Current State of Freestyle

[skoza]

Here we go again with the Freestyle artist bashing

In my opinion, People just don't get it. Put yourselves in there shoes, critics! Freestyle basically went belly up in the middle of the 90's. When did FOREVER come out, 2001. So to say TKA was the icing on the cake for Freestyle is an ignorant statement.

Maybe TKA thought they can make better money going into the hiphop seen! Did we care to support there move in hope of getting more attention to the Freestyle artsit. What if TKA made it big as hiphiop artist than turn around and produce freestyle songs to go with there hiphop songs on there albums. All of a sudden Freestyle is back on the map. Sounds good doesn't it.

TKA are the leaders and sometimes leaders make decisions that are not popular. It comes with the territory.

The TKA George Lamond Album will quietly silence the critics... I can't wait

 

[Kenny Guido]

I wish that this site would make it easier for a person to order/buy Freestyle. I had mentioned a list before but wonder if that will happen. I hope it does.

That sounds like a great idea!! hey Jack G, can we do it?

I really want the new Nyasia single

ME TOO!!🙁

but I don't know if it is just a single or CD maxi single.

Whats the difference between the 2?

 

[*Sophia*]

Whats the difference between the 2? [/B][/QUOTE]


Kenny, I think he means is there just one song (single) or a few different versions of the same song (maxi single).

 

[Kenny Guido]

ah, I got it, Sophia!! I never really saw a difference. I just thought the record company would be too cheap to put more than 2 songs on a single!

 

[Krystal]

In regards to the new Naya song...

There are 4 different versions on the cd that I got from Freddy. 😉

Maxi Single 😛

 

[djlegendphilly]

It would help if the artist and labels both did business with the record pools and sent them records. This would help with getting them exposure. A lot of labels tend to not do this because most record pools ask for a minimum of 50 records per song.

 

[mike4949]

Good Job DJ Legend.

I miss you Angie!!

Point is, Freestyle will never die. Freestyle has a great following, any artist still do their thing. Freestyle is like punk, It's not mainstream, but their is still a massive following. Personally, freestyle needs to have new records break in with the club DJ's. In my opinion; if Freestyle becomes TRL ready, that would be the nail that seals Freestyle coffin. It would die!! Freestyle is better off where it is!! But more DJ's need to break new records in the clubs. The music still has great stock, and excellent quality!!😉

 

[845dj]

What would help is to have more indi's like myself who not only cultivate artists with the sounds of todays music, but freestyle as well!

Karli is young but is now exposed to freestyle because the owner of her label (me) grew up listening to the genre.

 

[RoGeReM]

Krystal,

Are there extended mixes? I would assume so.

Thanks

 

[FreestyleHead]

What has made me so mad is the fact that TKA didn't even try. Listening to the album made you feel as if they were purposely trying to neglect freestyle and piss people off. It really gave me that impression and i'm not the only one. No one gets anywhere by patting eachother on the back for mistakes. There wasn't even 2 hardcore freestyle tracks on there! Out of 12 songs, freestyle wasn't even worth a fraction of it? Looking at the way things went, I wouldn't be surprised if the album would have been more successful if it DID have freestyle on it. Kind of ironic how the whole point of dumping freestyle was to sell more records but the strategy didn't really work. They would have sold just as many copies if the whole thing would have been freestyle with the really old sound and even all that floorrockin' latin hip hop flava. All people like me was asking for was maybe 5 songs like that. 5 out of 12, that's all. We asked for a little and recieved absolutely nothing. Somebody mentioned something about how if freestyle acts started going after TRL, that would be the end. Well that's what TKA was trying to do with Forever, just the pop world didn't want them. The underground scene did want them, but they didn't want us. Kind of ironic. If it had been a hip hop album like someone else mentioned, I would have been happy because at least hip hop is music that gets respect on the streets. The fact that they dumped freestyle for nsync type of music is what makes it hurt even more.