R&B singer K.Michelle released her third album, ?More Issues Than Vogue? (Atlantic Records) on Feb. 19 and the CD?s title may have been a foretelling of what was to come.
The Memphis-bred artist?whose birth name is Kimberly Michelle Pate?has a big issue now in real life because the broadcast conglomerate Radio One owned by media mogul Cathy Hughes has issued a mandate across all stations to yank her music from their playlists.
Several Radio One executives spoke to
AlwaysAList.com and confirmed that you will no longer hear any songs by K.Michelle?past, present or any artist that features her on a collaboration?due to her bailing on several Radio One promotional events while she was in the Washington, DC earlier this month.
Supposedly, K.Michelle did not want to wake up early and make the hour-long commute to Silver Spring, Maryland where the WKYS studios are based ?because she wanted to sleep,? her rep also told the Radio One team.
There was one K.Michelle fan in attendance that revealed that she had decided to skip her chemotherapy treatment that morning for a chance to meet the singer. She was devastated the booty-enhanced belter was so dismissive of her supporters.
Radio One is not the first station group to pull K.Michelle?s music we learned. New York?s Power 105.1 FM, which is an iHeart Radio station, has also pulled of the singer?s music due to her on-air spat with ?The Breakfast Club? co-host Angela Ye. A query of their station playlist through MediaBase confirms they?re not playing her either.
