Ahh, its been over a year since it all started. Back then I was a unknown site owner by the name of Streets. My site fortminorbunker had just gotten a hella cool make over. One day I received an AIM from another site owner by the name of Spin Doctor. He was asking me about my site and if I had plans to get the a real domain name and if I wanted him to host it on his server. I declined. He kept at it for some time and I still declined. After a few times of him asking me, I finally asked if he needed a layout. He said yes, so I told him i would make him one (mind you not a cool one like mine but whatever he wanted). I joined the forum, and set out to make the site he said he wanted(he linked me to a g-unit site and said i want the layout to look like this right here but FMW). I had no clue that I was made a supermod, and my school(college baby yeah!) got a bit crazy, so i went MIA for a bit. When i finally did sign on, I was noticed that I was a supermod. So I went to work. J was one of the first people I actually talked to. He was a mod, and at the time the only one. He was quick to listen to what I had to say and took advice when I gave it. Spin started making no appearance on the forum, so one day, I told him that we needed a bunch of stuff and five minutes later BOOM I am an Admin. He told me to run the site the way I saw fit, and he trusted my judgement. Now to say I was in shock was like sooooooooo not true. I wasnt looking for admin position it was given too me. So I became the main active admin on FMW.

Then Liam(Shay) was added as admin one day while I was at school. He made some hella cool changes and adds on the site, but I had no clue who he was and why he was on the site. We beefed for the longest. He told me I over babied the users and I believe I said he was a Jackass. I tried to talk to Spin but he told me, Liam is my main man, I trust his choices. So I am having issues with someone of the staff and the site owner wasnt going to do crap about it. I was soo close to quitting. J had also gotten promoted to SMod and he noticed the tension between Liam and I. We never made it seen on the MB because we were better then that but believe me, there were days, I wanted to go through the computer and strangle him. I was soo ticked with Spin I was threatening to quit the site. I mean how could I work with someone who had Spin’s approval for anything his heart wanted to do and I couldnt even get a “we will talk this out as a team” from the owner. I took the issue in my own hands and Liam and I settled our issues. We worked great with each other then, he had his fall out with Spin. Azk was inbetween SMod and leaving and soon J had been promoted to Admin. He made Nox Smod and things seem to work until he got into a beef with a nother member and “left”. By this time, I was highly stressed. Spin had gotten to the point where he was never around for me to ask him about the site and he avoided me for the longest, I was soo mad, I was feelin hate towards the site, so i made the decision that I was going to leave. J refused for me to leave. LMAO now not that he could make that choice for me, but he told me that I needed to take time away and get my head together. So I was going to take two weeks off. Sadly those two weeks turned to 3 weeks because my beloved dog Ginger passed away in my arms during that time, and I just couldn’t bring myself to be active. When I finally did come back, I was still admin, and the site was going through change. Nox was made admin and they were getting ready to change FMW to MachineShopSpot. I sat back and let them do their thing. My named had changed from Thebytchfit to thepickletickler back to TheBytchfit .Now that I think about it, I really didn’t do much for the change. I kept the forums clean to help who ever was the smod at the time and the boys made the site all cool and stuff. We were content. Spin had pretty much stopped showing up on the site because his other site was his main focus so we had all the control. We had our first annual site award polls goin and we were content. My name finally changed to Darth Peanut. However a few months later something happened we had no clue was brewing.

One day, I was at home coming to log in when the site no longer loaded. At first I thought it was my connection. But I had a perfect connection and when i tried again, the site didnt load. I was freaking out. I didn’t know if we had gotten shut down by Warner for something stupid, or if we had crashed. When I got a hold of J needless to say, he was mad and so was Nox. We were thrown in the middle of a fall out between our site owner and the server host. We suffered for it. The server host was nice enough to let us run the site under a few rules and we tried to look at other options before Spin decided to show us that he was an asshole and have our site redirect to another new site. We had alot of words for him and he aimed me before I found out what was going on. Weird. He avoided me for the longest then out of no where messages me and shuts us down without telling us. He made it on a list I have that no one ever gets off of. Along with that, we had do do something quick. We were left with a pile of issues in regards to the site and through the combined efforts of myself and some nice donors, we got a new site thus LPP being born. I offically and finally decided that Darth Peanut would be my name and I’ve stuck to it. It was a rough start. We lost a lot of members when the site changed. People going to MachineShopSpot, thought we had changed our name to HipHopSphere and was joining the site there. It was depressing but we knew we would get over that. Besides, Spin was using OUR name to get people to go to the site. how sad is he?

It has been a long road. Over a year in the making. I must say, I wouldn’t change any of the Admins. I work well with them, despite that I am the only female between us. It takes alot for me not to like a person, and you really have to do something to make me irked. After reading J’s post, I felt the need to post my side of how it came to be and how i became admin. A girl named Streets having some idiot kid want to mack my site as his own. Now I’m Darth Peanut, nearing 21 still admin and not as hands one. Though I do host some of our contests. I still not as hands on but who knows.

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