T.I. Defends Lil Wayne's NYC Comments

Lil Wayne's "I don't like New York" comments have continued to spark conversation and a small backlash against the New Orleans native amongst some fans in the Big Apple. Fabolous referenced the remarks and a senator even blasted Wayne for his comments, but fellow southern hip hop star T.I. told Hot 97 that people probably took what Wayne said too literally and too far. "When I first came in the game, it was a feat for a Southern artist, let alone an Atlanta artist, to make his way up to Hot 97 and get himself mix show play, let alone...heavy rotation," T.I. told Angie Martinez, which led to them discussing Wayne's remarks. "You gotta understand where a man coming from," said T.I. "I'm not saying I support anyone not liking New York. What I'm saying is, people who haven't gone through that process of having their freedom taken from you...you have to take all this into consideration." Wayne, of course, was incarcerated in New York's Riker's Island for the better part of a year. "I don't think he meant nothin' by it. I don't think he meant any disrespect," added T.I.

Lil Wayne's "I don't like New York" comments have continued to spark conversation and a small backlash against the New Orleans native amongst some fans in the Big Apple. Fabolous referenced the remarks and a senator even blasted Wayne for his comments, but fellow southern hip hop star T.I. told Hot 97 that people probably took what Wayne said too literally and too far.

"When I first came in the game, it was a feat for a Southern artist, let alone an Atlanta artist, to make his way up to Hot 97 and get himself mix show play, let alone...heavy rotation," T.I. told Angie Martinez, which led to them discussing Wayne's remarks.

"You gotta understand where a man coming from," said T.I. "I'm not saying I support anyone not liking New York. What I'm saying is, people who haven't gone through that process of having their freedom taken from you...you have to take all this into consideration."

Wayne, of course, was incarcerated in New York's Riker's Island for the better part of a year.

"I don't think he meant nothin' by it. I don't think he meant any disrespect," added T.I.

Rosenberg, Angie Martinez Address Controversy

Hot 97 DJs Angie Martinez and Peter Rosenberg both spoke at-length about the ongoing controversy surrounding Nicki Minaj pulling out of her set at this year's Summer Jam following Rosenberg's derogatory comments aimed at her.

Martinez says that she agreed with fellow Hot 97 personality Funkmaster Flex, who said that all sides are out of order in the incident.

"When [Flex] said that last night, I was like, 'And good night!' Grand opening, grand closing," she joked. "At some point, somebody could've stopped this. Behind the scenes, things happen all the time - it's the truth. Labels argue with the station, we argue with the artists, we kiss, we make up. We all are just trying to do our jobs…and provide for the listeners, the artists are trying to make music - we're trying to work together. Sometimes, we have disagreements. Most of the time, they get resolved; this did not get resolved. It happened in the middle of Summer Jam when Ebro is dealing with a hundred artists [and] a million backstage passes."

"I'm sure Nicki felt [disrespected] about [what Rosenberg said]…[Rosenberg] probably didn't realize it was going to be such a big deal, I think he was just in the zone," she continued. "In my personal opinion, maybe not the best time to have said that when she's coming to the building…but I still think they should have performed. It wasn't that serious, and honestly, they probably would've resolved it if everybody had just calmed down."

For his part, Rosenberg wasn't apologetic or contrite or even remorseful regarding his part in the entire debacle. He called out Minaj's boyfriend/sideman Safaree for statements he made on Twitter.

"Nicki's boyfriend went on Twitter and said he was gonna punch me in the face because I don't like a pop dance song that his girlfriend made," Rosenberg said on the air. "Word homie? That's your favorite song? Is that your favorite song? A girly a** dance pop song?," Rosenberg said. "I'll tell you what Nicki's boyfriend, you want to punch me in the face because I don't like pop dance songs? Please go right ahead. Yeah, and make that check payable to Peter E. Rosenberg. I got you! I got you! [You gonna sue?] Absolutely!"

Fabolous On "Love & Hip Hop

Fabolous may theoretically be behind much of the drama on the popular VH1 reality show "Love & Hip Hop" due to his romantic histories with Emily B and Kimbella, who are both featured on the show; but he has no interest in becoming a fixture on the series.

"I don't think so," Fab told radio host Angie Martinez when asked if he would ever appear in "Love & Hip Hop." "I really went to support [girlfriend] Emily and something she was doing and I guess her show [cameras] were there and of course they took that and put a trailer or something together and put me in the trailer. ... It's just not my cup of tea. It's one side of what's going on and I don't bash it but I'm really not in support of it either. I don't think it depicts me as I am. It just depicts a one-sided version of what's really going on. It's a few different things that I don't agree with, with the show. Ownership is one of them, there's no ownership on her side. She's kind of a piece of somebody else's show and I'm not with that. I put too many years in business of me working in this industry for me to be a piece of somebody else's things."

50 Cent Calls Up Angie Martinez - Screams on Q (WORLDSTARHIPHOP CEO)

Here is what you didn't hear on the radio..







This thing was fake. WorldStar goes down... he and 50 talk, 50 takes credit for taking it down, they cause a media storm, stage a fight on the radio...they both laugh all the way to the bank. Because now Worldstar can raise advertising prices and make more money. Well played gentlemen. Now back to our regularly scheduled nonsense.