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DJ Funkmaster Flex battles ex over child support

His name is Flex, but he’s not bending on child support to his son with a past girlfriend.

Legendary hip-hop DJ Funkmaster Flex says in Westchester court papers that he shouldn’t have to increase payments from $4,000 a month to $5,000 to cover his 12-year-old’s private-school tuition and summer-camp fees.

Flex, whose real name is Aston Taylor Jr., makes $373,000 a year as a DJ on hip-hop radio station Hot 97 and as host of MTV’s “Funk Flex Full Throttle,” according to the documents filed on Jan. 16.

Bronx-born Flex was ordered to pay child support to ex-girlfriend Haydee Diaz for their son, Dante, in 2003, based on a salary of $245,000.

Diaz, 43, of Plainfield, NJ, filed for the increase to fund Dante’s math and language tutoring, swim team, camp and private school.

Flex, 46, complained in a written response that “expenses such as swimming is not a need” and “there is no entitlement to provide summer camp at a cost of $8,000.”

Diaz’s attorney, Suzanne Bracker, countered, “Every child deserves to be supported in the same lifestyle as his father.”

Flex and his lawyer did not return calls for comment.