Point of No Return Part 2
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
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The Rise and Fall of Freestyle
A medley of 270's classic rock staples, Peter Frampton's Baby I Love Your Way, and Leonard Skinner's Free Bird mashed together into a freestyle ballad. But again, despite the song's popularity in cities like Miami, Will T'Power couldn't crack the national top 40. The other problem plaguing freestyle toward the end of the 80s was competition. In the category of pop friendly blends of dance and hip hop, freestyle no longer had the field to itself.
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