Mike Lowrey’s Bastard Son

Bun is 1000% right. Every Houston artist that got signed in that 04-06 wave were selling HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF RECORDS in this region before the masses caught them. “Already platinum” wasn’t just an album name. Slim was selling records. Real tangible records Flip, Paul, Chamillionaire, Mike jones were selling RECORDS. Everybody but Paul had a label with artists signed to them before the companies even made their way here. Yes a label wants a piece of that. KP was a label head at Arista bc LA Reid took over when the label pushed Clive out, and he made JD head of black music, KP head of A&R, and B Cox under him. They had the 2 biggest acts in black music at the time. usher, and OutKast. So yeah. They sign what they understand. They also signed niggas that have HITS or a ton of motion they can work with. Face was head of def jam south and still couldn’t get guys signed bc the heads at def jam didn’t sign off on it. He was finally able to get ludacris out of that deal. But all the other southern artists he brought got passed on Bun knows this fully. He lived it. He saw the shift. He predates nearly everyone in south east Texas except rap-a-lot