Following Tyrese being asked to leave mmid-interview yesterday from a Delaware radio station, his music is now completely banned. I think this is a little ridiculous. The station’s program director didn’t like Ty talking about how close the liquor stores are to schools in their community, so he’d asked him to leave and now is taking it a step further. Details below.
TMZ spoke with Tony Quartarone — the station owner at KISS 101.7 — who tells us he’s not upset with Tyrese because he took a stand against liquor stores … instead, he claims the problem was the way the singer addressed his listeners.
Quartarone says, “Tyrese was not kicked off the air for pointing out that liquor stores should not be located near schools … I totally agree with that. But … he proceeded to downgrade my audience by calling them ‘homies.'”
Quartarone says he felt the language was condescending — and that’s why he asked Tyrese to leave the building Monday morning. After Tyrese tweeted about the incident, Quartarone says he decided to ban Ty’s music until he gets an apology.
He probably won’t get one — Tyrese called in to “TMZ Live” yesterday and told us he simply didn’t care if the station takes his music out of rotation.
