Okayplayer changed my life.
I was rocking with OKP since the early days with Angie (Stress) back when the site featured Flash animations. Glad to see how relevant the site still is to The Culture.
Finally! I've been waiting for this story for years.
Okayplayer’s message board was such an important part of my teen years. I miss reading the boondocks strip on the homepage
Congratulations on your 25th! I definitely had an account on there late '99/early '00. Wish I would of been more active on the site! Lot of legends had a presence on there before the fame! Salute!
MistaMeek was my username! OG charter member from the beginning! I was on there every day! Good times! 😊
People talk about the Blog Era and Soundcloud era, but the unsong eras of hip hop as far as community was the Forum and Messageboard Era, 2003-2008 before blogs really kicked off. On Smash, Okayplayer, Nas BBS, UGHH, SOHH, HipHopgame, ALLHiphop, SoundClick etc, and of course The Coli is probly the last remaining active vestiges of that era.
Happy Birthday Okayplayer
okayplayer was the future!
Circa 2000 - 05, I used to visit Okayplayer soley just to read the Boondocks strip that was at the top of the home page. This was probably 8 years before the Boondocks TV SHOW. Living in MS, this was the only way to read the comic strip in those days. Also, can we get a part 2? I saw all those question cards he was holding.
Finally! 👍🏿Player!
Midnight Marauder ©️ for life
Gratitude
Tanya Morgan was the shit !!!
Steel knuckles, the cast iron type break apparently. It needs to have the word LIBERATE engraved upon it ..pour son osti'd tete de Conquer.
Hiero was before all those yt ppl… jussayin
#thatsite
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NERL
Black planet created social media
MP3 Backup DJ 13 - AfterHours 2009 ua-cam.com/video/V-McndOrqrI/v-deo.htmlsi=5ZqGoC77ltN6I0XS
That first hour of intense dancing at the afterparty, lost n' found dance mixes ..this one had two, it came after several years of DJing ..the culmination of the many ways I mixed popular songs, for dancing, using the slow computer technology of the era (can hear some dropped samples years later, computer was processing at the maximum).
Yes you did it Questlove!!!🏆 🤴🏾🏆You deserve the crown 👑 and award for founding OKP 👸🏾👍🏾!!! OKP opened a lot of doors for a lot of people including myself. OKP was best guide to social media early in the game. For many OKP was a "college" for social media "knowledge" 😁!! Questo, you don't get no where near the credit that you deserve for what you do and have done. We gotta love you and this cannot be denied. Keep on bringing us the knowledge and the music!! Yes you are an Unsung Genius 🏆🤴🏾🏆🎶 🏆!! 👋🏾👸🏾!!!