FIRED -Damn so Paddy Duke from Hot 97 is really Pasquale Raucci dude who help kill Yusuf Hawkins

[hex]

Wtf 4 percent in 99???

Did you live a trailer park?

No funny shyt. Askjeeves was poppin in 1999. I am east coast born and raised and we all was using internet in school. I will say not everyone owned comps, but by 99 we all had access to the web. I was surfing SOHH battling nikkas with type key

Even free libraries in the hood had the web.

This is why anecdotal evidence is meaningless.

Number of Internet Users (2016) - Internet Live Stats
Internet Growth Statistics 1995 to 2019 - the Global Village Online

You using the internet and/or everyone you know having access to it on the east coast literally means nothing. Cats talking about the mid 90's....only 0.4% of the world had the internet then. 2000? Only around 6%.

Libraries had internet access but most cats were not posted up in the library all day surfing the 'net. Not in no god damn 1998 or whatever cats are talking about. You'd have to be a next level nerd to do some shyt like that. And nobody I knew in '99 knew what the fukk "battling" on the internet meant. The people into battling were doing it in person.

Like I said the only reason I had a web browser in '99 was because of the Dreamcast. And even then, that was unheard of.

Fred.

 

[Frida Giezman]

By the time nastradamus came out (99?) my moms had bought a computer and we had aol dial up

and we was kinda late on getting a computer/internet

I remember it being around the time nastradamus came out because I remember downloading songs from that album off Napster

 

[Frida Giezman]

I had a Dreamcast too

Remember nfl 2k?

they need to bring that game back

remember the dream cast controllers where you could see your play on the little screen in the controller lol? Fire.

 

[hex]

By the time nastradamus came out (99?) my moms had bought a computer and we had aol dial up

and we was kinda late on getting a computer/internet

I remember it being around the time nastradamus came out because I remember downloading songs from that album off Napster

I dunno where you cats are from or what kind of jobs your parents had but most people did not own a PC in 1999.

Computer ownership up sharply in the 1990s : The Economics Daily : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

36% of white people had a PC. 18% of black people. In '99.

I mean....you can pull up the internet stats and see the numbers were low as fukk for internet traffic back then. PC ownership wasn't common, either.

Fred.

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

I'm in the minority but I had internet service in my crib through Prodigy dial-up back in '93. And I had an X-band modem for my Sega Genesis that allowed you to play video games against other people, email, and browse a limited portion of the net back in '96 through your Sega or SNES. There was a whole online hip-hop community battling and reviewing/trading albums all through your Genesis console.

But the larger point still stands. People weren't digging for info on each other online back then because there was nothing to find. But I dont believe for a second Ebro, Angie, and the notable names didn't know about this piece of shyt.

 

[SNYC]

They knew

At the time the program director was Tracy Cloherty an alumna from Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn

Still salty Emmis didn't give me an interview, only WBLS

 

[AnonymityX1000]

They knew

At the time the program director was Tracy Cloherty an alumna from Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn

Still salty Emmis didn't give me an interview, only WBLS

Say you interviewed got a job and unofficially on the gossip tip heard about Patty Duke and what he was involved in. What would you do?

 

[concise]

I dunno where you cats are from or what kind of jobs your parents had but most people did not own a PC in 1999.

Computer ownership up sharply in the 1990s : The Economics Daily : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

36% of white people had a PC. 18% of black people. In '99.

I mean....you can pull up the internet stats and see the numbers were low as fukk for internet traffic back then. PC ownership wasn't common, either.

Fred.

These people talking about using the internet in school or in the library, places where you were on a strict time limit and most likely using it for school.

Internet searches pre 2000 were also trash.

 

[Frida Giezman]

I'm in the minority but I had internet service in my crib through Prodigy dial-up back in '93. And I had an X-band modem for my Sega Genesis that allowed you to play video games against other people, email, and browse a limited portion of the net back in '96 through your Sega or SNES. There was a whole online hip-hop community battling and reviewing/trading albums all through your Genesis console.

But the larger point still stands. People weren't digging for info on each other online back then because there was nothing to find. But I dont believe for a second Ebro, Angie, and the notable names didn't know about this piece of shyt.

Ebro admitted he knew lol

but they’re all acting like they were shocked when they saw the documentary

Ebro said paddy told him ten years ago that he got “swept up” in the yusef hawkins case

then ebro goes “but I didn’t know he had a misdemeanor and his record was expunged”

so a white dude u work with tells u some crazy shyt like this and u don’t ask any follow up questions??

by the way having a conviction expunged is different then having an arrest record sealed so I’m wondering which one it actually was

because paddy might have gotten arrested and given an ACD (adjournment in contemplation of dismissal) which is basically where they adjourn your case and if you stay out of trouble for six months to a year they will dismiss your case and the record of your arrest gets sealed

I say that to say even if paddy had no actual involvement in Hawkins murder he would be stupid not to accept an acd

and I say that to say does anyone actually know the level of paddy’s involvement in the murder?

and how many people actually went to prison behind the murder?

I’m not familiar with the case

Edit: and you blew my mind with the online gaming back in 96.....I don’t even think I knew what internet was back then

and wasn’t PlayStation out by this time

damn I remember when PlayStation first came out.....they had that xgames type game I forgot what it was called but that shyt was fire

 

[Frida Giezman]

I dunno where you cats are from or what kind of jobs your parents had but most people did not own a PC in 1999.

Computer ownership up sharply in the 1990s : The Economics Daily : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

36% of white people had a PC. 18% of black people. In '99.

I mean....you can pull up the internet stats and see the numbers were low as fukk for internet traffic back then. PC ownership wasn't common, either.

Fred.

NYC

mom dukes was a single mom but doing “ok” by this time

working for a law firm and living in a decent neighborhood but living paycheck to paycheck

 

[hex]

These people talking about using the internet in school or in the library, places where you were on a strict time limit and most likely using it for school.

Internet searches pre 2000 were also trash.

I graduated in 1995 and none of the schools I went to (Central, Westport and Paseo) had internet access. But these were some of the worst schools in the entire state.

Late 90's we'd occasionally hit up the library to use the 'net but it was extremely rare and like you said, on limited time. I think it was like 30 minutes.

NYC

mom dukes was a single mom but doing “ok” by this time

working for a law firm and living in a decent neighborhood but living paycheck to paycheck

Well yeah if she had a job like that then it's expected you'd own a computer. But I'm sure you realize that wasn't common in that time frame.

Fred.

 

[SNYC]

Say you interviewed got a job and unofficially on the gossip tip heard about Patty Duke and what he was involved in. What would you do?

I thought about this and to be honest with you...i don't even know.

It was an unpaid internship position, so i would definitely be powerless. Add in the fact other staff probably wouldn't even give me the heads up. His name doesn't ring bells, i do remember Fama the main person

What makes it even fukked up, since i wanted to be in production, he could've been my supervisor



*Edit*

I guess it's no different than the people i know/knew that worked for WPIX & you had Mike Sheehan (NYPD Det, Central Park Jogger) on staff

 

[concise]

NYC

mom dukes was a single mom but doing “ok” by this time

working for a law firm and living in a decent neighborhood but living paycheck to paycheck

Paycheck to paycheck for a lawyer's family is still a completely different lifestyle from paycheck to paycheck for some other family at or just hovering over minimum wage.

 

[Frida Giezman]

Paycheck to paycheck for a lawyer's family is still a completely different lifestyle from paycheck to paycheck for some other family at or just hovering over minimum wage.

Lol you don’t have to be a lawyer to work at a law firm Einstein

my mom never even graduated from high school (she lied on her resumes obviously)

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I thought about this and to be honest with you...i don't even know.

It was an unpaid internship position, so i would definitely be powerless. Add in the fact other staff probably wouldn't even give me the heads up. His name doesn't ring bells, i do remember Fama the main person

What makes it even fukked up, since i wanted to be in production, he could've been my supervisor



*Edit*

I guess it's no different than the people i know/knew that worked for WPIX & you had Mike Sheehan (NYPD Det, Central Park Jogger) on staff

Thanks for your honesty. I think it is unfortunate he worked in a place that is so aligned with Black culture and something I personally have a lot of love for. But my blame starts and ends with the people who hired him. I think it is unseemly how much Angie embraced him but for the rest of the on air staff I don't know what people are expecting. This is their career and getting in the door @ a place like Hot 97 is difficult. Competition is fukking high, so the expectation that a on air personality is going to risk their position to get someone fired is unrealistic even if they did know. If someone did lay it on the line to do that much respect but I can't act sooo upset they did nothing. People had a lot to lose.