Inspectah Deck on Hot 97 Blackballing Wu-Tang for a Decade 

Deck had told a clear case of when keeping it real goes wrong.

One of my all time favorite hip hop verses: "I leave scientists mentally scared. tripple extra large, wild like rockstars that smash guitars. Poison bars from the gods, bust holes in your mirage, and catch a charge shake’em down like the riot squad. Invade your zone, ruin like ancient Rome. I span the universe and return to earth to claim my thrown."

now we know who killed new York hip hop. hot 97!

I would love to see Dj Premiere and Pete Rock produce a Deck album!!!!!!!

Deck always had the most bomb opening verses.

Wu Tang didn't need collabs when there's 9 members.

Hot 97 doesn't have the power to blackball anyone now...they had egos over there for a while because back then, if Hot 97 co-signed your shit, the rest of the nation would follow.

Hot 97 still isn't that important.

They liked Method Man? More like Angie liked Method Man

I saw Wu with Rage in the Summer of 1997 in Charlotte NC at the outside Pavilion . It was the dopest concert ever. There was a large space of grass for the people who paid a higher price for front row. When Wu came on the space wasn't yet full so RZA got on the mic about mid way through their set and said "Fck this everyone come down to the stage" . It was about 10-15 thousand people that were hyped up and we broke through security and rushed the stage and it was craziest thing I've ever experienced. Later that night on the way home the news reported that WuTang almost started a riot. It was completely exaggerated. It was nothing but love full of every race and gender in the audience. I'll never forget that concert for as long as I live.

deck that dude tho, man mad underated, uncontrolled substance is classic. ill ryhmes and beats, back when albums were anticipated, and jordans dropped once a year, source magazine was the social media, and niggas actually had to be lyrically nice to get a deal ya dig

They should have stayed on tour and made their money. You live and you learn.

Look at what hot97 plays now😏😏😏 Fuq hot97🤣🤣🤣

Lyrically perform armed robbery...flee with the lottery...possibly they spotted me..

Inspector Decks verse on triumph was my introduction to rap. I feel terrible for young dudes that can’t understand how it felt to hear that shit for the first time!

WOW Rage Against the Machine & Wu-Tang on tour I would have loved to see that Concert !!!!

I guess that explains why many of the artist that do interviews look forced compared to the breakfast club, & why Ebro be talkin so reckless to them. If they'll blackball WuTang imagine what they'd do to these new artists. Fuck Hot97!

This guy has some of the best openings in rap history. Salute King

Now the fans need to blackball Hot 97.

I seen Wu & Rage in NY on that early rock the bells concert shit. PE was there, Nas,Eric b n Rakim, whole list... idk bout that Europe shit but I seen Rage in Wu at once in NY so I’m grateful for that.

I'm so glad the Wu didn't collab with those artists that he mentioned. Although the Nas/Prodigy/Raekwon collab was classic.... Oh well though.

The ghostface part was funny to me yo😂😂

Killa Bee still sold 50 Gold, 60 platinum. Fuck Cold '97. Lol!

Where's Hot 97 Now? Wu Tang is still here!

"We beat up people who were writing us checks". Ha

One of the underrated Wu members. And thanks for the Internet so we don't need payola stations to hear good music!

One Thing About Starks, He Gon Speak His Mind. 👐🏾

You know Ebro had a hand in on the boyz getting block.... The old man was program director at the time.

That Rage/Wu tour would have been amazing

Fav Deck tune and still reload to this day... THE CITY...

Wu-Tang and Rage Against the Machine raised me this is crazy here in that they went on tour with each other its like gods collaborating. bring rage back.. Wu Tang Zach de la Rocha 4 life

[O.D.B voice] _"Wu-Tang is for the kids!"_

He kinda told this story like Rick James on Chapelles show

Wow. You learn something new everyday.

"I never got deep into the Wu Tang Thing" ?? THING???? 😠😒✋

The WU and RATM?! What a concert THAT musta been!!

Ohhhhhh. Explains a lot. Those behind the scenes industry stories are priceless. INS wasn't gonna speak on Starks at first, then said to himself "uck it" (full disclosure)

Rebel INS one of the greatest ever

Yeah Hot 97 just black balled us cause we didn't show............ Ghost said Fuck Angie and Hot 97 so they black balled us very reminiscent of Rick James grinding his feet into Eddie Murphy's couch lol

Finally they are talking about shit I have always asked myself. Why no collabs?! Tribe and Wu were my favorite always wondered that shit.

Ghost probably had to get that off his chest. I wouldn't even be mad at him.

The Wu ain't really need to do collabs with the Jay-Z's or other flavors of the month that disappeared in their era, it would have seemed forced. Mobb Deep, Redman, Nas, Boot Camp Clik those collabs were natural.

above the clouds!

Lmao at "stigmata"... Stigma Deck, Stigma!

Wu tang and RATM is a sick ass concert

Giving up Rage against the Machine, for Summer Jam? Take a huge fucking L.

Now they see how southern artist felt When they didn't play our music up north

Wow! This is one of the realest interviews ever. Thanks Vlad!

Inspectah deck I appreciate his honesty and openness

this guy is a legend. big up Inspectah

In all honesty as a fan of Wu Tang and a ear for their music I honestly dont think they should have features on their music other than Redman Nas Busta and a few Wu affiliates it just takes that Wu sound out of its element

So...we gonna act like inspectah didn't just lie and change his story mid-interview?

Deck Album Hot!!!

People need to listen Deck's opening verse on "For Heaven's sake".it's superior to Triumph. I love Deck's triumph verse, but the opening bars everyone seems so impressed with are pretty easy to come up with. In high school in drama class we were reading this sophocles and since we weren't paying attention in the back we were freestyling and when they threw me "sophocles" to rhyme the first words that came out in my rhymes were socrates and philosophies and apostrophes. And we sucked we never freestyled we were just bored.

I remember going to Austin and went to see Wu and rage and Wu didn’t show up and the roots rocked in there place .It was still dope

damn, thats depressing. id be so mad at ghost face

Poisonous paragraph smash your phonograph in half it be the inspectah deck on the war path.

If it was made public Hot 97 had blackballed playing the Wu, NYC would've blackballed Hot 97! Hot 97 run by Jews they aint want the original Gods shining! It had nothing to do with an onstage rant.

Hot 97 isn't paying you. I would have said the same thing. I can't remember but were any of them on a funkmaster flex mix tape?

Glad Gay Z didn't come on a Wu album. Silver shining.

Now all I can think about is all the Wu tang collabs that coulda been 😓

Damn so WuTang had like a 5yr run

I remember the interview with Star and Buckwild show and Wu Tang. and the Wu gave a very subdued almost shadey interview. that was around the time Iron Flag came out.. Raekwon, when Immobilarity came out, also had an interview with Star during that time. You could feel the tension .

Method man had the most collabs.

Damn. And it's funny that Hot 97 now wants to reminisce about Ghost and Rae's music when covering their verzuz. BTW Deck = best rapper without a classic solo album.

Youth is wasted on the young, as they say. I love his perspective.

He was my favorite from the WU

Ghost face always calls it like he sees it

Cherchez La Ghost got AirPlay on Hot97.....Back Like That Got AirPlay.....

This is the Realiest Wu Memeber along with GZA!!! Fuck Radio...........

Da rebel ins . most underrated wu member besides da gza/ genius🔥🔥🔥🔥🏆

I remember, it was 1997. But he forgot to mention that they also got on stage and talked about where hiphop was going in terms of the commericialized sound of the Bad Boy etc. Im paraphrasing here so dont quote me directly.

i would like to see this rage against the machine and wu tang tour

I'm a fan of Deck but when was this 10-12 yr period? Bc I've heard both Ghost and Meth played on that station. So did he mean Wu Tang as a whole or Wu Tang members?

But the collabs that the wu does have are gold.

I hate to say it...but that was bad business. Two L's. Still Wu Tang Forever.

@ 0:43 ... I was at the Club "MUSE" back in 1993 when WUTANG CLAN was there DEEP !!!!!!,,,,,,, I was 21 years old in 1993 on that night

Damn if Deck & Trae Tha Truth long lost brothaz lol

The thing is is that its either international fame with a legendary Rock group or NY radio play. I dont blame them

He looks like Andray Blatche lol

They're huge legends without Hot 97. Did they actually need them?

Instectah looks so fukn chill ahah

Listening to the old songs is just not the same like it was 25 yrs ago..or any other songs for that matter

not to mention all the other worthy groups and artists this station has ignored for a lifetime now.

Vlad was so deep into hip hop yet he didn’t know Pac had died in 1996.

good to see that hes willing to admit that the way they operated back in the day was stupid

I don’t know what type of song Jay Z can make with the wu lol

Vlad don't really know shit about hiphop

I was at that Wu Tang Rage show at Giant stadium...still have the stub...Fuck 97

Wu Tang forever ✌🏼️

Made them even more of a legend

One nut out the clan, get ya whole click banned from radio. - the genius

Deck always was my favorite Wu member

only muthafucka who i seen go at ANY of them was 50. No one else ever dissed on record....i think.. That Rage shit was blazin. I was there. Rage was late so wu did like ALL they joints

Big Up G Deini

Everybody likes method man lol

Collaborations???? ....Wu-Tang doesn't need collabs... they have such a diversity of artists within their group to where they really don't have the need to do that. Plus.. most artists weren't lyrically at the level to contend with them.

I really like how he gives the details or "being real" sabotaged their finances. Ghetto street realness has no place in business but in entertainment and street life only.

Their Manager should've handled this better. There is no way you can be in two places at the same time. Also it was known that Wu was on tour. Hot 97.7 could've had this group next year considering they have a Summer Jam every year.

Long Live Wu Tang Clan (members)