Funkmaster Flex appeared on Hot 97 Saturday night to address Drakeâs comments he made during night one of his âSummer Sixteenâ tour at Madison Square Garden.
Drake spit a freestyle that many outletsâincluding Complexâreported that he said âfuck Hot 97.â When audio and video of his performance surfaced online, he actually rapped, âThey telling lies on Hot 97, thatâs how it goes / I told âem fire Funk Flex and then Iâll do your show / Plus, me and Kanye just got out the studio / My first night in the Garden, feeling like D Rose.â
Drake and Funkmaster Flex havenât been on good terms since the Hot 97 DJ/radio personality tried to expose him as a rapper who uses ghostwriters. It was during this time last year that Flex leaked alleged reference tracks from Quentin Miller for Drakeâs âKnow Yourself,â âUsed To,â â10 Bands,â and âR.I.C.O.â While Drake eventually responded to Flex with a subliminal jab on âCharged Upâ and dropped a Grammy-nominated diss called âBack to Back,â it was Flex who publicized his alliance with Meek Mill, debuting his own diss record âWanna Knowâ on his radio show.
Flex promised he had a story to tell earlier this week, and he definitely delivered one. During the live broadcast, the DJ first reassured listeners he was not worry about losing his job because of Drake's comments: "Want me to tell you why? Because 70 percent of your fans wear high-heels, the other 30 percent are guys who wear sandals," he said.
Flex then went on to tell the story behind the infamous BlackBerry footage. You remember? That video shot by Cipher Sounds inside the Hot 97 studio, where Drake was filmed using a smartphone during a freestyle in 2009. Flex claims that video was never supposed to be released because the team didn't want to embarrass Drake; however, Drizzy's team supposedly pressured Cipher to release the footage and eventually helped circulate itâall because Drake wanted to use it as evidence that he writes his own raps.Â
"You wanted people to think that you write your bars, you wanted people to think that on that BlackBerry those [words] were yours, and that you wrote that" Flex said. "I see through you. And thatâs why you so angry."Â
Of course, Flex brought up the reference tracks again: "Let me tell you something, Drizzy. You know what you should've just done, bruh? Reference tracks came, you should've just said, 'Bruh, I got a couple people who help me with a couple things and keep it moving. It doesn't change you."
Flex later admitted that Drake is a respectable artist who sells a lot of records; but if a rapper is trying to be the best lyricist in the world, "that cant happen when youâre not writing," Flex explained. "Now I'm not saying he doesn't write anything. I don't want to take anybody's work away from them. Yes, he writes, but there's a couple of key things that he didnât," Flex said.Â
Listen to the full audio, in which Flex also mentions Drizzy's physical altercation with Diddy, below.Â