Chuck D wants Urban radio to “get it right or be gone” — and he’s not just talking about Hot 97 in New York. The Public Enemy co-founder has been in a Twitter war of words with the Hot 97 team since the station’s Summer Jam concert on June 1, when he derided “what a sloppy fiasco (the station) has made of Hip-Hop.”
Reached by Billboard backstage before the group’s Parklife Weekender festival appearance Sunday in Manchester, England, D said his unhappiness about the Summer Jam — particularly over the prolific use of the N-word and a line-up D felt did not adequately represent the New York hip-hop community — was “the last straw” in a general dissatisfaction over the state of rap and radio stations that play and brand themselves with the music. read more at billboard
