From our folks over at Word On The Street Magazine (Source):

Peace, You know what? I had stated earlier that I didn’t have a comment about the Ozone Magazine awards but I kept getting phone calls and emails from people down in Houston reporting about how unhappy they were that the Houston rappers were not represented in their own home city. Among other complaints of the event being unorganised and malfunctions and all kinds of craziness.Some media outlets decided to take the low road and not be real journalist. I’m going to tell yall something you got me fucked up if you think that I’m going to compromise myself and report bullshit to the people especially our youth.

Now you can call me a Hater but I’m just a realist and real journalist report real shit. Just to let yall know I reached out to Julia and she got defensive. Making statements that I only want to focus on the negative and that I didn’t want to write out a balanced article. I think that would defeat the purpose of writing you a email to get your statement. HmmJulia I remember a time a day when you was critiquing awards shows and calling people out in your magazine. Or did you forget about that? You don’t see the VMA’s or the BET awards show taking it personal when journalist are there and they critique their shows.

See that’s the difference between the real shit and the bullshit. Julia you can’t be in this game and not be subject to criticism when you do an event on the scale that you and TJ have done it on for past 3 years and each time the event get’s worse. When a real journalist critiques your shit it’s to help you make improvements. So you can get to the level of a VMA’s. But if you have everybody trying to be your damn friend and everybody being a yes man to your shit then the joke is on you. I’m not trying to be your friend that’s why the game is fucked up now.’m not Real always recognizes real. So now I have a real question to ask the music industry.

What role does Ozone Magazine play in the Hip-Hop Community?

I was sitting up here listening to the interviews with Trae The Truth and Mike Jones and I’m going to say this is some of the most ignorant shit I have ever heard in my life. Non of this shit makes any sense to me. What really does not make any sense is the fact that no one seems to take in to consideration that the magazine does not have any respect for the black community, the culture of hip-hop or any of the rappers. When was the last time you heard of Ozone Magazine doing something for the community? Let me know, and we complain about the owner who I don’t expect to have any kind of relation or any understanding what’s so ever about us as a people. Nor should she have to. We make it very easy for her to do the things she does because we will bitch and complain and then turn around and keep spending money with her.

Why do you silly ass industry people keep running back to support the event as if that is all there is? Mean while she is sitting in her hotel room counting up the loot she done made off your dumb asses for a half ass show. That’s what you paid your money for? Did you pay for all the bullshit that comes with this event? Is this the standard that we have grown accustomed to? But I’m a hater if I come out and speak the real truth. And what the fuck is a hater? Who the hell came up with that damn wack ass word anyway? You know it has just really dawned on me that people use the word hater because they don’t want to deal with what’s real. Plain and simple there is more bullshit out here then there is authentic shit.

Did the magazine give credence to the south as far as exposing artist? Yes. I don’t take that away I actually congratulate Julia for doing that when the source and XXL Mag didn’t. Matter of fact I would like to thank the two biggest hip-hop publications in the game for being stupid and over looking the south the way that you did. I would like to thank the former founders of the source for letting their ego’s get the best of them to the point to where they destroyed the biggest hip-hop magazine in the world. You guys went from being the credible hip-hop bible to gossiping ass hip-hop weekly? Huh?? What’s wrong with this picture?
I would like to thank XXL MAG for being G-unit crazy when there were plenty of artist out here that could have embraced your covers. The void that you guys have left open in the hip-hop community has let any and everybody in to the fold. Nobody has any standards and gossiping blogger’s are the new journalist. The voice of hip-hop now is a big fucking joke just like the damn A&R’s who sign wack ass artist and put out wack ass records. Thanks to you guys for being money crazy and ego driven. I didn’t go to the Ozone awards because it’s the same shit every year and I just require a certain standard of award show if I’m going to spend my money. I expect the event to be organized and well planned out. Instead it is turning out to be the industry freaknik. Ghetto ass fights breaking out every where and now Julia has something to talk about in her magazine again. I would like to thank the real journalist out here for keeping it 100 and realizing that being a artist friend is not the business that you are in, but reporting the truth is. Don’t compromise yourself or your integrity for the sake of a false relationship. Our youth believes all this bullshit and that’s where my main concern is. It’s disappointing to see some of you other hip-hop websites that decided to down play the truth you can’t break the cycle if you can’t stand on the truth and so we continue on with the bullshit.

Events like these make it bad for everybody else who is trying to do something on that level legit whether or not you guys are aware. It not only affects you but it also affects others when your shit ain’t straight and people don’t know how to act.
Well here’s more ratings to our ignorance. And one more thing. How do you mess up a Pimp C Tribute? If I’m coming to your city to do an awards show I’m going to make sure that we have the right security, make sure things are organized and well thought out and make sure the major artist of that city is well represented. I can cay this because this is the third one. When are you going to get it together people and wake up? We are responsible for our own actions and everybody that acted like a damn fool should be ashamed of yourselves for making it so damn easy for people to continue to exploit our ignorance.

I will say this and I want to make it clear there is no personal issue with JB she is doing exactly what she should be doing making money off our ignorant asses. Who knows maybe what’s really going on here is the magazine does not show enough respect to the hip-hop community and so we just don’t show the event enough respect. So since there seems to be so much negativity around this event and the magazine can somebody please tell me what role does Ozone Magazine play in the hip-hop community?