-By Warner Todd Huston
Financial network CNBC was forced to apologize on December 16 for picking bumper music that blared out the N-word as a show hosted by Kelly Evans went to commercial.
The song, Fizzo Got Flow by the now disbanded rap group B2K, has lyrics that are neither safe for work, nor safe for a supposed news network! The song is filled with “niggas,” and “hoes,” and all manner of off color phrases and those wonderful phrases were right there on CNBC for everyone to, uh, enjoy.
Not long after the commercial break, host Evans was effusive with apologies for playing the song “and for any offense that it may have caused.”
One wonders when CNBC is going to launch its “Bling” show?
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Yikes! CNBC Has to Apologize for Using Bumper Music With N-Word in it!”