Letter To #LawtownLyricists (Summer 2014)

 

Dear Aspiring MCs/Artists (Fellow Crew Members and Fans),

Your nice! Your rare sound is comparable to nobody in the game! Understand The City, State, Nation and The Game has been watching, willing and READY for a new movement in music. With over 30 years of continued struggle and severe setbacks for those with the game inches away from their fingertips its all happened for a reason and as a result built up to a summer filled with opportunity, at YOUR finger tips. Summer 2014, at YOUR finger tips, WRITING.....HIT records, not DISS RECORDS all summer, not TYPING threats and insults on Facebook comments or PRESSING the goons button...RNS. You are in the era where you don't need a major label to get a major buzz going but you do need a major label to make you a 100,000+ selling recording artist. RECORDING artist, means Paid Studio Time (Not Out of Pocket), a Single(s) or Album Budget and/or Marketing/Advertising Budget. NO MC/Artist has ever achieved that level of success from this city, yet. This summer is a major step in that direction but violence is not the answer! Do YOU want to possibly make a living off of making music? Violence is not the answer. Do you really love the game and respect the culture/4 elements (MCing, DJing, Dancing and Graphics) it was built off of  and the effect its had on YOUR life. Then you definitely know, violence is not the answer! Hip Hop was a culture created to stop violence. Understand, you all put yourselves in the position you want to be in, and all of you are there RIGHT NOW so don't fuck up what y'all be working so hard for. This is not to one specific MC/Artist but ALL of you. Know that one of you is not bigger than the whole music movement as a whole and the positive opportunities everyone can EAT from but you are the key. I've known many of you since we were kids, personally before you were rappers and I'm glad to see many you have potential careers in this game. Your dreams of making it big will get closer with every move you make, unless you make that one wrong move that will erase that dream you built, forever. Carry yourself like a brand, an enterprise whose potential is worth more than some petty rap beef,  because you are and the game is, much bigger.

Hip Hop Is Ours If You Really Want It,

 

Hip Hop's Pee Wee Kirkland