Funk Flex Promises To “Hurt All Feelings” Following Pete Rock Roasting

Funkmaster Flex lit up social media with a blistering warning aimed at his critics and Pete Rock ahead of his new time slot on Hot 97, declaring he’ll “hurt all feelings” during his Monday (September 1) show at 7 p.m. ET.

The longtime Hot 97 personality, known for his unfiltered commentary and bomb-dropping sound effects, didn’t hold back in a post directed at Pete Rock and others in the Hip-Hop community who’ve taken jabs at him.

“HEY… I GUESS IN THIS NEW ‘PODCAST RAPPER / DJ / SINGER ERA OF LATE THERES ALOT OF ‘SLICK TALK’ …. PETE I LOVE U AND I AINT GONNA ‘DESTROY’ YOU! @realpeterock ,” Funk Flex wrote. “PLEASE VETERAN ‘RAPPER / DJ / SINGER PODCAST’ I AM NOT TO BE PLAYED WITH.

“I DONT CARE IF YOU SOLD 5,000 OR 50 MILLION! I WILL HURT U BAD IN THIS SOCIAL SPACE! CAREFUL OF YOUR TONE WHEN MY NAME IS MENTIONED ON YOUR PODCAST… YALL ARE SENSITIVE ARTIST TRYING TO RE-WRITE HISTORY…. I WILL EMBARRASS YALL! I PLAY FOR KEEPS! I HAVE NO SKELETONS AND I GO AT YOU FOREVER! IM WAR TESTED. MONDAY! 7PM! I WILL HURT ALL FEELINGS!”

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The post came amid Funk Flex’s transition to a new time slot at the New York radio station, a move that’s stirred controversy after DJ Enuff was reportedly fired following 27 years on air.

Following Funk Flex’s news, Pete Rock didn’t stay quiet. He fired off a sharp critique of Flex’s on-air style and sound.

“No more loud talking with that annoying ass voice,” he wrote. “No more sloppy cuts and bad mixing and repetitive trash songs he threw bombs on. I say this is the best news I ever heard in my life hahahahahaha. DJ Scratch is and was always the best DJ on NY radio. He’s a real DJ.”

The tension between the two Hip-Hop veterans has been ongoing, as Funk Flex continues to position himself as a battle-tested voice unwilling to be sidelined. It erupted over accusations that Flex does not support “real Hip-Hop” artists on his radio platform, a dispute that quickly escalated on social media and live radio.

“You don’t play real artists no more,” Rock once stated. “You judge mafuas and make fun of that fact you control what you want when you on air” and called Flex “a Black dude treating other Black, talented people like they [are] beneath you…That’s sucka DJ behavior.”

Rock accused Flex of ignoring New York legends like Wu-Tang Clan and Griselda and “playing wack s###” in his own city to his own people, telling him, “Always been a funny-style dude from day one only to front on nias later and run that mouth of yours.”

Funkmaster Flex responded on his Hot 97 show, praising Pete Rock’s production talent but calling him “a fraud” and “a buffoon,” saying, “You didn’t write those verses. Grand Puba wrote all your verses on your album and C.L. Smooth wrote yours on ‘Down With The King.’ That also makes you a fraud, my friend.”

Flex also made allegations about Pete Rock suing Nas and Eddie F, and accused him of “snitching” on his longtime collaborator C.L. Smooth.

“This guy also went to the precinct on C.L. Smooth,” he said. “He went to the precinct, filled out a report and cooperated. What type of guy is that?…You have none [integrity]. You have zero. Don’t you ever, you hear me, bozo?”

Funk Flex’s new time slot on Hot 97 begins Monday (September 1) at 7 p.m.