Funkmaster Flex has Hot 97 listeners confused by his claims to be playing unreleased tracks from artists like Drake and the artist formerly known as Kanye West.
Flex announced that on Apr. 23, April. 24, and Apr. 25 at 7 p.m., 10 p.m., and 9 p.m. respectively, that he’d be playing new music from a list of artists including Kehlani, Lil Tjay, Statik Selektah, and Conway the Great.
In the list posted to his Instagram Stories, Flex wrote that he’d be playing an unreleased Drake song and an unreleased Ye song that features Ty Dolla Sign. The radio DJ even made separate posts hyping up the songs from Drake and Ye.
But listeners discovered that Flex didn't actually play any new Ye or Drake tracks. And he hasn’t posted about them either on social media, leaving listeners to wonder what in the heck Flex was actually talking about.
Check out Flex’s posts below.
Flex’s unfulfilled announcements come right after he was nominated for the 2026 Radio Hall of Fame class due to his decades-long influence on hip-hop culture.
The Museum of Broadcast Communications announced 24 nominees for its class this year. Voting begins on Apr. 24 and wraps up on May 8, with almost 1,000 industry professionals casting their ballots.
In December, Flex responded to Drake’s joy that Ebro Darden’s Hot 97 show, Ebro in the Morning, got canceled. During a broadcast of his radio show, Flex mentioned Drake posting an axe emoji when Ebro’s news dropped. [Flex himself briefly took over the morning slot as a substitute in the immediate aftermath of Ebro leaving.]
“Was Drake talking slick?” he said. “New York City, let me tell you something. I don’t care how early it is, I can be arrogant in the morning. I saw Drake give Ebro the chop sign, and Ebro kinda likes him. What do you think he’s gonna give me when he feels like it?”
“I know Drake don’t like me,” Flex added. “So Drake, listen. We saw that little slick shot you took, but I know that wasn’t just at Ebro, that was at Hot 97. ‘Cause we comment on you a lot. And we love you, baby… Matter [of] fact, no I don’t.”
Flex’s words referenced the issues that he’s had with Drake over the years, dating back to 2015 when Flex premiered a Quentin Miller reference track amidst the allegations that the Toronto rapper used ghostwriters.
