Sizzling 97’s DJ Drewski Vows Not to Play Diss Data on Radio
DJ Drewski will no extended perform any new music that involves disses aimed at rival rappers.
The Very hot 97 mainstay took to his Instagram Tales on Tuesday to make the announcement, expressing he’s pulling the plug on “diss/gang” documents.
“I’m not supporting no additional diss/gang tunes!” he wrote. “If ya dissing each other in the music, do not even send it to me! I never care if the artist sends it, the label sends it, your huge Homie sends it! I will not help or engage in any longer Diss/Gang data on the radio! We r shedding way too many youthful men and girls to the streets!”
Drewski additional, “If you make drill tunes, there are a great deal of drill music without having dissing your opps or smoking your opps! Stage up your pen activity and creativity. No rationale why every week a person is obtaining locked up or killed. I can’t modify the planet, but I can quit supporting the nonsense. I confess I’m a supporter of the drill information and supported from the starting. But it’s only getting even worse. SMH.”
“I come to feel new music has a super sturdy impact on our lifestyle and streets,” Drewski informed Elaborate immediately after creating the announcement. “So when we keep showcasing and marketing these records that are inciting violence it just adds gas to the hearth. When we make it cool on major platforms to go ‘shoot up the opps’ we are sending the wrong information.”
Drewski continued, “Radio DJs like myself are supporting it and record labels are putting money at the rear of it and it is just obtaining out of regulate. Just about every week yet another youthful person or female is acquiring killed or likely to jail. There will often be violence in the hood for the reason that of the way it is structured but I won’t be the one to increase to this broken technique.”
When questioned what constitutes a diss report, Drewski responded, “What makes it is a Diss record is when you name an person or unique gang in your lyrics insinuating you are on the lookout to do damage to them. Even when you mention a deceased person and insinuate you are ‘smoking on your lifeless opps’ like that is not amazing. The style is at a position it can expand and the artist earning the music can stage it up.”
Other folks working in radio like Ebro Darden responded to Drewski’s announcement on social media.
Drewski’s conclusion to no for a longer time participate in this tunes arrives amid modern tragedy in the rap group. Brooklyn artist TDott Woo was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon in Canarsie, Brooklyn, in the vicinity of the intersection of East 98th Street and Avenue L. He was transported to Brookdale Hospital, wherever he was pronounced useless. Meanwhile, increasing New York rapper Nas Blixky was reportedly shot on Monday.