The war of words between singer Dionne Warwick saying radio stations should pay the musical artists and Radio One founder Cathy Hughes is escalating. Warwick recently wrote an editorial, calling Hughes' Radio One “one of those Wall Street rip off firms where executives pay themselves big bonuses while they rip us off and throw their workers in the street.” While Hughes, speaking to N'Digo writer Zondra Hughes, says “Dionne hasn’t had a record in thirty years” but also says “I ain’t mad at her.” Instead Cathy Hughes says the record industry, through SoundExchange and MusicFirst, has “already spent about $28 million to get this legislation passed.” She says Warwick is “on the payroll”, and that she and others should be considered “professional lobbyists on this issue.” Read that and other quotes in the Huffington Post item from Zondra Hughes, here. The Radio One founder claims her company will have to pay $1 million monthly if the Performance Rights Act becomes law, which could equate to radio job losses and format changes. She admits Radio One won’t go out of business, but other smaller minority broadcasting companies might.