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101.1 the wiz almost never plays new music they play usher songs from like 5 yrs ago they never play the jams that people wnat to hear. the wiz has got ot be the worst i heard alot of rap stations, philly, new york, baltimore, d.c., chicago, los angeles, dallas, oklahoma city, nashville, orlando the list goes on and on anyway the point im trying to make is the cincinnati 101.1 the wiz is the owrst because they play the same old music every second, they say new joint like once a day and the new joint are ussaly songs that came out months and months ago worst station ever terrible every station is better then the wiz!!!
Atlantas scam is they create their own celebrities so that they don't have to pay real ones to come to the city. Its a very impressive system they have going in Atlanta. Its much cheaper to get TI or Young Jeezy to host a party than to get say a Kanye West or Snoop Dogg to do it. They get these guys when tehy are local pick n choose who they want to make a star. Make they a star n then wait for the new star to return the favor. The radio stations clubs local djs the newspaper are all in on this this. Its an economic sector here. The more Atlanta stars Atlanta makes the more other smaller cities in the region want a piece of these new stars for a higher price.
So we are suppose to sit back and wait on NYC and LA to blow us up?
NYC does the same thing. Why is it ok for NYC to do this but ATL can't?
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I'm in Macon, GA. We have 3 hip hop stations. 97.9 WIBB, Power 107 and Blazin 92.3
I've always wondered why we have 3 stations, yet when I was in bigger cities like Orlando and Miami a couple months ago I couldn't even find that many in those cities. There stations seemed different too. They seemed to play more "pop" type of hip hop songs that would cater to the general population of people as a whole.
I'm in Macon, GA. We have 3 hip hop stations. 97.9 WIBB, Power 107 and Blazin 92.3
I've always wondered why we have 3 stations, yet when I was in bigger cities like Orlando and Miami a couple months ago I couldn't even find that many in those cities. There stations seemed different too. They seemed to play more "pop" type of hip hop songs that would cater to the general population of people as a whole.
Our stations seem........hood lol.
Augusta is like that too. They have Foxie, Power and the Wiz(across the River in SC). I believe that Fayetteville NC has 2 or 3 as well. It seems like cities like Augusta have one station with a more Southern vibe, one with more of a Northern vibe and the other has a mix of old and new stuff(including R&B). This is pretty common in smaller Southern metros too. I can only think of maybe a couple of smaller non Southern metros that have more than one station that plays Hip Hop.
Southern California has the worst and best hip-hop stations in the country.
Power 106 is a terrible station. I've heard better hip-hop stations all over America--Cincinnati, Lexington, Birmingham, etc. I've heard clips of the old Power 106 from the 1980s (on YouTube) and it was a good station then...and then corporate %*#^ took over.
By contrast, 93.5 KDAY is a great station. Just...great! Old school hip-hop, or at least mostly stuff from the 1980s and 1990s. Huge West Coast emphasis, so guys like 2Pac, Dre, Snoop, Ice Cube, E-40, Lloyd Banks, and Eazy-E get a lot of play time. It may be a corporate station but it doesn't feel very "corporate," at least compared to 106 or most stations around the country.
Night and freakin' day.
Side note: 106 KMEL in the SF Bay Area just went from great to average with the termination of one longtime DJ, Chuy Gomez. He made the morning show one of the few worth listening to in the country. But he's "too old" or whatever. Corporate decision I'm sure and not one of KMEL management, but that was top story news in the Bay.
I would have to say Pierre, South Dakota's KGFX "The Hip-Hoppiest Spot in Central Dakotalands" is the worst. Their only DJ (Old McDonald E-I-E-I-O) refuses to play any music and his entire show consists of reading crop reports and describing the tractors that drive by his studio.
I'm in Macon, GA. We have 3 hip hop stations. 97.9 WIBB, Power 107 and Blazin 92.3
I've always wondered why we have 3 stations, yet when I was in bigger cities like Orlando and Miami a couple months ago I couldn't even find that many in those cities. There stations seemed different too. They seemed to play more "pop" type of hip hop songs that would cater to the general population of people as a whole.
Our stations seem........hood lol.
I just came back from Florida this weekend. What in the world happened to 102 jamz in Orlando? It was like a fusion of hip hop and pop but more pop.
I'll vote for Minneapolis/St. Paul. Not very good variety or music for a city its size. It may be that I can't stand modern hip-hop though, and I don't listen to 88.9 (the "true" hip-hop station).
Im from the east coast and had to hang my head in shame when I heard the 'true' hip hop Minneapolis' station. It may stink to have radio one monotonous trash but it's worse when the station is low budget like there. The DJs are terrible mixers and people talking ramble on and on between some of the most commercial songs from 5 years ago (think Nelly and Ja Rule). The mix show was cool, since it was like a college station, but the daytime music made me literally turn into best buy to get an auxiliary cord.
Gotta go with 102 jams in Greensboro, NC. Childish, terrible, same songs every two hours.....
What happened?? When we used to drive to VA, I used to love listening to this station when driving through Greensboro. I rarely listen to the radio, but streetz 94.5 here in Atlanta is one of my favorite stations and they actually show A LOT of love to the new up and coming artists that are here in Atlanta. I actually do prefer to listen to them over V103 and Hot1079. Also, I havent been to Orlando in a while, but I remember their radio stations being terrible.
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