Whew! The Beyhive was buzzing angrily about Oklahoma station KYKC 100.1 FM declining to play Beyoncé‘s new track. The country music station often didn’t categorize ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ as a country joint and made sure to let a stan know that — twice..
Though KYKC ultimately opened their intent to play the song, it took a whole lotta ENERGY to get ’em there.
Keep reading to see what happened.
The Beyoncé stan who shared their emailed rejection and the station talked to The Shade Room about the Feb. 13 exchange.
Beyoncé Stan Shares What Oklahoma Station Said In The Emails
As addressed, Justin McGowan reached out to KYKC on Tuesday to request the country tune 1st teased in a Verizon commercial. That was a lil’ fact Justin teased in the request form.
But, shortly after providing, someone at the Oklahoma station shut down the Beyoncé request from a SCORE Broadcasting email address.
Hi — we do not play Beyoncé on KYKC as we are a country music station. Thank you.”
Not satisfied with their miscategorization of Texas Hold ‘Em, Justin followed up, highlighting Black Americans’ contribution to the genre.
“‘Texas Hold ‘Em is a brand new song and it is a country song. It is also written as country on Spotify and Apple Music. Please play this song and stop being discriminatory towards her. (By the way, Black people created country music.)”
However, the KYKC employee doubled down and gave an example as to how their rejection isn’t discriminatory. “We will make sure. If it’s appropriate to the format, we will play it. Although, we play tons of Beyoncé on our 99.3 station and lots more on our 105.5 station, so… “discriminatory” we are not. Thanks.”