DJ SUSPENDED For Playing Busta Rhymes - "ARAB MONEY"

by **J The Kidd** Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:25 pm

Busta Rhymes' recently released single Arab Money has been
ruffling feathers so much so that a UK radio station suspended a DJ for
playing the cut.

Global Radio, which owns and operates Galaxy Radio, broadcasts
Steve "Smooth" Sutherland's show in Manchester, Yorkshire, Birmingham,
York Shire, the South Coast, the North East, and Scotland.

Sutherland, a winner of two MOBO Awards for Best DJ, played Arab Money
on his show on Saturday and was promptly suspended after the station
received a flood of complaints.

"Galaxy would like to apologize to all our listeners for the airing of
this song. It was never Galaxy's intent to offend its listeners and
never will be," the company said in a statement. "A full internal
investigation has now commenced. Galaxy would like to apologize for any
offense however unintentionally caused."

In an interview with us on Monday, Busta gave his take on the popular DJ's suspension.

"The most irrelevant thing can be justified as a reason to fire
somebody nowadays," Busta told us. "Ain't nobody safe. This recession
has f*cked the whole game up and everybody is on they eggshells when
they walk around. So I just feel like, that's really more so what it's
about than anything else and until I start to get some direct awareness
of the Arab culture having an issue, ya know, we're going to continue
to move forward with our campaign."

"I really only respect the Arab culture," Busta Rhymes continued. "I
ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little
people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab
culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really
showing all of this concern for? Is it really concern for the people or
concern for your job?"

The remix to Arab Money features Akon, Sean "Diddy" Combs, T-Pain, Ron Browz, Swizz Beatz and Lil Wayne.