Nod to The Legend · On the air · 1990s–
Funkmaster Flex
Hot 97, New York
Flex helped make Hot 97 the center of hip-hop radio in the 1990s, premiering records with his famous bomb drops. A Flex premiere could launch a career.
Still heard: Radio premieres, drops and DJ tags in hip-hop.
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