Whew! The Beyhive was buzzing angrily about Oklahoma station KYKC 100.1 FM refusing to play Beyoncé‘s new observe. The nation music station apparently didn’t categorize ‘Texas Maintain ‘Em’ as a rustic joint and made certain to let a stan know that — twice.

Although KYKC in the end revealed their intent to play the track, it took an entire lotta ENERGY to get ’em there. Hold scrolling to see what occurred. The Beyoncé stan who shared their emailed rejection and the station spoke to The Shade Room in regards to the Feb. 13 alternate.

Beyoncé Stan Shares What Oklahoma Station Mentioned In The Emails

As talked about, Justin McGowan reached out to KYKC on Tuesday to request the nation tune first teased in a Verizon industrial. That was a lil’ reality Justin teased within the request type.

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Nonetheless, shortly after submitting, somebody on the Oklahoma station shut down the Beyoncé request from a SCORE Broadcasting electronic mail deal with.

“Hello — we don’t play Beyoncé on KYKC as we’re a rustic music station. Thanks.” 

Not glad with their miscategorization of Texas Maintain ‘Em, Justin adopted up, highlighting Black People’ contribution to the style.

“‘Texas Maintain ‘Em is a brand new track and it’s a nation track. It is usually labeled as nation on Spotify and Apple Music. Please play this track and cease being discriminatory in direction of her. (By the way in which, Black individuals created nation music.)”

Nonetheless, the KYKC worker doubled down and gave an instance as to how their rejection isn’t discriminatory.

“We are going to test it out. If it’s applicable to the format, we are going to play it. In the meantime, we play tons of Beyoncé on our 99.3 station and much extra on our 105.5 station, so… “discriminatory” we aren’t. Thanks.” 

See the e-mail alternate screenshots beneath.

KYKC Explains Their Preliminary Response To The Beyoncé Request

When The Shade Room contacted the Oklahoma station, they labeled their preliminary response to the Beyoncé request as a “generic reply.” Nonetheless, of their unique reply, KCYC admitted they might’ve “been extra detailed.”

“If somebody emailed our nation station and requested a Rolling Stones track, we might have most likely replied the identical. Beyoncé is understood for NOT being a rustic artist, so we simply replied to that impact.”

The assertion continued:

“However…we are literally excited that she has ‘crossed over’ to a brand new style and we are going to watch it intently to see if larger stations begin taking part in it and to observe it on the chart. We do play the track on our High 40 station, KXFC, however haven’t added it but to our nation station. We’re large Beyoncé followers right here and actually hope it does properly, as we like seeing new artists get into the format.”

Swipe beneath to see the assertion.

Shortly after giving The Shade Room their unique assertion, KYKC took to their X (previously Twitter) for the primary time since Might 2020. Their tune appeared to have modified.

They shared a photograph of their playlist and ‘Texas Maintain ‘Em’ was scheduled to play at 2:28:35 PM native time.

“A lot of name coming in for Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Maintain ‘Em.’ It’s arising in minutes.” 

A lot of name coming in for Beyoncé’s Texas Maintain ‘Em. It’s arising in minutes pic.twitter.com/w9hZ24w4aw

— 100.1 KYKC (@1001KYKC) February 13, 2024

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The Shade Room Social Media Editor Brianne contributed to this unique report.