How did you first hear of Freestyle??

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I too listened to Freestyle before it was called that. Some of my earliest freestyle memories come from my stint at B-91 (WKRB) in Brooklyn. We played dance music all day & night and "Freestyle" was a major part of the stations success. I remember the day that Mickey Garcia (yes, he was part of the station) convinced me to go up to the Bronx and check out this singer he was working with. She was performing for the V.I.P. Record Pool at Club Mirage (I think that was the club) and we had to see her. It was there that I met Judy Torres and was able to see one of her first shows. The record was just out on Jackie Jack Records. Mickey also turned us on too many of the other upcoming stars of freestyle as well. Imagine a station that had Mickey & Elvin doing remixes for it. With Geronimo, Ralphie Marino & Speedy from WKTU, Darren "Wayne" Friedman (famous for his Spike remixes for La Bouche & others), Tracy Cloherty (now PD at HOT 97 in NYC), Karen Stewart (now at WYNY) and myself to name a few of the personalities. This station had 10 watts!!!! And yet it was the only station on everyone in Southern Brooklyns radio. I have since learned that many of the big names in radio used to come into Brooklyn just to see what the commotion was about. But that's another story.

I also remember that we had a benefit concert for the station at the Bay Club that had freestlye acts like: Denise Lopez, Babie & Keyes, April, Nocera and others that I can't remember all show up and perform for free.
 
HEY MARTINI

THATS SOUNDS LIKE HOW I GOT INTO FREESTYLE...MY OLDER SIS LISTENED TO IT, AND I STARTED LISTENING TO IT..AND USED TO GO TO THIS LIL CLUB IN BROOKLYN CALLED APOCLYPSE WHERE THEY HAD A LOT OF FREESTYLE ARTIST PERFORM THERE.THE REST HIS HISTORY...HEY MARTINI...U MALE OR FEMALE???
 
I've only been a fan of Freestyle for a year and a half. My boy got me into it cause he DJ's it and my girl at the time has been a fan since she was 5. So i started listening to it and ever since then, i've been a freestyle fanatic. I cant stop listening to it, i'm always talking about it and i'm trying to get a lot of my friends to listen to it. Its the best music out there and i will support it as much as possible.
 
Definitely 85'....when skatin' was the sh@t! Every Saturday night at USA/Skater's World both in Wayne, NJ . I can never forget how it was known as "club music," back in those days. The many years at the rink brought many acts, when I got the opportunities to see and meet Nayobe, TKA, Covergirls, Sweet Sensation, Tina B., Noel, Brenda K. Starr, Judy Torres, Cynthia, Joey Kidd, George Lamond, Coro, April, Soave' and so many more. I remember buying mixed tapes and vinyl at Eclipse Records, Downtown Paterson every month. School dances played nothing but freestyle. Memories with my crew, chillin' late summer nights, cruisin' Bergenline or driving by Burger King in Lodi to scope out the ladies. Those were the times that will never be forgotten.
 
The first freestyle song I heard was Shannon's "Let The Music Play", but the one that got me hooked was Johnny O's "Fantasy Girl" back in 1987-1988. Then when I was a little older, I used to go to this club in San Jose called Studio 47 that had Freestyle artist performing, like Debbie Deb, Noel and many others.

Eric
 
Ahh..the memories! I don't exactly know what year it was but I can recall going to United Skates Roller Rink ( do I sense a pattern here?) and dancing in the middle of the rink on the dance floor to Sweet Sensations "Hooked on You". I must have been in junior high...then when my friends and I got a lil' bit older we would cruise Hempstead Tpke, D.P.A., and Franny Lou blasing the system and looking for guidos in those Zcavaricci's and I.O.U. sweatshirts driving the IROC Z'S ....ahhh take me back!
 
Well my earliest memory of freestyle music was either Shannon "Let The Music Play" or "Give Me Tonight" but like Kenny Da Guido said, it wasn't called freestyle back then. I also started DJing in 1986 right when freestyle was just becoming popular and I gave it up in 1993 so I was DJing during the years when freestyle's popularity was at it's height. I used to end all my high school parties that I deejayed with "Silent Morning" by Noel. I also remember when Hot 103 came on the air and one of the first songs I heard on there was probably "One Way Love" by TKA. I also used to goto those clubs that Freestyle Diva was talking about and listened to freestyle almost all night long - Paleds, Avantis, Silver Screens on Wednesdays, Emerald City, Forest Hills Swim Club on Mondays. I loved watching the guys battle each other on the dance floor. Freestyle Diva Kelly is also bringing back some great memories cause I was one of those guidos cruising on Franny Lew and Hempstead Turpike. Deer Park Avenue was too far for me. Actually we used to hang out on 21st Rd and Franny Lew by Dr. Goldberg and Dr. Herschberg office. The people that lived there hated us so much, they put a lawn sprinkler on the sidewalk just to keep us away from their house. LOL. Ahhhh the guido clothing - the ZCavaricci's, the IOU sweatshirts, the cardigan sweaters, the decks (white keds loafers), the Sergio Tachini sweat suits(especially the ones that fell off the back of the truck), the black Reebok hightops with the velcro straps sticking out. God I miss Chess King clothing store. LOL. What about the guidettes with the big hair? Everytime girls would goto the bathroom, it would be a Final Net hairspray convention. LOL.
Damn I really do miss the good old days. Ahh the memories...
 
OMG Sam K ...do I have a pic with my hair like that boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hmmmm wonder if we ever met on Franny Lou LOL...we used to go up there in a white Toyota Paseo with those neon pink light ground effects LOL oh gawwwd!
 
no me recuerdo

dont remember, i mean, the term is (in the german speaking world at least) not used really... so when i heard tracks i first thought of them as early hip hop with vocals, stuff like that... i mean, i knew Tony Butler's FREESTYLE album before i knew that this was a term for this kinda of music... in any case, the first freestyle trax that i really embraced were GET AWAY by stephanie & Theyre playing our song by Trinere - they're both on the compilation LOW RIDER VOLUME V.
 
freestyle?

of course, if Special Request's Take it to the max is also freestyle, and Planet patrol's Play at your own risk things look difrntly
 
Grazie la cugina!

Hmmmmmm. For me I would say 86-87. My cousin was the one with Cynthia and Sween Sensation TAPES!!! We would sit in front of her house listening to Endless Night and Take It While Its Hot. Then walk up to the boulevard w/keys in hand hooting at the guys in their IROCs...when neon colors and big hair where the thing, and ACT III was the place to be.

Eventually I had the tapes and cds and la cugina moved on to other music and another town. Although my collection stems 150 disks (all freestyle) and growing...the internet has completed my collection. Believe it or not I still have alllll my tapes from when I first got my casette player....which makes them about 20 years old. I even have tapes from Hot 97 Saturday Night Dance Party. Wow I'm old!
 
cool..

cool that u see being old as something positive.. well most of u guyz are in the game a bit longer than i am... i really started lisning to music in 98, so... Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys. and from then on, i started listening to lots of hip hop and finally, many other styles. now i'm 24 and i feel old and young at the same time...
 
Wow ... this is kinda like my other post wishing we could all 'go back' ... for me, it hadda start for me be back in the 84-85 era, when all the great (well, we thought they were great) dance and rap (yes, rap was cool back in 82-85) movies were out ... I remember when Planet Rock came out -- yes, the ORIGINAL -- it was ALL over the place ! We were breakdancing back in like 83, watchin movies like Breakin, Beat Street, and the like ... Then the sound EVOLVED to club/dance music. We had a specialty station from around 1986 - 1991 that ONLY played 'CLUB' music .. nobody called it freestyle back then. But they were GREAT at playing the greatest dance music at the time -- as well as the old school 'hip house' music .. which was a mix of freestyle and dance. HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE THIS MUSIC ?!?! -- I remember all the clubs, all the live acts .. and who could forget the clothes ?!? Yup, my countless pairs of Cavaricci's, IOU Sweatshirts, Fila and Tacchini Sweat suits, TRAVEL FOX shoes and sneeks, and the slickest haircuts .. and was it me, or were the women SO FINE back then ? LOL! All along, it was the MUSIC that drove us ... it shaped our lives, it bled through our hearts, along with all our passionate relationships (at least it did, for me) ... We wore out our tape players and blew out speakers with all our mix tapes -- what a time it was ... I better stop now, tears are coming to my eyes ...

And hey there 'Tenant_upstairs' .. are you sure we haven't crossed paths ? All our stories and demeanor seems very similar !! I like your style !! LOL!
 
dam i feel old......

I lived in the Bronx at the time and my brother was a jock at a Queens Nightclub. I just started spinning at 13 years old. With early facial hair on my chin and a fake ID in hand, I started my venture to all the clubs in NY. I started hearing groups like Kraftwerk, Planet Patrol, Soul Sonic, etc... But, the first I heard Freestyle was at a block party in Brooklyn and the songs were: Xena-"On The Upside", Jenny Burton--"Remember What you Like", Lisa Lisa--"Wonder If I Take You Home", Tina B--"Honey To A Bee" and some others that I can't remember the titles to. Man, I just had a VH1/Freestyle Flashback, lol ! Nice memories, but dam I feel old!!!!!!!!!!!
Peace...
 
It's Been A While.

I was about 5.

I'm 21 and my 2 oldest sister(age 31 & 26) Played freestyle everyday with the high, teased bangs full of hairspray with sneakers of all colors like pink, purple, blue and bright green. What were they thinking. What was I thinking when I started to look and dress like them. I treasure those pictures from the 80's.

I remember me at some party my sisters took me to and they were giving freestyle and the guys were break-dancing. I thought it was so cool so I went in the middle of the dance floor spinning on one knee. Right then and there I fell in love with freestyle cause I had so much fun looking stupid and being dizzy.
 
i first got into Freestyle in 1993, WILD 107.7 (now WILD 949) was playing all sorts of Freestyle in the mix! i remember the first songs i took consideration into were "All Night" by Trinere, "I Won't Stop loving You" by C Bank, "Take Me In Your Arms" by Lil Suzy, and "Roses Are Red" by Maribel", I remember constantly listening to the dub of the mix I got when I heard these songs. I still wish I had that tape around! However, i wasn't aware of the term "Freestyle" until 1996! I also remember Power 107 in LOS ANGELES had the phatest mixshows of Freestyle my dad got a dub of one of there mixshows and I remember taht's were I heard Coro's "My Fallen Angel" it was the extended version which is my favorite version to that song!
 
I'm 19 now and still remember the day when i was about 8 yrs. old and my cuzins came home with the Timmy T cd and started bumping "time after time" - i instantly got into it - I was the only one in my crew to listen to freestyle and was sometimes messed with cuz i wasn't into the mc hammer or vannila ice type of music! But when they heard and saw that alot of fine women listen to freestyle they instantly began to listen to it also. {🙂
 
I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO FREESTYLE FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER AND I REMEMBER FIRST LISTENING TO IT BECAUSE OF MY UNCLE HE COLLECTED MIC-MAC RECORDS AND WAS ALWAYS PLAYING SOMETHING AND I LOVED IT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND IT HAS BEEN WITH ME SINCE. EVERYONE THAT KNOWS ME KNOWS I LOVE FREESTYLE AND WILL ALWAYS. I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I WENT TO A CLUB GOD I HAD TO BE LIKE 13 THEY USE TO HAVE THE TEEN NIGHTS DURING THE SUMMER IN SOME OF THE CLUBS OUT HERE IN LONG ISLAND ESCAPES, TRIXX. THE FIRST PERSON I EVER SAW LIVE WAS JOHHNY O. I MISS THAT ALL THE CLUBS WOULD BRING FREESTYLE PERFORMERS EVERY WEEK EVERYBODY WENT. FREESTYLE IS MY LOVE. 🙂
 
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