How did you start listening to freestyle?

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Need more freestyle radio stations

I agree Tim....I live in Buffalo NY, theres no radio station that plays Freestyle. I wish they would play more freestyle since music now is more mainstream.
 
well actually i am 14 years old. i first heard freestyle when i was about 6 years old. at that age, my aunt taught me the words to tka's "maria" and giggles' "what goes around comes aronnd". but i just started listening to it about a year ago. my sister who is 3 years older than me listens to it all the time and got me hooked on it. i hear it on the radio, at parties and on napster
 
awwww, a jr freestyler!!!!! bkhoney u are the voice of the new generation!!!! spread freestyle out among ur friends!!!!!! 😉
 
I would have to say when Bad Boy Bill or Fast Eddie would play it back on BMX & GCI when Mic Mac first started.
 
When?

Growing up in the '80's here in NY, it was all about dance music - I was in a smaller minority who clung to good ole' rock and roll. However, I hooked up with some friends who listened to it, and I would have to listen to it. I remember liking "Let The Music Play" and "Give Me Tonight" by Shannon first, even tho I didn't know there was another name for it - just thought it was dance music/top 40 stuff. Then Silent Morning caught my attention in a big way in '87, loved the voice, loved the lyrics - went out and brought the single (first time I'd ever brought a "dance" single, and I doubt I admitted it to anyone!) Listened to that 45 (oh God, how many of you are old enough to remember them - vinyl, man!) 'til I wore it out. For years I blew it off tho, then realized I was missing some of these great songs from my cd collection - I'm very into my '80's music, went searching and started buying CD's - ok, truth is I got Silent Morning from Napster, saw a few other songs by him, listened and said "That's it" went out and brought both albums on CD, have the other 2 songs by him now, too. Well, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it!

Hasta!

Kerri 🙂
 
in 1994, spring love came on the radio, i'm from milwaukee, and we dont got any freestyle radio stations, but they used to play a few freestyle songs on tha radio back in tha day,,,but i heard spring love by stevie b and i started likin tha musik...🙂
 
I started listening from my cousin...she was a BIG freestyle fan back in the late 80's...Everywhere I went with her and her friends it was freestyle blazin' in da car or to a freestyle club we would go to...( this was back in da day when freestyle was actually played in Orlando)...but u know how the story goes been an addict ever since then! 😀
 
I started listening w/ my cousins back in Miami (that's all they would listen to). I remember being a little chamackita always tagging along and trying to be in the "in-crowd" w/ em...ah those were the days...
 
Luv it and Live it

I remember first listening to Freestyle when i was around 3 or 4 yrs old. My aunt use to take me every where with her, and she was always bumpin the phattest Freestyle. So since then i loved and lived with Freestyle.

Love
The 1 and onle,
~Yesenia~
 
A Few years back!

I was a Fransican student in Mexico, All I listened to b4 that was "HIP-HOP" like Public Enemy, still #1, Paris, and many others.

I had this tape that my friend from Santa Clara High Skool had givin' me about 3 years b4, but I never listened to it cuzz I thought that It sucked.

One day, I played it just to see if it had anything else besides that "MUSIC THAT SUCKED" (Freestyle)

Guess what?? This time, as I was listening I did think that it sucked at all! Infact, I really liked it!

When I cam back from mexico, I had lost that tape, but I was hearing ANGELINA & BUFFY on both Wild 107.7 (Now Wild94.9) and just Buffy on 106 KMEL.

I went out an bought them two singles

Next thing I now, I need to buy hella music, cuzz Am gonna be doin' a Freestyle radio show OPPS
 
I was into Top 40 at first. Then around 1997, 6th grade, I got into Electrohop (back then, it was refered to just as Funk), e.g. Egyptian Lover, Wrecking Cru, Soul Sonic Force.

I used to listen to KDAY 1580AM at nights when they played electrohop. Sometimes they'd throw Trinere and Debbie Deb in the mix. Trinere was the first Freestyle artist I got hooked on. Of course, I didn't know what kind of music she was. All I know is that she stood out from the Electrohop music, because she was singing verses and choruses and her BPMs were a little slower. KDAY started playing "Summertime, Summertime" too, which was really weird. But it was so cute, I immediately liked it. When Power106 started (when they were a real Dance station), I heard Expose' and I bought 3 of their 12" singles they had out. From then on, being a amateur mobile DJ, I tried to find songs that would mix well with Nocera and Expose'--->Freestyle.
 
FOR ME!!!!

WELL FOR ME I REMEBER NAYOBE BACK THEN AND CORO AND LISA LISA... PLUS JUDY TORRES AND CYNTHIA BACK IN YTHE DAYS OF NARCISSUS SOEM OF THEM PERFORMED THERE IN BOSTON MASS,,.. I WAS 16 AND I STILL GOT IN TO SEE THEM... I REMEMBER LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY... ITS WAS OFF THE HOOOKK I THINK TONASIA AND JOHNNY O PERFORMED THERE... I WISH IT WAS STILL LIKE THAT.... LOL
 
well... for some reason when i was young i didn't like music AT ALL!! (i don't remember why...) i mean - i would get mad if my family turned the radio on in the car n stuff - but one day in like '87 i got a hold of a tape recorder and i would see videos on the tv and i would hold my tape recorder up to the tv to record all the songs i liked - i would record stuff like whitney "i wanna dance with somebody (who loves me)" , natalie cole "jump start" , madonna "who's that girl" , all the expose' stuff, all the jets stuff , atlantic starr "one lover at a time" and so on... and from then on i stuck to that kind of music - DANCE MUSIC - and over the years the type of dance music that really stuck with me was freestyle - my first tape was of the jets' first album (i consider some of their stuff freestyle) - second was expose's exposure - and then the cover girls' show me, and sweet sensation's take it while it's hot, etc, etc...
 
i was into breaking , then it stretched in to the womens voices over electro beats, then it was over, i had to create , hehe 😉
 
how did i start?
lordddddddddd
u gonna laugh..i think it was when i was way younger and into breakdancing and oldskool hip hop, bboys (ahem..and GIRLS) started breakn to songs like shannon's gimme tonight, and let the music play, and i was so into those beats..i started buying records CONSTANTLY and making "pause tapes" with mommy's "victrola" (the 70s version with the "flashing pulsating to the beat moving lights <still have it> lol THENSTARTED djing and fllowing the music ( im retired now from i longgggg story lol)..(my 1st vinyl was PLANET ROcK when i was NO LIE 7 yrs old, but the first freestyle jam i was all into was SHOW ME by the cover girls in 86 ( i was in 6th grade awww)
Singing in the school yard..WORDS ARE SO EASSSSSSSSSSY TO SAYYY AY AY AY AY AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY SHOW ME SHOE ME>>(YOU KNOW THE REST LOL)
Then songs lik Jill's match me up in heaven, giggles love letters and amarettos clave rocks..(what IS a CLAVE anyway 13 yrs later i STILL Dont know hmm)
AY AY AY AY PAPI!! LOL and the rest i history..u can pretty much say i was ADDICTED...especially to the song..(GOODBYE)VICTIM OF LOVE the ORIGINAL, not the re-release, THAT BEAT WAS SICKKKKKKKK..(remember they did that?) i was so into freestyle from that point ON!

😎
 
werent you on beat street brooklyn girl ?? j/k thats right , when brenda k. came in the movie i was diggin it .. so thats how it got started 😉
 
I don't know!?

I think it was in the eighties (around 1985/1986). I started to listening a radio called
"Radio 7" . It was one of the rare radios to play regularly (anytime during the day)
the Latin Hip-Hop music (Freestyle music).

Francis
 
It was probably in late 1985, I was sixteen, and my sister came back from spring break in Ft. Lauderdale. With her she brought this mix tape that she probably swiped from someone down there and on it was "The Mexican" by Jellybean followed by "Please Don't Go." That was it, I was hooked. I begged this local card shop that also sold records (don't ask) to order "Please Don't Go" for me.

By the summer of 1985 it began picking up speed and I remember spending all the money that I made from working at Key Food on 12" singles. Jill's "Match Made Up In Heaven" soon followed and then I remember seeing this girl at work carrying a 12" with the Fever label on it. I knew the label from Nayobe's single and I just assumed it was the same one I had. Turns out it was "Show Me."

And the rest, as they say, is history...
 
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