{"id":2829,"date":"2015-01-28T10:02:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2015-01-28T10:02:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:02:45","slug":"hot-97-fires-cipha-sounds-after-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/hot-97-fires-cipha-sounds-after-17-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot 97 Fires Cipha Sounds after 17 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cipha1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2835\" alt=\"cipha1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cipha1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cipha1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cipha1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The news of HOT 97 firing long time radio host and DJ Cipha Sounds are leaving some with a bad taste in their mouths.<\/p>\n<p>The firing happened less then a day after he criticized HOT 97 management on his podcast show Juan Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Cipha Sounds, who had been with WQHT (97.1 FM) for 17 years, began hosting the 3-7 p.m. slot soon after Angie Martinez jumped to rival WWPR (105.1 FM) last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The station announced last week it has hired Nessa Nitty of MTV as the permanent afternoon host, while Cipha would remain in other unspecified positions.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s popular \u201cJuan Epstein\u201d podcast, talking with Hot-97 morning cohost Peter Rosenberg, Cipha said he was blindsided by his removal and wished he had been considered for the permanent position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur corporate bosses don\u2019t know me,\u201d he said, adding that he didn\u2019t know if he would remain with the station.<\/p>\n<p>Early Tuesday afternoon, WQHT answered that question, issuing a blunt statement that said, \u201cEffective immediately, Cipha Sounds is no longer with WQHT.\u00a0 We wish him well on his future endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cipha\u2019s departure leaves evening host Funkmaster Flex as the primary link to the station\u2019s groundbreaking past.<\/p>\n<p>Peep the Juan Epstein podcast episode below that got Cipha Sounds fired. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/187937166&amp;color=00aabb&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The news of HOT 97 firing long time radio host and DJ Cipha Sounds are leaving some with a bad taste in&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2152,400,7],"tags":[2155,592,1335,2153,1031,35,1340],"views":1284,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}