Fade
The Beat Strangler
Administrator
illest o.g.
I'll probably post something like this each year from now on lol.
Happy ILL Day!
I don't want to get all sentimental but when the server went down for a bit today, it just hit me that yeah - it's been 22 years of IllMuzik! October of 2000 is when it all started and we're still here.
I never imagined this is how it would turn out because originally I just wanted to create a forum for JUST beat makers. At the time there were Hip Hop forums that maybe had a beat maker section, and none of them were moderated much. I was just a couple of years into making websites so I thought, why not?
At first I couldn't come up with a name so I was just throwing them out there like "becreative" or "beatmusic", etc. Around that time I had recently scratched LL Cool J's vocals in one of his songs where he says "ILL". Then I just brainstormed and eventually landed on "ILL MUSIC" but "music" seemed bland so I put the z and the k. Plus saying it as one word just rolls off the tongue easily.
I've had a lot of ups and downs (mainly downs) over the years in my personal life so that's one of the reasons why I've always held on to ILL. It's my life's work. This is why I take a lot of pride in all the work I do on here plus I appreciate all of you that visit here regularly and compete in the battles. It's also why I don't take kindly to people that want to disrupt this amazing thing we have going on here. I don't take banning lightly, so if someone gets banned it's for a very good reason. All I've ever asked for is respect. In return I'll respect you back.
As far as the battles, we have the longest-running online (offline too I think!) beat battles of all time. Beat This! in 2003 then followed by Battle That! It's crazy to think about it. I've seen countless real world, in person beat battles come and go. I've also seen a lot of beat making websites come and go. Social media really kicked a lot of forums in the balls back around 2009 and many didn't recover and closed up shop.
But IllMuzik is still here.
(real life IllMuzik meetup):
Happy ILL Day!
I don't want to get all sentimental but when the server went down for a bit today, it just hit me that yeah - it's been 22 years of IllMuzik! October of 2000 is when it all started and we're still here.
I never imagined this is how it would turn out because originally I just wanted to create a forum for JUST beat makers. At the time there were Hip Hop forums that maybe had a beat maker section, and none of them were moderated much. I was just a couple of years into making websites so I thought, why not?
At first I couldn't come up with a name so I was just throwing them out there like "becreative" or "beatmusic", etc. Around that time I had recently scratched LL Cool J's vocals in one of his songs where he says "ILL". Then I just brainstormed and eventually landed on "ILL MUSIC" but "music" seemed bland so I put the z and the k. Plus saying it as one word just rolls off the tongue easily.
I've had a lot of ups and downs (mainly downs) over the years in my personal life so that's one of the reasons why I've always held on to ILL. It's my life's work. This is why I take a lot of pride in all the work I do on here plus I appreciate all of you that visit here regularly and compete in the battles. It's also why I don't take kindly to people that want to disrupt this amazing thing we have going on here. I don't take banning lightly, so if someone gets banned it's for a very good reason. All I've ever asked for is respect. In return I'll respect you back.
As far as the battles, we have the longest-running online (offline too I think!) beat battles of all time. Beat This! in 2003 then followed by Battle That! It's crazy to think about it. I've seen countless real world, in person beat battles come and go. I've also seen a lot of beat making websites come and go. Social media really kicked a lot of forums in the balls back around 2009 and many didn't recover and closed up shop.
But IllMuzik is still here.
(real life IllMuzik meetup):
