Funkmaster Flex Returns To Spike With Car Show

Hot 97 deejay and car enthusiast Funkmaster Flex is coming back to the television screen this spring as his Bronx auto shop becomes the source for a new series on Spike TV.

Flex had a show titled, "Ride With Funkmaster Flex" back in 2003 but left to pursue opportunities for total control of his show at ESPN. This time around Flex has more control over his series, which is called, "Fast Machines with Funkmaster Flex."

"My first time around with Spike, I wasn't an owner. I think I had to go away and grow," Flex explained to the New York Daily News. "When you're venturing out and you're doing TV, you want to know, 'If this didn't work, I want to know I did it the best I thought I could.'"

The show has Flex displaying his customization skills not just with celebrities such as Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Danica Patrick, but with everyday folks as well.

"My other shows were very big, and gaudy--bling, bling customization," Flex said. "This is going to be more about craftsmanship, and a little more affordable. In 2009, the money is not moving around the way it was."

Also adding to the diversity of the content will be a focus on the staff, which includes interns from the local Lincoln Tech Institute. Flex said the Fast Machines, which begins on April 5, at 10:30 p.m., is not all about the whips, but brings out the whole process of the shop.

"It's not a normal customization show," Flex said. "There's going to be some good human interest and some good real-life things."