Payola in Radio

Image via Wikipedia Paying for playing your music is still a underground hussel. Payola has been a practice that has been going on since the record business has been around. Many record lablels try to smooth over the Dj's, Radio Programmers, and head of morning shows like Frank Ski of V-103 to get there music played. Payola is illegal and many record companies or artist who have independent record labels try to pay there way into record sales.

ATL radio personality E.T. gets at Jeezy for Payola urswurve.com

Atlanta radio personality E.T. is getting at Jeezy in this video for coming up to the radio station with his CD and some money. Guess payola's still alive these days....but Jeezy paying to play his CD in Atlanta? It must be tough....

Alan Freed, Dick Clark and the Radio Payola Scandal

Fifty-one years ago today DJ Alan Freed was fired from WABC radio when the payola scandal erupted. Here's the story behind that era of pay-for-play, excerpted from the article by Bill DeMain published in Performing Songwriter Issue 89, ...

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Atlanta's Hot 107 9 DJ ET Blasts ATL Rapper Young Jeezy

Atlanta's Hot 107.9 DJ ET Blasts ATL Rapper Young Jeezy For Paying To Play Wack Music. ET might be going too far with this drama. If he wants to pay let the man pay. At least he wants to hold his own by paying and not asking for a hand out. What you ...

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Diddy and Dirty Money

Image via Wikipedia His first name should be Pitful Diddy instead of P-Diddy. Pitful Diddy always seems to be on a track with a his new artist. Last nights American Music Awards with Diddy was an example of his ego getting in the way. I really think he should have let the girls Dirty Money shine on their on last night without Puffy all over the track still trying to rap. I think I just said a rhyme.. lol, I really don't like how the Bad Boy label executive has help launch careers and then turns around and destroys your shit in a single breath. Dirty Money is the newest R&B group that puffy has planned to push out in the front of the public eye. Danity Caine was his last creation along with the boy band that Diddy screwed both of them over.

I think Puffy Daddy need to sit his ass down some where he still think he is the artist and the label which is a bad thing. Nicki Minaj just fired his ass for bad management. I think the performance last night was a real joke.