106.1 KMEL

[CityDog]

Shit I think 106 is one of the reasons the bay is back. They was slappin bay shit before we started gettin a little bit of shine. Maybe somebody else just got on this shit.

 

[hwdsmith]

u guys have no idea!!! NO station plays as much local shit as KMEL anywhere!!! kmel is forcing other stations to play more local shit. they have done their job. there's so much politics that go into radio. von and scotty put their jobs on the line for the bay! i'm not even gonna elaborate on anything more cuz lacing some of u on reality is like having a conversation with a bear.

LOFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Big-k]

U guys really don't realize how much KMEL helped the bay. Some people wasnt even fuckin with bay music until KMEL started playing it. And out here in LA their stations show no love to new LA artist, shyt the vans song gets played out here more than some crooked-I, no lie!!

 

[4real2reel]

u guys have no idea!!! NO station plays as much local shit as KMEL anywhere!!! kmel is forcing other stations to play more local shit. they have done their job. there's so much politics that go into radio. von and scotty put their jobs on the line for the bay! i'm not even gonna elaborate on anything more cuz lacing some of u on reality is like having a conversation with a bear.

lmao, a bear...i feel u tho

 

[waytooclean]

yea 106.1, fuck some bullshit ass 94.9 ohos pero locos type shit wit the merengue band

 

[eMDe]

106 is the shit.. it just keeps getting better.

 

[Doc Truth]

Its funny how Wild 94.9 try's to act all down with bay shit now. With their "Hypyhy Prize Packs" in that gay ass St. Johns voice. I hate them mothafuckas over there. And that little annoying bitchboy "Hood Rat Miguel" fake ass mothafucka always kisssin ass of artists. He's the type of square that got slapped around in highschool now he thinks he's cool and reinvented himself becasue he's on a weak ass Banda station.

 

[mrjam7]

did you just say eyes but cracy wat's dat sup pos ta mean

locos pero locos= few but crazy its some shit in LA i think were like they play alot of latino rap cause you know how wild 949 was running those were latinos lives adss and shit. but yeah when it comes to bay shit 106 kmel all day

 

[latinluva$]

but yo wasnt it 92.3 that started playin bay music first and then forced 106 kmel top play bay area rap??

 

[ScottFoxKMEL]

but yo wasnt it 92.3 that started playin bay music first and then forced 106 kmel top play bay area rap??

no. bay music was already makin noise on KMEL, and when the people from 92.7 decided to make their station, they thought they could use that as their buiding point. they never seriously marketed any bay music outside of what KMEL was already playing, and they didnt last all that long.

The whole thing was a revenue-generating scam. The owners of 92.7, 3 Points Media, were know for purchasing radio stations across the country, changing the format, and then reselling the station within 6 months.

guess what? 92.7 lasted about 6 months. They were never gonna seriously do anything for the bay. they wanted to take their money and run.

in the long run, all they ever did was drive KMEL's ratings up.

 

[ScottFoxKMEL]

from another post

first off, lets set the timeline correct. When Von and I came to KMEL in 2001, we decided then and there we were gonna try to play more bay artists. But, as maculent said, there wasnt a lot of stuff that was poppin. Before then, the era from 96-2000, the management at KMEL wasnt havin it. There had been incidents wit Too Short and E-40 at Summer Jams, and other stuff, and they just werent gonna deal with it. 2001, new management. Still, its a slow process. But i know for a fact we started playin Bay shit, in the mixshow at least, Jan 15, 2001. My first mix on KMEL had Sydeways by E-40, Too Hard for the Radio, Garcia vegas, and some other shit. I know it was classic shit, but it was a start.
We had a bitch of a Music Director for a while in 2001 who only wanted R&B. when they finally got rid of her, Von was named music director, jazzy Jim was Asst. program director. Thats when we started openin the doors for more newer bay music.

e-40 dropped Automatic in 2002, and it was all over the air. B-Legit had "whatchu talkin" and So International. Quinn had Give it Up (wit the fake beyonce..lol). We MADE the Grindin rmx in the KMEL production studio. we MADE the WHO YOU WIT Lil Jon / Quinn / Easki record in the KMEL production studios. Sure, we had to play a large cross section of other music, becuase believe it or NOT, not everyone in the bay loves only bay music. Lotta girls like R&B. Lotta guys were into Jay-Z & 50 cent for a while.

keak dropped White T's in 2003, and I was first to throw that on air. You know the rest on that record. huge hit. 2003. then came Hyphy, the federation, which started to pop, but slowed down. then came the Hyphy Rmx, which i remixed myself adding the parts where the beats change etc. Shit blew up. The response started gettin bigger for each record. Now the bosses were startin to see that there was a movement behind these records.

it was also at that time that a couple of radio-investors decided they could make a quick buck by startin a new station, then selling it off fast, which is exactly what happened to 92.7. The owners were never in it for the love of the bay, never in it to play bay music. They were in it to sell the station within a year, and make a profit. and thats exactly what happened. and, on the real, what bay music did 92.7 play that we werent playing? I mean, before he left KMEL, erock STOLE our whole bay catalog to bring over there. wit the exception of that dude Kalasole or whatever the fuck, they didnt play nothin we didnt play. they went down in 6 months, just as predicted. our ratings never even dipped, and in fact, went up during that time. these are facts.

from there, the movement got stronger, and the music got stronger. so many strong records comin out of the bay.

as for mac dre only gettin play after he died. thas bullshit. as a fan of MD, who met and spoke with the man, ill tell you thas bull. His fame was WAAAAY overdue, i will say that tho. I checked the BDS on Thizzle Dance, Get Stupid, and Feeling Myself. All three were gettin spins way before he passed. But i will say that the turning point to him gettin MAJOR play wasnt his death, but rather, the party that Chuck (Done Deal) threw at Mission Rock and MD performed. It was like watchin jesus the way the people worshipped him. Thas when we realized he needed to get a lot more play. yeah, we mighta been late. I always listened to his music. I was always a fan. But i never were sure the "radio" listeners would be into it. if i wasnt, how could i have gone on the air Novemeber 1st, 2004 and deliever an hour-long tribute mix just hours after hearing of him pass. Makin that mix was a fuckin sad experience. so dont tell me I didnt give him respect until after he died. I shook his hand and talked to him str8 up. after he died, a lot of bandwagoners appeared, and a whole other station decided they would also jump on the MD bandwagon, but KMEL was showin love before he passed. I wish he was here to enjoy the success and keep makin more music.

anyways... thas the truth behind the whole thing.

 

[ScottFoxKMEL]

the only thing i wil say is i shouldve followed my gut on the mac dre music earlier. he was kinda different tho, his music was a little left-field sometimes, so i didnt think the regular radio listener would be ready for it... i was wrong.

a pioneer is someone who does something first, or changes the way people look at something. he was a true pioneer.

 

[groucho]

better late then never but they should have been doing this 5,6 years ago, but they were on ny's dick playing ja rule and dmx anything but bay. chuy always showed love to the bay with shit like westside wednsdays

 

[ALKOHOL]

YO SCOTTY...I GOT ANOTHER ONE FOR YOU...IT'S MY NEW SINGLE. MY LAST TRY WAS RICKY JAMES A BIT AGO AND YOU SAID UHH!! IT WASN'T THE ONE....SO i WENT BACK AND MADE SOME MORE SHIT...AND NOW I GOT IT...HOW DO I MAKE SURE YOU GET IT? IT'S A HOT TRACK....SORTA LIKE YOU WAS SAYING ABOUT MAC DRE....MY STYLE IS A TAD BIT DIFFERENT BUT STILL KNOCKS AND I THINK IT WOULD BE PERFECT TIMING TO SHOW THAT THE BAY HAS SOME MORE SHIT TO OFFER THE WORLD. MIXSHOW, CHOP SHOP WHATEVER YOU CAN DO FOR ME.

 

[DaSlimReaper]

^What you're saying would be valid but that doesn't make sense because ain't no body in the Bay sellin millions now either, not even 40..

 

[latinluva$]

what the fuck was hot from the bay 5 or 6 years ago? shit..i cant remember nothin from around that time..

dmx n ja rule n them cats was sellin millions and everyone was into that shit.. u cant fault em for that. if the bay was sellin millions at that time, theyd probly been playin it...

cats need to get on the grind, stop complainin about useless shit. the hyphy movement aint the only shit out here, but its our outlet to get the rest of the country to focus on the bay.

like atlanta, they had to get thru the lil jon crunk yellin bullshit before people started noticin TI or JEEZY and the real street type shit...we get the people lookin at the bay thru hyphy, then the real street cats can shine thru.

to me, San Quinn aint a hyphy rapper, and kmel show him major love..thas what im talkin bout

5 or 6 years ago bela was hot e-40 was hot yukmouth was puttin out albums too short was doin it messy the whole dam yay was making songs just cuz the radio wasnt playin none of our shit doesnt mean the bay was not making songs or albums