would be against playing any Atlanta artists<\/a> on the station until after the series concludes. The Knicks will host the Hawks Saturday evening at Madison Square Garden for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference first-round series.<\/p>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t want to hear no Atlanta artists right now,\u201d Famuyide said on Friday, the boycott\u2019s fourth day. \u201cTime to show some New York solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The boycott means no music from T.I., whose latest single \u201cLet \u2019Em Know\u201d is not only one of the biggest hits of the year but also has been heard on multiple NBA national telecasts. No OutKast, no 21 Savage, no Lil Baby, no Jeezy.<\/p>\n
If a song by Drake features an Atlanta artist, Famuyide is fine with not playing that artist\u2019s part of the song during the series. Usher and Chris Brown recently announced a stadium tour that has music fans buzzing, but Usher is from Atlanta so only half of the bill will be heard weekday mornings until the end of the series.<\/p>\n
New York is the birthplace of hip-hop and has often been said to be biased against rap music from other regions. Madison Square Garden is considered \u201cThe Mecca\u201d of basketball by some.\u00a0Famuyide said the boycott is in fun, all in the spirit of sports and competition, not because of any anti-Atlanta feelings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people say I have a New York bias, it\u2019s an issue, but if I say you have an Atlanta bias, a down south bias, that\u2019s OK,\u201d Famuyide said. \u201cAny time we can show love and spotlight our city, especially when we need to band tougher, why not have the same pride in New York others have (in their regions)?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not bias, it\u2019s just pride.\u201d<\/p>\n
Famuyide \u2014 who is also co-host of the \u201c7PM in Brooklyn\u201d podcast with former Knicks All-Star and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Carmelo Anthony, as well as \u201cThe Ringer Wrestling Show\u201d \u2014 said it hasn\u2019t been difficult not playing Atlanta artists. But he\u2019d be fine with the series not lasting long \u2014 and the Knicks winning \u2014 so that Atlanta music returns to the morning airwaves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe play an awful lot of Mariah the Scientist, and I don\u2019t think she deserves to be caught in the crossfire,\u201d Famuyide said of the Atlanta R&B singer.<\/p>\n
Should the third-seeded Knicks prevail, they will face the winner of the series between the Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers. Boston has New Edition but doesn\u2019t have the hip-hop legacy of Philadelphia, which has produced The Roots, Freeway, Beanie Sigel, Eve and Meek Mill, among others. A potential Eastern Conference finals matchup could be against Detroit, where Eminem was raised.<\/p>\n
The trash talk has already started.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could probably go 10 years without any Boston artists,\u201d Famuyide said. \u201cI\u2019d have an easier time not hearing artists from any of those cities than I would from any artists from Atlanta.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Days before the start of the New York Knicks\u2019 playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks, one major New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,2284,677,6,191,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-713137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-hawks","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-sports-business"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116425461848564982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}