OMG The Prophet , Necole Bitchie and Bossip are reporting that Mathew Knowles is paying major radio stations to boycott LeToya. I knew something was going on right there. It was so weird that Hot 97, the biggest Hip Hop and R&B radio in the country (home of Angie Martinez) would completely ignore the hit “Regret” (which is currently the #5 most played song in the country on urban radios) and act like it doesn’t exist. I am so not surprised as they never ever played her and now we know why! I know a lot of people who’ve been requesting the hell outta this song to them and they’ve been acting deaf.  This is really crazy! These guys ain’t right. I blame Mathew for doing what he’s doing but I blame them even more for accepting this money/trip or whatever.

Here is what Prophet’s source at MWE had to say:

I am just pissed off with this shady business and I’ve been closer to God lately so I feel I have to throw this out there. I’m going to give you a little more of my experience. So…. Mathew is in a perpetual fight. I don’t understand what he’s trying to prove but I guess that’s what keeps his life exciting. You think he would have moved on by now but on the contrary, he’s totally obsessed with this Letoya Luckett girl. Wasting time making sure radio stations don’t play her songs, and particularly right now making sure “Regret” doesn’t get any bigger than it already is.

I absolutely don’t understand why he thinks her success would overshadow Beyonce’s. Beyonce is aware of what’s going on but she’s not saying anything to stop her dad. I told her to say something but she said to me “I trust my dad”. Anyway, look at the Urban radio charts, Letoya is #5. That’s a pretty good number but you can notice that the most important radio stations aren’t playing it. Thanks to who? You guessed it right. Rumors you’ve probably heard before are true. Mathew is paying these stations off to boycott her. These expenses are covered up as a trip to go see Beyonce’s tour for review. What’s nice is that these stations’ music directors can pick two to three dates anywhere in the world and travel for free. Mathew of course pays for travel expenses as well as $850 “courtesy checks” for…. meals.

The funny part is some of them just get the free vacation and don’t bother showing up at Beyonce’s concert. Hot 97 was not hard to convince thanks to their ties with Jay-Z. It was a little harder to convince Power 106 and Jamn 945 (asking for bigger courtesy checks) but in the end they accepted the offer. Thumbs up go to KMEL who almost spit at my face and refused to collaborate.

I’m putting this to light because I’m tired of this payola bullshit. You might find all of this outrageous but these are common practices in the music industry… and this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Let’s  investigate this case and take a look at what’s going on…

Here in the charts, Yes Toya IS the #5 most played song in the US radios that plays hip-hop and R&B.

But some radios  just rather get freebies and $$$ rather than looking at these numbers or hell, just take their listeners’s requests.

Let’s take a look at Hot 97′s playlist (New York’s #1 Hip Hop and R&B Station, Probably THE radio with the most influence in this country): So we have …Jay-Z, Jay-Z, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Jay-Z and Jay-Z. No LeToya duh. Can anyone else get some airplay dammit? Other artists have families to feed. Spread the wealth around people, spread the wealth around! How much you need to play LeToya? We, the fans, can start raising money for you.

Let’s take a look at Power 106, #1 HipHop R&B station in Los Angeles. Cassie WTF? That Jamie flop song Digital girl? WTF! Where LeToya at?? …No LeToya. That’s the checks right there again?

Let’s go take a look at Jamn 94.5, Boston’s “#1 for Hip Hop and R&B”. Cute playlist… but NO LETOYA. I can give you double of what Mathew gave you to boycott her. That works for you?

Nothing has been officially confirmed yet but looks like we might look for a dual release with “She Ain’t Got” being the pop and rhytmic single while “Regret” will cover the Urban side. I’m guessing “Not Anymore” reached it’s peak and it’s time to move on.

It was played today by our “friends” Hot 97 New york.  Hopefully they add it to their playlist. They already have “She Ain’t Got” in their system but it is not on rotation yet. They’re waiting for feedback and requests. Y’all know what to do…

Lots of people are feeling the song and it’s spreading like wildfire. And did y’all catch that? Regret was one of the trendy topics on twitter today… for about 2 minutes. They were so many people talking about this song today that it made it there for a quick second. I hope it would’ve stayed there longer. You can still talk about what is your #regret on twitter so we can get it back there.

For those who haven’t got the chance to listen to the mastered version (radio edit) here it is… (Last time I’m whining about this: I really hope that crazy ass bridge will make it on the album. PS: I’ll probably will whine one more time if it doesn’t make it lol)

LeToya featuring Ludacris: Regret (No “annoying tags”)

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Nothing has been officially confirmed yet but looks like we might look for a dual release with “She Ain’t Got” being the pop and rhytmic single while “Regret” will cover the Urban side. I’m guessing “Not Anymore” reached it’s peak and it’s time to move on.

It was played today by our “friends” Hot 97 New york.  Hopefully they add it to their playlist. They already have “She Ain’t Got” in their system but it is not on rotation yet. They’re waiting for feedback and requests. Y’all know what to do…

Lots of people are feeling the song and it’s spreading like wildfire. And did y’all catch that? Regret was one of the trendy topics on twitter today… for about 2 minutes. They were so many people talking about this song today that it made it there for a quick second. I hope it would’ve stayed there longer. You can still talk about what is your #regret on twitter so we can get it back there.

For those who haven’t got the chance to listen to the mastered version (radio edit) here it is… (Last time I’m whining about this: I really hope that crazy ass bridge will make it on the album. PS: I’ll probably will whine one more time if it doesn’t make it lol)

LeToya featuring Ludacris: Regret (No “annoying tags”)

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I never heard of that Freaky Friday show but I personally know this radio chick but I just can’t recall from where. Anyway this interview covers the Slim Thug, BET/Beyonce rumors and some stuff about Ray J and Michael Jackson.

She did that interview when she was in New York. We still need to get her on “Hate 97″. We need EVERYONE reading this to take 30 second of their time and do the following TODAY. How about RIGHT NOW? You got time to read this right?

so contact Hot 97 and tell them they need to play LeToya’s song “She Ain’t Got” by either

1) Sending a text message to 75759 (“play letoya she ain’t got hataz!”)

2) Calling them: *67 646 744 0495 or *67 800 223-9797
- You: “yo do u got Letoya’s song “she ain’t got”
- sHot 97: “LeToya who?”
- You: “Loooser”. hang up. call again. change voice.
- You: “hey theeere! do you have Swing batta batta by I think her name is La Toya”.
- sHot 97: “LeToya Luckett??”
- You: “yeaah that’s it!”
- sHot 97: “we don’t play her songs in here. we got an agreement with Mathew Knowles”. HE hangs up. You call back. change voice again.

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