Today we’d like to introduce you to LaLo Towers.
Hi LaLo, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
As far as the music goes, the very beginning was when my godbrother introduced me to recording on garage band in middle school. Before that, I always dug music but never really was exposed to anything like that before then. We laid down a few tracks nothing serious, actually didn’t start pursuing it for another six years or so. In 2010 after a night in the drunk tank, I went to Best Buy and bought a USB mic, set up shop in the bricks and started recording over beats that were popular at the time. A month and a half later, I pressed up 100 copies of Approach with Caution definitely not my best work but everyone starts somewhere. From there, I set out to provide a better quality product so I aimlessly went from home studio to home studio that were usually run out of traps in and around my hometown. Honestly for the longest there was no plan I was just dropping records and features eventually dropping my first music video Johnny Cash Swagg Feat Yung Heze in 2012. By then, I had found a spot up the street from where I grew up, the line between the music and the trap was blurred and there was never a lack of distractions.
Regardless of what I was getting into or how throwed off I was one thing persisted I kept releasing music. In hindsight, I was able to leave breadcrumbs of my state of mind over all of these years. Roughly four years into this chapter of my life on father’s day 2016 my father committed suicide, I mention this not for sympathy but because it marked a major turning point in my life. Shortly after my girlfriend of two years and I get married, shortly after that we find out she’s pregnant. All three events provide a reality check that I had to cash, no question I was processing a lot in those six months. At that point, there was an internal struggle happening inside me, stay where I’m at and keep wasting time or make a change even if it meant I had to separate myself from anything and anyone that I felt wasn’t helping me move towards my goals. By the time my daughter was born, I had burned the majority of the bridges I had built, it seemed like once I switched my focus to doing what’s best for me everybody’s energy shifted as well. Things were definitely not what they seemed whether it was that I wanted all of us to make it, the lack of sobriety, or both. I’ll be the first to admit it wasn’t easy, I mean these was the bros, the one’s that accepted me when I was pulling up to spots on my own, or maybe in my effort to fit in, it was all in my head.
Nonetheless I quickly shook that sh*t off. I mean I saw my father with a hole in is temple put there by him and the fact that we didn’t have the best relationship didn’t make it hurt any less. So from there, I kept fine-tuning my sound then the pandemic hits. I now have a lot of time and a lot of bottled up sh*t to deal with that I was avoiding which turned into a lot of music. 12 of those songs were given music videos and I dropped 1 a month over 12 months. Jump to Mid 2021, its been 11 years and I’m still in Port Arthur and I felt I had nothing to show for it honestly, I felt stuck. I sit down with my wife and express to her that I feel the need to get out and that come the new year, we’d be living in Austin. I was always drawn to the city having visited it many times over the years. Fast forward to the present. I’ve been here for one month and four days and I’m 16 open mics in have plenty more that I’m looking forward to. As of right now, I hope the takeaway is to never give up and keep finding ways to make it through whatever is thrown in our way; it’s not easy but it is possible. I’d like to say thank you for this opportunity, all the ones that I’ve had and all that are coming my way.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Definitely not for starters going down this road to begin with was never the ideal choice. Also didn’t have much freedom growing up so when I decided to start f*cking up, for lack of a better term, I had to learn the hard way. Had a few run ins with the laws, overnights in jail, many years on papers, lack of sobriety, jumping from job to job and couch to couch, amongst other things that I mentioned in my previous answer. Thankfully I’m still here 50 lbs lighter and sober.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
My foundation is in hip hop/rap, I take pride in being able to say that I’ve wrote or freestyled every bar that I’ve ever recorded. What I’m known for? I guess that’d depend on who you ask. What I specialize in is giving you pieces of me and moments of my life. My music ranges from Bars with no hook to melodic and I don’t know what genre to put it under when I release it to everything in between.
What’s next?
My plans are to scale my wife and I’s company and to raise my daughter in a much more stable environment that I was, I am for sure looking forward to that. To seeing my sister and mother graduate college, to seeing my nieces and nephews grow up. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say that one of my main goals is to make sure I do everything in my power to see this music thing through. Yes for the bag but even more for me cause music has been there when no one else was. It’s my therapy and it helps me keep my sanity its been what I’ve been committed to for the longest part of my life.
Contact Info:
- Email: lalotowersbooking@gmail.com
- Website: https://linktr.ee/LaLo88Towers
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_l88t_/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialLaLoTowers/
- Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/_lalotowers_
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8A_npiNCLqB6zTefdYhCeA
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1tyB8QynrQTzOIFB5CpqtL?si=StZxxBFQR02XkJNRqSpX1A&nd=1
Image Credits
@whosmattrush @official_rmc @natejonesmedia_ @yoitssebo
