Top Ten Freestyle Songs of 2009

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There obviously wasn't anywhere close to as much new freestyle as there was last year, but there was still enough to make a top ten freestyle songs of 2009.

1. Jonelle.....Cry Baby Cry
2. Pure Pleasure.....Memories
3. Jonelle.....You Got That
4. Rene.....Trying Not to Cry (Remix)
5. Joe Zangie.....Mystery
6. Christine Turner.....For You
7. Rockell & Joe Zangie.....When I Want You Back
8. Ayna.....Prisoner
9. Jessica Fabus.....On My Own
10. Stephanie Bennett.....I Miss You
 
The Tazmania CD provided most of the new traditional freestyle this year. I have a list coming but it's not what some might expect. 😎
 
1.wendy-im On Fire
2.amy Tori-another Story
3.erik Christian-i C I Have 2 Move On
4.safire -exotique
5. Sito-im Letting Go
6.samantha Gervasio-its Not Fair
7.pure Pleazure-runaway
8.stephanie Bennett- I Miss You
9jonelle-cry Baby Cry
10.sammy C-meant To Be
 
I like this that others are posting up top tens of current freestyle, kinda reminds me of back in the 90s when DJs from different regions would have top tens in those underground freestyle newsletters (AtomicReaction was one of them that I can remember).

I had actually forgotten about that Amy Tori "another story". I remember hearing the unfinished version earlier this year, but never heard anything about it after that.
 
This was the year you heard freestyle influenced tracks all over the the pop and and urban scene. We shouldn't ignore what is going on. Freestyle lives on.......with a different flavor!

10. Jordin Sparks SOS/Let The Music Play. A full fledged freestyle track that broke top 40 radio. Is it better than the original? Hell no but nothing beats the classics. But we must move on...


9. Pitbull/Frankie J "Let it go". Technically,it was released in 2008 but made more noise in 2009. Produced by the Diaz brothers from Miami who are no strangers to freestyle fused tracks. They produced Casely's "Emotional" which sampled Johnny O's Fantasy Girl.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekec5omZ-GY"]YouTube- Frankie J ft. Pitbull - Let It Go (New Music 2009)[/ame]

8. Beyonce "Sweet Dreams". Yes, it is freestyle....2009! Betty D could have done a song like this.


7. Chris Brown " Don't know what it is". I could see Joey Kidd doing a song like this. Scott Storch killed it on this track.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-z2hLQkiUA"]YouTube- Chris Brown - Don't Know What It Is[Prod. Scott Storch][/ame]
 
6. Britney Spears 3 Djtwin's 123 3d Remix

5. Nina Sky On some Bulls**t. The ghetto freestyle track of the year!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xklz_bAuoAA"]YouTube- Nina Sky - On Some Bullshit[/ame]

4. Jessica Fabus On my own. This best thing to happen to freestyle recently.......

4. Ayna -Prisoner. The lady gaga of freestyle lol.Seriously,she is extremely creative.

3. Stefanie Bennett Can You Stop The Rain South Radio. It's Stefanie with an F 😀

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiD-eudSFJE"]YouTube- Stefanie Bennett Can You Stop The Rain South Radio[/ame]
 
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Classic frestuyle track of the year- Romeo Romeo "Without Her" (Live from Club 1018 NYC) Let me build a time machine so I can go back to this era.....edits by the one and only Chep Nunez. R.I.P.

This is what you call HARD freestyle
 
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Hope all you can join Club House Dance Music on January 1, 2010 at 10pm on www.wtccfm.org for our Top 25 songs of 2009.

We begin the year with a recap of the previous year.
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xklz_bAuoAA&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube- Nina Sky - On Some Bullshit[/ame]

Of the songs posted so far in WS' countdown, this is the one that is the most freestyle. This track is off the hook and Nina Sky look real good. Part of the reason why these freestyle like songs by mainstream artists don't get acceptance within the freestyle community is cuz the vocal style and music is rnb, basically rnb over breakbeats.
 
While I'm all for freestyle broadening it's horizons, I do feel that a freestyle countdown should still consist mostly of songs that one would consider traditional hardcore freestyle.
 
Kid Heartbreak said:
YouTube- Nina Sky - On Some Bullshit
Of the songs posted so far in WS' countdown, this is the one that is the most freestyle. This track is off the hook and Nina Sky look real good. Part of the reason why these freestyle like songs by mainstream artists don't get acceptance within the freestyle community is cuz the vocal style and music is rnb, basically rnb over breakbeats.
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You hit the nail right on the head with your last sentence.
 
Kid Heartbreak said:
While I'm all for freestyle broadening it's horizons, I do feel that a freestyle countdown should still consist mostly of songs that one would consider traditional hardcore freestyle.
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I've been listening to freestyle since 86 so I can only listen to the same production style for so long. Freestyle needs to think outside of the box to attract new listeners.
 
2. Lady Gaga- No Way. Everything about this song rocks. Good lyrics,a fat beat and strong vocals. 100 % freestyle.

1.Jay Sean-Down.
 
The production style on that Nina Sky track has a very hardcore freestyle edge to it and the vocal style of it is not quite as rnb as most freestyle like songs by mainstream artists.

The Lady Gaga track has a very traditional freestyle drum pattern to it, but the rest of it has a very commercial sound to it. The Jay Sean f/Lil' Wayne was my favorite of all the freestyle like songs by mainstream artists before I heard the Nina Sky. I think "Down" is a good example of what I was talking about when I said earlier in this thread that a lot of these songs are basically rnb over breakbeats. I had played that song in my car (the traditional freestyle remix at that) after listening to several hardcore freestyle songs consecutive and it just wasn't happening. There was something missing. It was like listening to rnb with a phat breakbeat behind it. I think that's what keeps most people (freestyle fans as well as the general public) from accepting or viewing those type of songs as "freestyle". Freestyle has to have a certain edge to it and in my opinion that's a big part of why a lot of the newer freestyle by "freestyle" artists has a hard time hittin' with the fans the way that the older stuff did.
 
Its just a more urban or pop take on freestyle. YouTube has remixes labeled freestyle by the user so its not just my view on it.Others are seeing it that way too. Speaking of Down,there are two bootleg freestyle remixes to it.
 
Actually there are three. Possibly more...some good and then some bad...lol

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsnYSmCbuPE"]YouTube- Jay Sean ft. Lil Wayne - Down (Live Wire Freestyle Remix) Dance Club Music[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPR0U-8usg4"]YouTube- Jay sean - Down (Freestyle Remix ) By Dj Kam[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKNBE9mUyyI"]YouTube- Jay Sean Ft. Lil' Wayne - Down (2Rude Freestyle/Old School Remix) CLEANER SOUND!![/ame]
 
Peep the vocal edits at the 2:03 mark (end of the rap) of the Nina Sky song. Now that's straight up freestyle! It's those subtleties that have to come together to get a true freestyle record. I would be very curious to know if the freestyle similarities with this song were intentional or if it just came out sounding freestyle by accident. Either way, they did it better than most actual freestyle artists who are actually trying to make a freestyle record.

Part of why I'm against loading up a freestyle countdown with songs by mainstream artists is cuz those artists already got their props and recognition. These are hardcore underground freestyle websites that are supposed to be an outlet for the hardcore heads to come together & discuss elements/aspects of the music that one isn't going to hear anywhere else. It would be one thing if hardcore freestyle was no longer being made, but there's quite a bit of it still coming out (some of it is top quality). As long as it continues to be produced, it's my job & every true freestyle head's job to promote it & at least make people aware that current freesyle does exist. It was freestyle being labled as old music for old people that destroyed it more than anything else did.
 
What you have coming out are "traditonal" freestyle tracks. In all actuality,the sound hasn't been updated since the 90's.

In order to compete with the mainstream you can't sound like a left over track from the 90's era. If you're trying to appease the fans that grew up on the 90's sound then you just open up the vault and bust out the tracks and put 'em on a cd that says 2009 copyright. The CD jewel case might have been manufactured in 2009 but the tracks got a stale 90's sound to it. It's as simple as that.

This is nothing personal against the artists with this sound. Most of them have tried to update their sound but they have been boxed in. There are those of us who want to hear something more relevant and cutting edge.There are some exceptions like Jonelle's CBC.Also check out the new Pure Pleasure/Nyasia track for an example of this.

The Jay Sean and Lady Gaga song is the protoype for the new sound that is emerging. Why are they listed #1 and # 2? Simply because those songs are helping change the musical landscape. "Down" is making it more acceptable to sing to a girl about love again with an uptempo break beat instead of talking about "making it rain" in the urban culture. That's freestyle 101 there. It don't get no more basic than that.

The lady Gaga track as you have pointed out yourself utilizes the Latin Hip Hop beat with new technology. If it sounds too commercial its because it's a hit and is relevant to today's sound.The lyrics talk about infidelity, a subject freestyle all is all too familiar with. Her vocal stylings on the track have that uber unique trait found in freestyle.

Both of these songs are making the breakbeat uptempo sound/singing about love situations not only acceptable but not seem so out of place on radio.Both songs have millions of people listening and online,radio,satellite,videos etc. Now that's influence...And its the kids 6-18 that are being the most influenced by these new sounds. This is going to be their sound not so much ours.

The sound is still in its infancy but is evolving quickly. These are what you call the "Bridge" records that will take us from the Hip Hop sound into the new uptempo breakbeat tracks. It's not going to be call freestyle but it will be the rebirth.
 
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One huge thing you're overlooking here is that freestyle was never on that level. Most of these freestyle like songs by mainstream artists are playing in a league that very few freestyle artists were ever a part of. Almost every single one of these freestyle like songs by pop mainstream artists is a charted hit (for real). You can probably count on one hand how many freestyle artists ever had even one song that charted in the top 40 (not the dance chart). And the few that did stopped recording freestyle soon thereafter. There is a world of difference between pop & underground. Freestyle had a scene all it's own. These artists don't do shows revolving around any one genre of music (part of the reason why any freestyle artist who was able to crossover was doing albums of ALL TYPES OF MUSIC, but when they would perform at the ghetto shows they'd only perform their freestyle songs). It's like what someone had told me when I tried coming at them several years ago on some "freestyle is on a comback, look at all the mainstream acts using freestyle beats". This person said something to the effect of "they might record a freestyle like song here or there to be different, but they're not going to be doing an entire freestyle album or even part of an album of that stuff". Freestyle was so much about the scene, much like any hardcore movement was. There's no scene for any of this freestyle by mainstream artists. It's just songs with some different flava than the usual. It's not intended to be anything that people would look to label.
 
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