But - crucially, it could be argued - this wasn’t just Mister Cee congratulating himself for existing. How else to read his spinning of Brand Nubian’s “Love Me or Leave Me Alone”? How else to read the set’s most triumphant moment, when Cee blended Janet Jackson’s “Doesn’t Really Matter” - he played it from the beginning, allowing us to ponder Janet muttering “Doesn’t matter…” - into Maino’s “Hi Hater.” To repeat: He blended Janet Jackson - who has entire albums basically devoted to exploring bisexuality - into a song called “Hi Hater.” How else to read him slipping Lil Kim’s “No Matter What They Say” chorus (“No matter what people say / We got it going on / Who cares about what they think”) - in between Stevie Wonder and Alicia Meyers.īut before long the mix was more about Cee’s gratitude for still having his place in hip-hop. Today’s set celebrated Mister Cee’s survival, but it also meant to provoke his regressive naysayers. This is true for any DJ, let alone one that’s been in the game for three decades, but it’s especially true for the one who has found himself in the middle of a tug-of-war between hip-hop conservatives and those that want to make the culture inclusive the LBGTQ community. But as today’s mix proved, Mister Cee really came back because, as much as he wants to open up about his personal life (he’s done so twice this year on the station’s morning show), ultimately he speaks with his hands. Mister Cee came back to Hot 97 partly because his boss - station program director Ebro Darden - asked him to take his job back this morning. slot, where he has gifted the tri-state area with the type of rap music - often old, always expertly curated - that they don’t really play on the radio anymore. Today Mister Cee returned to his perch in the noon-to-1-p.m. Mister Cee’s resignation lasted less than 24 hours. Less than 10 minutes into the interview Mister Cee began crying. This morning Mister Cee went on Hot 97’s morning show to discuss the fallout from a video that purported to show him with a transgender prostitute. Some hip-hop fans can’t handle the idea of a gay or bisexual male DJ just yet - and the sense was that Mister Cee couldn’t quite handle it either. Mister Cee is wrestling with his life - with his proclivity towards sex workers and the question of his sexuality, to start - and he stepped down, as figures of power often do, so that he wouldn’t be a distraction to an employer that has proven loyal to him. He did so because he has a habit of patronizing prostitutes, some of which have been transgender.
resigned from the most important radio station in hip-hop’s birthplace after 20 years. The day before, the man who DJed for Big Daddy Kane and helped discover Notorious B.I.G. What they were saying - for example: “This is where I wanna be” or “You can hate me now, but I won’t stop now” - functioned as a response to critics, homophobes, shit-stirrers, and anyone else trying to keep one of hip-hop’s greatest down. But the words he was imploring us to listen to weren’t his, of course: They were the words of Nate Dogg and 50 Cent and Janet Jackson and Sly & The Family Stone and Stevie Wonder.
“I’m so happy to say this,” he said before reading an advertisement - and never before had anyone been more pleased to talk to you about a local Toyota dealership. He reiterated throughout the show how blessed he was to be back in the timeslot he never actually deserted. “Just listen to the words, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut,” he repeated, addressing his listeners. “Just listen to the words,” Mister Cee shouted during the middle of his Hot 97 set (which you can stream at the bottom of this post) this afteroon.
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