N.O.R.E. is not done with DJ Vlad, and this time he took their growing feud straight to Hot 97.
During a September 3 call into “Mornings With Mero,” N.O.R.E. issued a public challenge to Vlad, offering to pay for a lie detector test centered on whether the VladTV founder has ever used the N-word. According to the Hot 97 interview, N.O.R.E. also challenged Vlad to temporarily remove Black and Latino personalities from his website if he refuses to take the test.
“If you can’t answer those three questions on camera, I’ll pay for the lie test,” N.O.R.E. said during the call. “Come to Miami. We’ll do this.”
The N.O.R.E. DJ Vlad feud has been building for weeks, but N.O.R.E.’s latest response shifts the argument away from their canceled interview and toward a much broader criticism of Vlad’s relationship with hip hop culture.
N.O.R.E. said his first proposed lie detector question would ask Vlad whether he has ever used the N-word in his life. His second focused on whether Vlad used the word during an earlier period of his life, while the third asked whether he has used it within the last 10 years.
N.O.R.E. made clear that these were accusations and questions, not established facts. No evidence presented during the Hot 97 call independently proved that Vlad has used the slur.
Still, N.O.R.E. argued that Vlad should be willing to address the issue directly if he believes his relationship with Black culture is being mischaracterized.
“Take everybody Black and Latino off of your website for a week and let’s see where your website stands in one day,” N.O.R.E. said.
That line became one of the strongest moments of the call because it went directly to N.O.R.E.’s central argument. He believes Vlad financially benefits from Black artists, Black entertainers, and Black controversy while operating from outside the culture he covers.
N.O.R.E. repeatedly called Vlad a “culture vulture” during the interview and argued that the media personality regularly gets into public disputes with Black entertainers while avoiding similar battles with white artists.
He specifically referenced Bubba Sparxxx, Yelawolf, and Russ while questioning why, in his view, Vlad’s most visible conflicts tend to involve Black public figures. Those comments represent N.O.R.E.’s opinion and characterization of Vlad’s public history, not an independently established pattern.
The latest blowup follows the interview dispute that brought their tension back into public view in August.
As Baller Alert previously reported, Vlad criticized N.O.R.E. during a conversation with Akademiks after claiming the “Drink Champs” host agreed to return the favor and appear on VladTV but later backed out.
“Nore is about Nore, his word don’t mean ish, he’s a snake,” Vlad said at the time.
N.O.R.E. did not deny changing his mind. Instead, he argued that agreeing to an interview did not mean he surrendered his right to later say no.
“I did to you what you did to our culture, I bent you over, and I f**ked you,” N.O.R.E. said in his earlier response. “I’m a grown man. I have the right to change my mind.”
He returned to that point during Hot 97.
“If I say yes on Monday and I say no on Wednesday, that is on me,” N.O.R.E. said. “I owe you nothing.”
The disagreement carries more weight because Vlad and N.O.R.E. once appeared to have repaired an earlier rift.
According to the official “Drink Champs” website, Vlad appeared on Episode 399 of “Drink Champs” in March 2024 and discussed his career, VladTV, Tupac Shakur, Suge Knight, and his history in hip hop media.
Their issues, however, stretch back even further. N.O.R.E. publicly asked VladTV to remove his interviews from the platform in 2020 after accusing Vlad of disrespecting hip-hop and Minister Louis Farrakhan.
N.O.R.E. revisited that history on Hot 97, saying the current dispute is connected to those longstanding concerns rather than simply a missed booking.
He also again brought up Vlad’s history with Rick Ross.
During the call, N.O.R.E. referenced Vlad suing Ross and used that case to support his larger criticism of Vlad’s role in hip hop disputes. Court reporting provides important context here. According to Courthouse News Service, Vlad filed a civil lawsuit alleging that Ross orchestrated an attack on him at the 2008 Ozone Awards after VladTV reported on Ross’ past employment as a correctional officer.
A federal jury later awarded Vlad $300,000, including compensatory and punitive damages. The case was civil, not a criminal prosecution initiated by Vlad.
N.O.R.E. also invoked footage used in criminal cases involving hip hop figures, referring to Vlad as “Detective Vlad.” That framing was his characterization during the Hot 97 call and should not be interpreted as evidence that Vlad works for law enforcement.
Despite spending more than 10 minutes unloading on Vlad, N.O.R.E. insisted he wants the conflict to end.
“I don’t have no beef with you, and I’d rather not have no beef with you,” he said. “Answer these three questions and let’s move on for hip-hop.”
For now, though, the N.O.R.E. DJ Vlad feud appears to have moved well beyond who did or did not honor an interview agreement. N.O.R.E. is now openly challenging the foundation of Vlad’s relationship with the culture that made VladTV successful, and he is daring Vlad to answer on camera.
