Kenny Guido
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me too!
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Fernando
ditto
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Never once did I tell someone to take it elsewhere, never once did I not accept a newbie, plain and simple I made sperratic appearance because the BB plain old sucked. This form is SWEET you can put all the BS in the Everything and Anything else section. I start really paying attention to the formum @club freestyle this week and it rocks because of the division and the ability not to read someones posts.
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JackG
Thanks for hanging out here Primax.
Everyone from the nation is welcomed here!
Everyone from the nation is welcomed here!
I'm still trying to figure this Club Freestyle thing out. I am computer illiterate so the Freestyle Nation was nice and simple for me. LOL. I got to meet some really great people, especially my Maria. I guess Club Freestyle is the next generation though. I am not online that much but when I am, I will come here....*wondering if I did this right*
Kenny Guido
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MakeYaDance
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LONG LIVE CF
I for one have read the posts on that board, but I never got into it. I guess it's because like FreestylefreaK said it was pretty boring. I have gotten hooked on CF. At least I am partaking of a NEW LEGACY.
LONG LIVE CLUB FREESTYLE!
I for one have read the posts on that board, but I never got into it. I guess it's because like FreestylefreaK said it was pretty boring. I have gotten hooked on CF. At least I am partaking of a NEW LEGACY.
LONG LIVE CLUB FREESTYLE!
Kenny Guido
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YUP-YUP
Well, 2 days as a ClubFreesytle member and 2 days on this site. I can see myself becoming a ClubFreestyle junkie..HELP!!!!...Seriously, after trying to figure out the "threads" and "posts" and all that other nonsense, I have concluded that this is a great site that promotes our music. I guess we don't do JOD's though???? Thanks for the welcome there big guy*forgetting homeboys name*....
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Re: ditto
So that's what all the smiley faces are for.
RI if you ever feel like you ain't wanted around here
LEAVE j/k
There is too much love around here. More than enough.
Fernando said:
KENNY GUIDO said:
So that's what all the smiley faces are for.
RI if you ever feel like you ain't wanted around here
LEAVE j/k
There is too much love around here. More than enough.
Kenny Guido
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guess so!
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Arturo
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I personally feel it was best for the "Freestyle Nation BB" to come to an end... When i first discovered "The BB" back in 1998, it was full of life...people would post there a lot, and most often it would be topics relevant to Freestyle music...around the same time i discovered Laroo's Freestyle Joint, which was the chat at which Freestyle peeps would hang out at that time...Freestyle fans would hang out at Laroo's and post on the BB. However, in early 1999 when Laroo's came to and end...I feel it was a devastating blow to the online Freestyle Communtity (at the time...) I actually believe that the end of Laroo's is what eventually led to the end of the Freestyle Nation...Freestyle fans were left without a place to chat...so then Adam created the Freestyle Nation chatroom, and added a link to it on the BB, so that Freestyle fans could have a new home. Sure, Adam's Freestyle Nation chat was very similar to Laroo's...in fact it was just the same, other than the fact that the background color was different...but for some reason, It never became as popular as Laroo's...not many people would go into this chatroom...I really don't know why...perhaps a lot of the old peeps never found out about this new chatroom, and they were just "lost" when Laroo's ceased to exist...The lack of popularity of the Freestyle Nation chatroom reflected on the BB, as people started posting less and less...and when they did, it would seldomly be about Freestyle...until eventually the BB became a medium for soap operas for Freestyle fans...sure it's sad to see the BB go, but deep inside i'm glad that the BB gone. It is now where it belongs...in our memories.
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JackG
Arturo, thanks for taking the time to write that. It was great to read.
gregk
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Not many people remember me. I was an "original", hanging out at the Rare Groove Bulletin Board. I remember all these people that Dez, Rummy and Rhoq have talked about. I remember going over to Adam's house weeks before he made the Freestyle Nation BB. We were in his room discussing ways on how to promote freestyle in the Chicago area. Considering we both lived in the suburbs, this would be a challenge. The only record stores back then were in Chicago. Anyways, since Adam (such a smart guy) was a genius at computers, majoring in Computer Science in school, he said he would create a freestyel bulletin board of his own, resembling the Rare Groove Bulletin board. He really didn't know what kind of response he would get since there were very very few internet sites back then for freestyle. After a few weeks since we met in his room, he created the Freestyle Nation Bulletin Board. Most of us "ORIGINALS" moved over to the new board. Then Adam created a personal website, with the Freestyle Nation logo beautifully, artistically sound.
Adam helped promote freestyle, not only in Chicago but in the world. We had people from Canada (Franco Carlos), France
(Francis Tanneur), Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Latin America, South America.
Besides Adam, I wanted to help promote freestyle. About the time we met in Adam's room, I just joined a freestyle radio show in Chicago, called "The 4 O'Clock Freestyle Slam" on 103.1 FM, every Saturday from 4-5p.m. Granted it only lasted for about a year. I tried to promote the Freestyle Nation bulletin board on the radio show, but it really didn't reach anyone since not many people had access to the internet as they do today. When I talked about the website and the website addy, probably not many people knew what I was talking about as well. The internet and freestyle has come a long way in the past 5 or 6 years.
When I was with the radio station, I put up their website for the Radio show. Slowly more and more freestyle websites came on the internet. I finally figured out how to do a website, so I strived to be different than anyone elses. On my website, I had weekly happenings in the Chicago Freestyle Scene. What was really unique is since I was the contact for all the record labels, I got their name on the internet by posting their information on the website. I would list their record label name, address, artists, phone/fax number, email, A & R Rep. etc. It was like a dictionary of freestyle. Since my school was powering the website, when I graduated, it was deleted in '97. ..
About some of the posts from above...
Us 'originals' like Primax said, never once did not welcome a newbie, never did we tell them 'go take a hike'. We always welcomed them. We would welcome them on the BB saying, we have their support, etc. Don't really know why those people would say stuff like that...
There is alot of reasons why the "Originals" haven't posted much. There are alot of reasons why the posts on the FN BB dwindled. I can give you one reason. Think of our age. I am 26, which most of us are. Not all of us can sit at a computer all day, and constantly write messages. Like Dez said, we have things going on in our life. I have two kids (3 months and 2 years), a wife and a full time job. I hardly get the chance to do anything, let alone email and post on the website. I used to post 5 or 6 times a day. At points in our life, the Freestyle Nation became our life, just like some of us at clubfreestyle.com.
The drama on the BB got intense, but that is not the only reason why Adam terminated the board. He has a personal life as well, related to which I just described above.
To be honest with you, I checked out ClubFreestyle when it
first came on the internet. Nothing really impressed me about it. So I went back to the Freestyle Nation BB. Since the BB was terminated (3 months ago in 2 days, since June 27th), I went back to CF and was impressed by how much work has been put into it. Jack G has done a great job and I give him much props.
Greg K.
Adam helped promote freestyle, not only in Chicago but in the world. We had people from Canada (Franco Carlos), France
(Francis Tanneur), Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Latin America, South America.
Besides Adam, I wanted to help promote freestyle. About the time we met in Adam's room, I just joined a freestyle radio show in Chicago, called "The 4 O'Clock Freestyle Slam" on 103.1 FM, every Saturday from 4-5p.m. Granted it only lasted for about a year. I tried to promote the Freestyle Nation bulletin board on the radio show, but it really didn't reach anyone since not many people had access to the internet as they do today. When I talked about the website and the website addy, probably not many people knew what I was talking about as well. The internet and freestyle has come a long way in the past 5 or 6 years.
When I was with the radio station, I put up their website for the Radio show. Slowly more and more freestyle websites came on the internet. I finally figured out how to do a website, so I strived to be different than anyone elses. On my website, I had weekly happenings in the Chicago Freestyle Scene. What was really unique is since I was the contact for all the record labels, I got their name on the internet by posting their information on the website. I would list their record label name, address, artists, phone/fax number, email, A & R Rep. etc. It was like a dictionary of freestyle. Since my school was powering the website, when I graduated, it was deleted in '97. ..
About some of the posts from above...
Us 'originals' like Primax said, never once did not welcome a newbie, never did we tell them 'go take a hike'. We always welcomed them. We would welcome them on the BB saying, we have their support, etc. Don't really know why those people would say stuff like that...
There is alot of reasons why the "Originals" haven't posted much. There are alot of reasons why the posts on the FN BB dwindled. I can give you one reason. Think of our age. I am 26, which most of us are. Not all of us can sit at a computer all day, and constantly write messages. Like Dez said, we have things going on in our life. I have two kids (3 months and 2 years), a wife and a full time job. I hardly get the chance to do anything, let alone email and post on the website. I used to post 5 or 6 times a day. At points in our life, the Freestyle Nation became our life, just like some of us at clubfreestyle.com.
The drama on the BB got intense, but that is not the only reason why Adam terminated the board. He has a personal life as well, related to which I just described above.
To be honest with you, I checked out ClubFreestyle when it
first came on the internet. Nothing really impressed me about it. So I went back to the Freestyle Nation BB. Since the BB was terminated (3 months ago in 2 days, since June 27th), I went back to CF and was impressed by how much work has been put into it. Jack G has done a great job and I give him much props.
Greg K.
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Rhoq
Greg...
That was nicely put memoir of the FN...Things certainly were very different way back when...
There was a time when all we "Me, Rummy, Fierce (now know as DJ Fate), Dez, Marie, Malika, Lee, Armando, Muevelo, Roberto, you, DJR, and a few others" would spend very single free moment on the FN BBD or in C-Ires (later Laroo's) Chat Room...Man those were the days!!!
Thanks for the memories, bro.
That was nicely put memoir of the FN...Things certainly were very different way back when...
There was a time when all we "Me, Rummy, Fierce (now know as DJ Fate), Dez, Marie, Malika, Lee, Armando, Muevelo, Roberto, you, DJR, and a few others" would spend very single free moment on the FN BBD or in C-Ires (later Laroo's) Chat Room...Man those were the days!!!
Thanks for the memories, bro.