Hot97 is knee deep in another scandal. The station is fast on it was to being so last month, with their consistently bad morning show programming and poor judgment. Recently, the station aired a parody song entitled “The Tsunami Song” during their morning show, hosted by Miss Jones, which mocked the tsunami victims. Many were outraged at the station’s insensitivity but it didn’t stop there.
Taken from Hiphopmusic.com
“On this tape you hear them introducing the "Tsunami Song," then Miss Jones and co-host Todd Lynn launching into an abusive tirade against Miss Info when she voices her objection to it. Miss Jones finally tells Info she's only complaining because "you feel superior, probably because you're Asian."
Then, after Miss Info has said the song is offensive to Asians, co-host Todd Lynn informs her: "I'm gonna start shooting Asians." Yes, he really says that. It's at 3:37 on the mp3. “
Since then, several things have happened. Miss Jones has been suspended from Hot97, Jin made a Hot 97 dis record, and a petition is circling around the internet. As I am in the Cap City of Albany, I didn’t hear this firsthand, but the story and mp3s are everywhere! I suggest you go to the source and read all the info yourself. Check out Jay Smooth, (damn, 2 mentions in a week). There are two viewpoints to everything, as Byron Crawford shows here!
Hot 97 issued a press release in regards to the “Tsunami Song”. Wanna read it, here it goes! (Forgive me, I’ve been watching “In Living Color”, look for my review soon!)
NEW YORK, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ —
Miss Jones and the HOT 97 Morning team have been indefinitely suspended for the airing of a song that made light of a catastrophic event, as well as for comments made at the time the song was aired. Earlier this week, Miss Jones said on the air: "I apologize to all who have been offended by my poor decision to go along with playing that insulting(to say the least) Tsunami song. I should have known better and I didn't. So I'm sorry and hopefully we can move forward from this, or I can move forward from this being a better hostess, because I am better than that, and I know better than that — and you deserve better radio than that."
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Article comments
1 - Hashim
you beat me to the punch. I was about to post about this.
2 - Aaman
I do not understand how bad behavior in the past can condone bad behavior now - the song was reprehensible, if sung to a familiar tune, and even if equivalent to many other similar songs.
Low culture at it's best.
3 - Aaman
Great post - love the title, and your opinions on hip-hop
4 - L.Cue
Sorry Hashim! I wan't going to post at all untill I googeld it and saw it was getting press all over the world. I actually thought it would die away like everything else, but it seems the people have taken notice, as they should.
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5 - Eric Olsen
very thorough job on a very touchy subject, thanks L! Thanks for all the insight beyond just the main story
6 - padhraic
I would say this is cause for celebration.
When america's diverse cultures unite together in mocking brown people who drowned on some island on the other side of the world. Well we've come a long way baby.
7 - Nick Jones
Some people are just scum.
8 - James
We are trying to host a debate about this situation being Howard Stern receives so much scrutiny from the FCC, I'm eager to see the end results for Hot97.
The debate AND the MP3 Links, both the song and the argument, (bandwidth unlimited) is here
9 - PoMzJonez
Ms Jones is a hypocrite. That is all I can say. She must of done it because they knew that they'd be loosing or are loosing the rating game to Star and Buc. They are on another radio station in NYC, that began to air in NYC on Jan 17,2005.
10 - HW Saxton
Interesting write up, L-Cue. In post # 7
Nick Jones states that "some people are
just scum"... How true.Where I live out
west,a weatherman on the local news was
just given the boot for referring to Dr.
Martin Luther King as Martin Luther Coon
Jr.& as Martin Luther Kong Jr. Nice,huh?
Switching subjects rather abruptly but:
That was cool of ya to give DJ Q-Bert a
shout out. I did a review of his movie
"Wave Twisters" here on BC last year.
Of course,I got no response whatsoever.
11 - Asian
.All at once you could hear the screaming niggaz and no one was safe from the wave there were africans drowning, little blackies swept away you could hear god laughing, "swim you b*tches swim"
So now you're screwed, it's the Hurricane you better run or kiss your ass away, go find your mommy I just saw her float by, a tree went through her head and now the children will be sold to child slavery...
Sound familar ?? It should, it's your song changed around a little bit ...
12 - DrPat
I doubt very much your words will get back to the artist. Point well taken, however.
13 - dee
Miss Jones CD sucks!
14 - dee
I wonder how nigger jones feel about the song Asian posted. Girlfriend, I'm a proud black african woman, but i'm ashame of what jones and her crew did. And she's trying to come out with an album??? I did the sample listen and it SUCKS! I hope people like her would just go away. There's a difference between african american and a nigger. A nigger is who no one wants to be, and an african american is everything else. Oh and by the way, she does not look like how she does on her CD. She actually look like a 1 cent monkey in real life.
15 - regina
i love the morning miss.jones you are my girl.
16 - Pedro
Miss Jones is a bitter fatass who hates on everyone and their mother simply because her pathetic music career never took off. She really should just nuke herself.