Fired Hot 97 Exec Claims Discrimination for Being ‘Too White’

A white radio executive working at a top New York City hip-hop station claims his bosses told him he was “too white for the job,” and that he was humiliated live on the air by Funkmaster Flex, the station’s star DJ.

That’s according to a lawsuit obtained by The Daily Beast, in which Stanley Pillman III, the former VP of digital operations at Hot 97, claims he was fired by the station after reporting Flex for allegedly accepting kickbacks from advertisers.

“Pillman’s employment was terminated in retaliation for his protected complaints or on the basis of his race,” the suit contends.

Read more at The Daily Beast.