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Ebro Darden Defends Hot 97 Reality Show

New York City’s iconic radio station Hot 97, known globally as the place that ”that hip-hop lives,” is entering new media territory with their new unscripted TV comedy, This Is Hot 97 .

The show premiered last Monday kicking off with Kanye West dissing Ebro saying he doesn’t do TV even though he was on TV. Go figiure.

Then, it was the mad search for talent, so Ebro asked Macklemore in, but then dissed him saying their looking for real talent.

Hmm, really?

And they say this is unscripted? Whateves ya’ll! The show was sort of funny, but came off a little forced when watching.

Anyways, the show is executive produced by the controversial queen of reality TV Mona Scott-Young (Basketball Wives,Love & Hip-Hop).

Rap fans maybe skeptical about an established brand like Hot 97 be associated with Scott-Young, however Ebro Darden, the VP of programming on Hot 97 and co-host of the station’s Morning Show, thinks those concerns are unfounded.

“[Scott-Young] has been asking me for years to do this, but I wanted to make sure it lined up with our brand,” Ebro said.

This Is Hot 97 celebrates the comedic talents of station staples like Angie Martinez, Peter Rosenburg, Miss Infoand Funkmaster Flex – personalities that have already amassed a strong following before the leap to TV.

Ebro believes if you let reality television portray you in a bad light you are complicit in the results.

“If somebody on one of these reality shows tell you that they didn’t know how things were going to be edited or whatever, they tell you specifically in the paperwork,” Ebro said. “Anytime VH1 came to us with some ideas we weren’t feeling, we’d send them back.”

Peter Rosenberg, one fourth of Hot 97?s Morning Show agreed. “Yeah you gotta get a better lawyer,” he chimed in.