 On April 1, 2001 Q98 became The New Hot 98-1.The first song was "Party Up" by DMX and continued with 10,000 songs in a row commercial free.Hot 98.1 served as 'companion' to its Adult R&B sister WJMZ-FM, who had been the R&B/Hip-Hop outlet in the region before seguing into their current direction in 2002.