Hey, what happened to Jill Scott and Mary J. Blige? They were replaced by a right-wing misinformation campaign

The Big Apple needs another conservative talk radio station like it needs another COVID variant, but that’s what some New Yorkers suddenly found themselves listening to last week when they turned on their radios looking for some quality R&B.

Instead of a little Maxwell or a dose of Alicia Keys, they were assaulted with ramblings about the unfairness of vaccine mandates and how the liberal left is responsible for everything wrong in America.

Not only did the switch at radio station 103.9 FM leave the diverse New York region with only one R&B station, but owners replaced it with a punishing platform that’s pushing misinformation about COVID treatments, guns and criminal justice at the worst possible time.

To be clear, the right-wing radicals didn’t hijack the airwaves like they attempted to take over the government last year on Jan. 6. The transition from “New York’s best mix of R&B” to conservative talk was months in the making.

It’s just that the listener is often the last to know.

“Extending our marquee talk programming into New York City is a win-win for Cumulus,” Dave Milner, president of operations for Cumulus Media, said in a statement. “The addition of the WFAS-FM signal will allow us to reach even more listeners with the well-known talk shows they expect from us.”

Let the brainwashing begin.

Radio stations change formats all the time. It was just 10 years ago that popular R&B station 98.7 KISS hung up its ruby red lipstick logo after 30 years on the air and merged with rival 107.5 WBLS, giving up its spot on the FM dial to sports network ESPN.

Fans used to hearing morning music woke up to talk shows about the Yankees’ spring training prospects and a rare Knicks winning season.

Then, as now, the switch left the city with only one R&B station. At least then, the new programming wasn’t poisoning their minds.

The conservative talk show lineup includes Dan Bongino in the late Rush Limbaugh’s coveted noon to 3 p.m. timeslot. Bongino rails against vaccine mandates and calls masks “face diapers.” The only thing Bongino hates more than vaccine mandates? Rigged elections.

“This is why I’m really hoping Donald Trump runs in 2024,” he told his audience recently. “He’s the best candidate suited to clean house. Because if we don’t clean house the republic is gone.”

He also hates the truth.

Bongino is followed by Ben Shapiro, who has a history of bigotry, extremism and misinformation. In 2017, he was forced to apologize for a Columbus Day video posted to his website that depicted Native Americans as cannibals.

Such a hate agenda only adds to the insult of switching from a format that appeals to African-Americans to one that ridicules the notion that Black lives matter.

“What I know about the power of radio is it helps formulate ideas in people,” said legendary R&B deejay Ken “Spider” Webb, who hosted morning programs for more than 20 years at WBLS and 98.7 KISS-FM. “Today’s programming has gone so far away from being able to lift people up. It has just deteriorated.”

Webb, who hosts a “Soul Town” morning program on Sirius/XM, said radio used to be about bringing together, which he used to do with gimmicks like the “color of the day,” and community basketball games.

I like sports, so I kept the preset in my car the last time we lost an R&B station in New York City.

This time, I’m going to do what I do with all hate speech and misinformation.

I’m going to tune it out.