But when Hot 97 honchos saw HBO’s “Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn” — which details the 1989 shooting of 16-year-old Hawkins — they discovered that Duke, who is white, was one of ...

fans have called on Hot 97 to not only speak about Yusef Hawkins’ murder but also comment on their employee — pushing for him to make a statement. Please revisit the Hot 97/Paddy Duke ...

Duke, it turned out, was really Pasquale Raucci, who, as a teenager, was one of eight young men charged in the 1989 killing of Yusuf K. Hawkins, a Black 16-year-old, in Brooklyn. Hawkins had ...

“We've inherited something that we have to, as a team, deal with the brunt of,” Ebro Darden, co-host of Hot 97’s Ebro In The Morning, said this week after the revelation that Pasquale "Paddy Duke" was ...

Hot 97 announced Sunday that it cut ties with Pasquale Raucci, also known as Paddy Duke, amid accusations made against him contained within the HBO documentary Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn.