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Salute namix & GOW.
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Real shit ... Namix doesn't just mix names he speaks truth
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Notice how Death suddenly disappears when GoW returns?
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Haha namix the typa dude to talk about text battling in a job interview.
I respect it though. Name names homie |
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I've been on these sites since 2000. The discussion forums always dominated, though sometimes they were mislabeled "Emcee Hookups" or shit like that.
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I have no doubt that the 500-plus text rap verses I've written in my life have improved my writing. And I write for a living.
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there have been trolls since before there were even forums anyone around to see a 'text album' should be aware now that those were actually just elaborate trolls of the past |
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nice thread.
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I owned and ran a moderately successful text site in 2000 that didn't even have a discussion or emcee hookup forum. it was dwarfed by the sites you named but it had around a 100 loyal members that posted about thirty OM verses a day. we used to all talk through AIM or chat rooms. ok enough reminiscing fuck you all
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96 to around 2000, you're pretty much right Mike. We all just wrote rhymes. Around 99, at least on Sethros, we got a "discussion board", if you could call it that. Once Sethros died and UPN was formed - and I think some old ass version of vB was used, there was a real discussion board and eventually .. around where I think Diode was talking about in this thread - is when just writing rhymes all the time died off a bit.
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Not you: "There was a time when there were more writers than trolls." Had you said the later, I would have agreed. But the former was never true at any of the major text sites. But also, yes, there were trolls forever throughout the entire Internet. There were biters. There were hate votes. There were ignorant motherfuckers. There were people putting on acts. Some sites (Rap Music, Rap Battles) had more than others (RhymeNReason, Mr. Blunt). But trolls are forever.
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i been trolling since usenet/google groups, before i even knew what a forum was
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That's for damn sure.^
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me:right trap, diode and me have been doing this alot longer than you. our memory goes back a bit further young man. where were you posting in 96?
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Diode said 2003 to 2007.
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that was the peak of internet rap content, yes.
everything before that didn't really even have an active discussion board
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yes there was, mainly hiphop discussion, but the boards i was at did and that was at latest early 2002
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i said active. as in the primary source of content.
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I definitely remember active discussion boards at every site I went to by 2000. In some cases, they were mislabeled.
It makes a lot of sense that back in 1998 things were more focused on the writing. Communities were both smaller and less personal. Plus the boards were more streamlined, without subforums. |
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