Funkmaster Flex Answers Drake's HOT 97 Diss

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Aug 7, 2016
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(WWETV) Drake is currently on his Summer Sixteen Tour and he hit the famous Madison Square Garden in New York City. Before the Toronto Rapper hit the Big Apple, Hot 97's Executive Ebro Darden made news with stating how Eminem may jump into the beef with Drake and Joe Budden. It later came out that Ebro was making a joke, but this didn't stop Drake from creating a New York "State of Mind" moment when he attacked one of the biggest hip hop stations in the world HOT 97 and its Deejay Funkmaster Flex by stating they should fire the radio personality on August 4th.

Funkmaster Flex supposedly has dropped some bombs as he tends to do on his radio broadcast about Future who is on tour with Drake and Jay Z. "I got a few stories to tell tonight. I don't know which one I'm gonna tell first," Funkmaster Flex started. "First of all, Drake, I'm not really worried about you making me lose my job,” Flex said. “70% of your fans wear high heels. The other 30% are guys who wear sandals. I'm not concerned about you." “I don't know if you noticed, but everything is built on top 5,” he said. The veteran dj who use to run in the circles with legendary rappers such as Biggie Smalls thinks Drake falls short of being a top 5 rapper. "I got a few stories to tell tonight. I don't know which one I'm gonna tell first," Funkmaster Flex started. "First of all, Drake, I'm not really worried about you making me lose my job,” Flex said. “70% of your fans wear high heels. The other 30% are guys who wear sandals. I'm not concerned about you." Funkmaster Flex went on to say that Drake's audience is not really that of true hip hop fans. On Drake’s Hot 97 freestyle: "I’ve never commented on that freestyle, never talked about it,” Flex began of a freestyle Drake did in 2009 while looking at a BlackBerry. "That freestyle, we rehearsed it first in this room. He had the BlackBerry out ... I had no idea he was gonna leave the Blackberry out," he said. The DJ alleged that Drake and his team asked Hot 97 to put a video of the freestyle out, despite the fact that he was reading off of a BlackBerry, because they wanted to use its release as proof that he writes his own raps. “They help circulate the video. I'm wondering, why would they put that out? You told Zane Lowe you didn't know the video was coming out. You calling a lot of people liars. Okay. Video comes out, everybody jokes on him on it, but everyone says, 'Yo, but he got bars.' ... You wanted people to think that you write your bars. You wanted people to think on that BlackBerry, those were yours, that you wrote that. You wanted to solidify that because you knew this day would come when people might see or question your pen." On Meek Mill’s accusation that Drake uses ghostwriters: “When those reference tracks came out ... you had Quentin Miller put out a press release,” Funkmaster Flex said, referring to alleged reference tracks by Miller that he played on-air at Hot 97, as well as a Tumblr post Miller had posted at the time, in which he denied being a ghostwriter for Drake. (“I watched this man piece together words in front of me… I watched him write/ replace bars 2- 3 at a time on 6pm in NY.. I witnessed him light up, go in and freestyle madonna,” Miller wrote of his time in the studio with Drake.) To that, Flex said, “Let me tell you something for people who don’t understand the studio, 'cause I do. No rapper has a guy that could be or people thinkin' is writing for him in the studio directing you or standing next to you while you're in the booth unless he's writing the lyrics ... making sure the delivery's right.” The DJ suggested that Drake should have admitted he had “a couple people who helped me with a couple things” rather than try to “hide it.” “Yes, he writes, but there's a couple key things he didn't, and that's just the way it is,” he clarified, just before wishing Drake well at his Saturday night concert. “My boss can't tell me to play your records. I play them because the people enjoy them, and I enjoy them as well,” he said.