know who they want to be. People just smile in their face, but you know they get no respect because no one actually does what they say
What's crazy is they get old, and start talking about we need to do better?
This nikkas Hassan Campbell constantly talks about how black people need to fix ourselves, then talks about how he is a real hitter. I see the same shyt with all these old gangstas. They want to be Malcolm X now that the young boys took their place, but turn around and say the young boys aint real killas. These nikkas get no respect because they don't know who they want to be. People just smile in their face, but you know they get no respect because no one actually does what they say
it really was millions that's why the Attoney General from New York got involved.....
Emmis Broadcasting the parent company of HOT 97 was the main target of the investigation and Dj Enuff and and numerous other Big Dawg Pitbull deejays (Funk Flex deejay coalition) was namedropped in that paperwork
the latest crack downs earlier this week on payola lead by NY attorney general Elliott Spitzer, a lot of industry folks are likely to lay low and find other ways in which to get pay for play. Look for a lot of movement in the areas of satellite and Internet radio as major stations will began to make major investments in those entities and try and sow things up. In those arenas payola is not illegal.
The other thing to watch for is to see if the FCC which is now officially calling for an payola investigations or attorney generals like Spitzer will start going after folks on tax evasion charges
Payola: The Dirty Industry Practice-That's Ruining Hip Hop | Hip-Hop and Politics
It was also discovered that FRANCHISE RECORD POOL another company owned by Flex was just a "front" for payola and alledged money laundering purposes
this shyt has been going on for awhile......
Krs One put FLEX and Tim Westwood another Big Dawg Pitbull associate on blast for running these "payola schemes"
and Nas exposed Flex as well when he went on his infamous Power 105 rant during Steph Lova's show ....and Flex byatch azz not man enough to confront Nas...
put hands on STEPH LOVA and she sued HIM.....and Big dawg pitbulls and the franchise record pool along with Tracy Cloherty his boss at the time at HOT 97 for initiating this attack
Saunders v Taylor
and negroes have the nerve to say Suge Knight and the Bloods corrupted the industry
the RAP GAME been a cess pool of criminal activitiy since it's inception
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