UNNECESSARY CONTROVERSY: FLOW 93.5FM'S JENI WAS DEFINITELY MISHEARD!

Roughly two weeks ago, the Juno award nominations were announced. These are the Grammys for Canada. The day after that, there was a major barage of e-mails sent to me here at the HipHossip office. The roughly 10 e-mails complained that when Jeni, FLOW 93.5FM mid-day personality announced the rap Juno nominations, she referred to one of the nominees ignorantly. The nominee category in question is the coveted rap recording of the year.

When Jeni announced the nominees, she said the name of the artist and album. For example, Kardinal Offishall, Not 4 Sale.......but when she got to Regent Park's rap group, Point Blank, e-mailers claim she said......"Point Blank.....some album." What Jeni said was "Point Blank....SAME album." This album is self titled and it was a complete misunderstanding.!!

This devastated Jeni McKenzie that she called me here almost in tears if not already. She was on the air that day too. Jeni is one of a few radio personalities in Toronto that actually promote Canadian artists. I placed a call to Wayne Williams, Program Director of FLOW 93.5FM who spoke with me in detail after the program logs were pulled. The shows are logged as in RECORDED and one can go back and listen to the audios.

Jeni e-mailed me.....

"I am disappointed that anyone would think I would ever go on the air and diss someone who has put their heart and soul into an album! I know how hard this business is and I was proud of EACH of the nominees!" Luckily we have the ability to pull up my live breaks from our logger to prove that I never said anything like that.

For all the readers that complained, it was not any form of hating on Point Blank. I spoke to their Manager about it as well and she wasn't aware of the broadcast as she was not listening at the time. Here at HipHossip, I like to always dissect the controversy out there and set the record straight. Yes I am a pro-Flow and pro-Z listener but the fact remains that there are still haters in the city trying to start something. This is Toronto, where you see the world in one place. 10,000 accents, everyone's an immigrant and the way I say "same" might sound like "some" to others.

BTW, Dou you know that Jeni McKenzie was HipHossip's Radio Woman of the Year. If you have not listened to her interview, click below. She's on Facebook as JJ McKenzie. Join her and get to know JJ.

FLOW 93.5FM IS HIPHOSSIP.COM'S RADIO WOMAN OF THE Y
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