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Tag: freestyle music

10 Songs Leading the Latin-Freestyle Resurgence

freestyle music has direct ties to the early rise of hip-hop. like hip-hop, the freestyle genre was led by creative…
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Posted on: April 21, 2022 Last updated on: April 23, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Giving Them Their Roses: A’LISA B

In 1983, Black pop/dance artist Shannon released the iconic “Let The Music Play.” It was a watershed moment in popular…
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Posted on: October 8, 2021 Last updated on: February 1, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

JOCELYN ENRIQUEZ

my love for jocelyn began on a hot summer night in 1994. my friend oscar and i were on our…
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Posted on: October 31, 2020 Last updated on: October 31, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

The Black History of Freestyle Music

the late great and house music pioneer, dj frankie knuckles, once said that house was disco’s revenge. and he wasn’t…
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Posted on: August 5, 2020 Last updated on: August 5, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

NAYOBE

if you ask the causal freestyle music listener who the “queen of freestyle” is, you may get a few different answers.…
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Posted on: May 7, 2020 Last updated on: August 4, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

SHANNON

as a kid in the early half of the the 1980′s, i’d watch as my mother and her gay friends shuffle…
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Posted on: February 9, 2019 Last updated on: August 7, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
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