I don't think we've done a meet and greet in some time. So let's go old school. Post your name and year started with Freestyle.
Then in remarks a tale of your 1st experience w/ okp freestyle.
I'll start!

I had just moved to Fort Belvoir VA and was bored at the j.o. I heard about the site from my Roots cd and checked it out. At the time there was a crew called the DPP DoemPome Poets and they were the illesst I've ever read. The Lillies were ridiculous too. Okayplayer B was the MOD.

I started posting my pieces right away and folk started feeling me after a while. These were some of the most serious critiques I'd ever seen. I was used to...man that was deep or awww.... so sweet and shyt like that. Here, they tore up my pieces and made me write.

Yeah, fond memories...

Next!

or early 2000 ....I was just looking....I was ripping cats on my block and I wanted to expand my battlin skills ....i posted as loesin or baypa for a longtime then amazin was born .....and all the amazin varitions

I'm a newbie. Not many experiences to talk about. But there's always constructive and positive and feedback.

i first came in here feb. 2000. My friend raquel told me about this site. At first i used to hang out in the chat room ( the dayz it used to be fun and had to wait until i think 7pm to get in) :)

i met some cool players polo, buspass, stayls, joevilla, ram, smarty, ect. joe villa was pressing me to hit the freestyle boardz. truthfully i didn't know how to write. some stuff i did was good and i had a lil fan base but the rest was trash lmao, hey thinking of shit to write is hard sometimes.

but anywayz i wish i could hit the rewind button and go back to 2000 when i first started when it used to be fun.

I first came here round 2000. I had just bought Common's latest offering. And I kept track 5 on constant repeat. 'The Light'. I saw that okayplayer logo on the back of the cd case, and one day at work I came and checked it out. I came to Freestyle, saw the brilliant writing, and got intimidated. lol I mean I knew I could write, but I was very raw, still am kinda. So I lurked. For five years. LOL Finally registered and it's been a great ride since. Met some real nice people of like minds. And now I'm expressing my deep love for music in my own way. I don't post as much here now, but I still read. I do need to reply more. Workinonit © Mr. Yancey. So yeah, um, that's it. Peace!

logged on: feb 2000
from: georgia
whereabouts: north carolina
how'd i find out about okayplayer: my best friend levy (SuperEgo)
fondest memory of free to date: when i shared the artist of the month when one of my favorite writers|best friend|sister, paperdollpoet.


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Pinwheels and HulaHoops|the book
http://www.lulu.com/content/132318
http://msmind.blogspot.com|the life

La magie, est dans ses yeux.
le prodige est dans son âme.

I guess i came a little bit behind tre...tell you the truth ...it's been so long...but anywho...i came in as vitamin k and then changed to invisible ink and that's the lon g and short of it (lol)...welcome all...miss k

that your was vitamin k!
lol
thats crazy....

and i was sitting in a car at a train station

i can't tell you what i was doing because i don't remember.

but whatever it was, it wasn't halal... or legal.

i was in college at the time; acting an ass, off my deen

it was raining and Colby Colb played this new roots song



na,

let me go back further.



i was standing with akil's little brother oustide of a masjid on Germantown Ave.

akil's little brother's name was ihsaan/nisaan/niran/idon'tremember

we were talking to abdul malik

'do you want more' was new and the city was buzzing.

malik was holding one tape in his hand. it was the dirty version.
we were YOUNG. and malik was debating on whether or not to give it to us.

nilaf/nico/nimrod/nitrogen started begging.



na,

let me go back further



i was at the Eid. i was standing beside my big brother Dawud who was talking to Umar. Umar had set up this little wooden table with a bunch of 'pass the popcorn' tapes on it. He was going on and on and on about them. my brother bought one.


flash forward:

my brother took it home and i listened

flash forward:

malik gave us the tape and i listened

flash forward:

Colby Colb played:

'okayplayer. com where ya game be at
e- me
and when i'm in your town come see me.

and i listened.

in all heterosexualness

i listened

fav. memory:

angieeeee was wearing a quote from my 2nd okp post in her sig.

i didn't even know who she was.

i didn't click around. i never went to G.D. i typed www.okayplayer.com in and went straight to the freestyle board because i thought malik and black thought wld be in here spitting. or ? wld be in here explaining his liner notes.

someone inbox'd me and showed me who she was.

i clicked the picture

and promptly joined the millions of nggs on her ovaries.

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ant, i loe this post family

man that brought back memories!

I wish I remembered.

I'm a fossil. That's really all that matters.

not 2 long ago
but i blow
call me gismo
orangegasm
if feed after midnight
i bring tail pipe heat
fast and fear read us i catch the beat
filling it wit limo zens
coming across as yo friend
thin flip illmatic
spasmatic
reaping havoc
in free form
transform watch out multi p storms
i shit thunder all over
fifty gun metal hummer
over and out
high way robbery
i spit holes threw dubar armorery
causint casualties
please i can't stop i flow off
the top of niagra
and can't jump
threw sea dews
battle and bruise fools
get stumped
by soulless timb boots
so i can;t feel when i snatch opp loot

But i didnt start posting until 05

From: La ALL DAY
Got on okp: From my sis
Wants: to pull a few ladies from gd on the low lol j/p

Giovanni had told me about this site when I was posting on another hip hop board. When I arrived I was the Black Widow and going through a dark period. Around 01' I changed to Winter Blaze and been that ever since...

Fondest memory- Well it was off the boards when Muse snuck my name on the list to do a spoken word piece at some spot up in Harlem. I was nervous as hell, but it was exciting as well..

Peace

Ms. Blaze

If fucking were graceful, I'd be your dancer

I have boarded the train to nowwhere waking up to find myself somewhere

I'm Banakayi/ Marijane as most of you know


I came here in 99 posting as Abysmal and switched it to my rap name of Marijane in like 01 or 02. I used to post EVERYDAY and I was heavily inspired by Toejam, Knowone, Delrica, Jai, and 3rdi RIP.


My first experience that made a name for me was prolly this piece i called the Aftermath. Like to here it here it goes....


360
like a cipher
Decipher the reason
There's a season
For bees and birds
And words of Sanity
Vanity will corrupt
and erupt the wrath of fate
It’s not the math, but the Aftermath
You’ll hate

I've lived, loved, and lost through these boards. And frankly i miss the communal comradory that existed here in times past.

Hope the legacy continues....

I remember posting in a cipher with Prolif (around the time he first started I think)and he was killin it.

I posted some stuff before that too.

I found out about this site through an article about The Roots in The Source magazine (I think it was the one with Q-Tip on the cover, cause I normally didn't fuck with The Source unless somebody I listened to was on the cover. Yes, I'm really that shallow.)

I looked-up the site, and immediately jumped into the freestyle forum. I began posting within 3 days of reading here, and my 1st reply was from some cat who re-worded my rhyme, mocking me. I almost didn't post anymore after that.

My fondest memory was the Wu Tang Triumph tribute, 9-10 guy collab. It's archived somewhere. Though I was the weakest link, I was geeked about sharing a piece with some of the illest, most respected members of the board.

My next fondest memories are all the times I made folks laugh when they actually felt more like beefin with one another.




"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
- Robert Frost

My crappy blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/eyes_of_mine/

Blind Eye Turning: My book
http://www.lulu.com/content/187759

My other crappy blog:
http://inevitabletruth.blogspot.com/

Found out about OKP like most people from a Roots CD. Lurked for a few weeks. Spent a lot of time in freestyle, saw tons of amazing poets...asighn4jane, rgv, Amina (MoonBeam), incogx, I could go on and on.... finally decided to post a piece... and it got DESTROYED!!! rgv and a few others tore it to pieces! It scared me away and I went into lurk mode for a few months. But it motivated me to work at getting better. A few months later I started posting again...and been here ever since.

you were rag doll?!

soul.

feminine alter ego....





I'm your toy....play with me...

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aw yous a bitch
when i first hit the sceen i was tearing fiens wanna bee kings
a new brain anurysm go and get them old scrpts
black
yukon
zin
and i eve trampled a few bitches in the process
man get grown stop the blue berry blues
shit this making me thristy

TE-TE
The End - To Everybody

You were alias???

I remember that name!

like, yo
yooooooooooooooooooooooooo

it was Christmas day.
I was only 15 and scared as hell to post anything. I lurked for a few weeks.
Then posted my first angsty poem about no one being free and got 6 replies (I was elated!).
I remember buggin out about words by rgv, paperdollpoet, delsbrothergeorge, presyzion,
blaksilence, foneticuss, ratpackslim, giovanni, aeon, and mindful, just to name a few.
The first cat I really vibed with was otto.
The first piece that went over well was a collection of eintous called My Brother.
I liked the "In your words" posts, taking lines from the board to construct a poem.
And I liked rgv's post where everybody could draw pictures for one another. Some of y'all did some surprisingly beautiful things.

soul.

i was seventeen
i went thru the chatroom
& amina suggested i post
i did

pretty much it
if we namin names
i know everybody on this post pretty much
& even everybody who aint postin to it

thass all
like, it went from postin
to folks havin chapbooks
n babies
n movin
n married

so, eh

as long as progress is happening

im glad for friends made
friends lost
all of it

it's all been an experience

The homie Onedrop put me on to this place. Pretty much I just came around here playin'...though in the process,some saw between the lines and knew I wasn't an "innanet rapper",heh heh...on the poetry side...I was like wow!©Pharaoh Monch...

I was blown away by some of these folks...be it emcee, poet, beatmaker...s'why I chronicle some from time to time...

<--get grown,bus!--


me and the fellas would converge and heat up some Hot Pockets in preparation for Rap City.� Roc

let's talk:
http://yukonmag.com

my uncles:
http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/9130/010vd.jpg

i guess arond 02 and 03 i would come in from time to time and read but not post. i lived in a diff city at the time and was circulating pretty heavy in the spoken word and poetry scene there. my friend chris of total experience(totalexperienceunlimited.com) put me on to okp.

late 04 i moved back to my home town where i found absolutely NO spoken word or poetry scene at all. poetry groups i had to choose from was the college kids or this over 50 group of white houseladies. i needed an outlet so i came here, registered, started posting in early 05.

fondest memories?...lif, blak...thanks to okp. friends indeed. reading all the fly poets and ill emcee. its been peace all the way around.