HOT 97..not so HOT!

[radiotruth75]

After listening more and more to the mix show dj's on Sirius channels Shade 45, and Hip Hop Nation, I've come to the conclusion that HOT 97 and Power have truly sold-out.

Shame on you HOT 97. Power, you're owned by CC so you get a "get out of jail free card". I know you're hands are pretty tied

Funkmaster Flex sems to have just gotten lazy. If ya don't care, then why are you still on the air? Acting like your doing some sort of mixshow? DJ Clue, the same can be said for you. Although I have to admit Clue is staying "more true" to hip-hop than Flex. Kast One, and all these other "hacks"..get them off the air already! They can't mix for s**t!

I remember when the mixshow dj's on Hot actually mixed..do you? The "art" of mixing? DJ "I've had ENUFF", Cipha Sounds "like crap", and all these guys..are terrible. They don't mix and talk wayyyy too much.

I miss Tracy Cloherty as PD of HOT. I know she's gone forever, but that's when HOT 97 made me realize what the music and culture was all about. Shame on you HOT 97, you're nothing but a chocolate Z100....reality check

Harsh? Yes. But I hate to see this self-destruction of a station that meant so much to me and others since the early 90's. Good hip hop is still out there, and it's sad to see stations like HOT, do nothing but copy the competition. Back in the day, they were the originators, not the duplicators.

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

This is what is going on on most Urban stations that once leaned heavy on Hip-Hop. PPM has taken over and more R&B is in the mix to attract females. Some station now only mix on weekends, so go figure.

 

[nd2023]

I never liked Hot 97 since the early 90s.

 

[htowler]

After listening more and more to the mix show dj's on Sirius channels Shade 45, and Hip Hop Nation, I've come to the conclusion that HOT 97 and Power have truly sold-out.

Shame on you HOT 97. Power, you're owned by CC so you get a "get out of jail free card". I know you're hands are pretty tied

Funkmaster Flex sems to have just gotten lazy. If ya don't care, then why are you still on the air? Acting like your doing some sort of mixshow? DJ Clue, the same can be said for you. Although I have to admit Clue is staying "more true" to hip-hop than Flex. Kast One, and all these other "hacks"..get them off the air already! They can't mix for s**t!

I remember when the mixshow dj's on Hot actually mixed..do you? The "art" of mixing? DJ "I've had ENUFF", Cipha Sounds "like crap", and all these guys..are terrible. They don't mix and talk wayyyy too much.

I miss Tracy Cloherty as PD of HOT. I know she's gone forever, but that's when HOT 97 made me realize what the music and culture was all about. Shame on you HOT 97, you're nothing but a chocolate Z100....reality check

Harsh? Yes. But I hate to see this self-destruction of a station that meant so much to me and others since the early 90's. Good hip hop is still out there, and it's sad to see stations like HOT, do nothing but copy the competition. Back in the day, they were the originators, not the duplicators.

LOL hot97 is playing self destruction as I type. Sorry My Opinion is Tracy Ruined Hot97 during her time.

E-Bro and Jill are just running it further into the ground.

 

[trock]

For the most part, I have to agree. What happened to the informal drops, the slick promotions, the general attitude. I think alot of it has to do with the shooting's that happened in front of their building and gave their "brand" a black eye. I think it's also politics. What I mean is they play alot of Jay-Z (a little too much) 50 cent/Gunit and lil Wayne etc. You don't hear the underground mc's that much anymore. That fresh new guy. I heard one mixer play nothing but Jay Z records for almost an half hour. I like Jay-Z but come on. I think the PPM is scaring the s@#? out of most of the urbans out there causing them to go ultra conservative.

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

For the most part, I have to agree. What happened to the informal drops, the slick promotions, the general attitude. I think alot of it has to do with the shooting's that happened in front of their building and gave their "brand" a black eye. I think it's also politics. What I mean is they play alot of Jay-Z (a little too much) 50 cent/Gunit and lil Wayne etc. You don't hear the underground mc's that much anymore. That fresh new guy. I heard one mixer play nothing but Jay Z records for almost an half hour. I like Jay-Z but come on. I think the PPM is scaring the s@#? out of most of the urbans out there causing them to go ultra conservative.

....not to mention NY's rap game has fallen off. The South took over Hip-Hop a while ago and has been at it for a while. At one time HOT 97 was the Hip-Hop station everyone wanted to sound like, but once again thats when JayZ, DMX, Ja Rule and Lil Kim was hot.

 

[djfrresh]

e-bro destroy hot 97 the mixers are horribe they have the worst moring show in new york.

 

[radiotruth75]

From what I'm hearing on Sirius , NYC IS trying to make a come back! I'm hearing older artists with new music along with the new guys that are apparently being ignored on terrestrial stations like HOT or Power. Kay Slay was actually talking about this same thing on the Streetsweeper show last week.

Back in the day, you had your powers/currents/recurrents and an occasional gold that were based on charts that you'd hear throughout the day, but the mixshows specifically; that was were you heard new s**t, more underground, the stuff that may or may not make it into the charts. And I remember an article in the Source magazine around 92-93 where Flex was interviewed saying that mixshows were the perfect place to break new music, unheard music; and when I go back and listen to tapes I made in the early/mid 90's, (Flex's Street Parties, Mixxmaster Weekends) they were incredible.

Mixshows now don't seem to sound any different from any other "bland" daypart. And yes I'll say it again, these mixers on HOT?....NOT