{"id":483621,"date":"2020-05-11T13:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=483621"},"modified":"2020-05-11T13:42:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:42:01","slug":"lafayette-is-an-independent-artist-and-is-working-on-his-upcoming-debut-mixtape-project-a-time-to-be-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/lafayette-is-an-independent-artist-and-is-working-on-his-upcoming-debut-mixtape-project-a-time-to-be-alive_483621.html","title":{"rendered":"Lafayette is an independent artist and is working on his upcoming debut mixtape project &#8211; &#8220;A Time To Be Alive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/uploads\/a062afb7f71ad55caeda8f8986e1bfd4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/lafayettemusiq.us\/\">Lafayette Musiq<\/a> is the brand name for his music and sound, founded by Lafayette and Cierra Martin Williams.&nbsp; Lafayette Musiq is owned by their up and coming label, &#8220;The Martin Williams Group.&rdquo; Although Lafayette is an independent artist, he has a music distribution deal with Dolla 4 Dolla Entertainment and Empire Music of Universal Music Group. While Cierra Martin Williams manages Lafayette, she also manages 1 other act, her 11-year-old son Jai&rsquo;vaun Martin Williams, whose an exclusively signed model to L.A. models in Hollywood, California. She&rsquo;s also building a fashion empire with her Los Angeles clothing line, &ldquo;Guilty Pleasures,&rdquo; and Lafayette is a brand partner; so their work is not only limited to music but they are also doing fairly well in the clothing industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lafayette, though born in Akron, Oh, has now moved to Los Angeles County, California. The day he landed at this new place with a mic in one hand and a dream with a rhyme book in another, he took the rap world by storm. He was pretty awesome in his rapping skills that he would have easily turned heads towards him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">His fans know him by his actual first name and stage name &ldquo;Lafayette&rdquo; or by his brand name &ldquo;Lafayette Musiq.&rdquo; As an artist, he is versatile and promising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He plays not just hip hop and rap genres, but also other genres;&nbsp; his talent is very diversified. Some call him a &ldquo;hit maker.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">His musical journey started as a teenager. He would freestyle previously and then the more he practiced the better he became such that he started writing his own songs by the age of 18 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Music became a way for him to express himself. The more he let his inner emotions out, the better he performed and the more attention he gained. Now he has made it a practice to always write songs with catchy and quirky lines and hooks, which is how he landed his first music distribution deal with Dolla 4 Dolla Entertainment and Empire Music of Universal Music Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the brand name &ldquo;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/lafayette-duh-problem\">Lafayette Musiq<\/a>&rdquo;, Lafayette is working on his upcoming mixtape project &ldquo;A Time To Be Alive&rdquo;. This mixtape is produced by Cierra Martin Williams. She handpicked each song on the project to display Lafayette&rsquo;s versatility in the rap game. &ldquo;A Time To Be Alive&rdquo;, captures music from very relevant times and genres in music. The mixtape will be available on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/datpiff.com\/\">DatPiff.com<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/\">YouTube.com<\/a> with some singles off of the mixtape being available on SoundCloud, Spotify. Apple Music and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lafayette used this project to give a glimpse of his own life. He is also releasing his hit single &ldquo;Pretty Girls&rdquo; from his freshmen album &ldquo;You&rsquo;re More Than Welcome&rdquo;.&nbsp; &ldquo;My &ldquo;Pretty Girls&rdquo; single is about women feeling beautiful and empowered, and it&rsquo;s specifically about my love interest, at that point and time in my life&rdquo;, said Lafayette, in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tune in to Spotify, YouTube, and Soundcloud to listen to &ldquo;Pretty Girls&rdquo; by Lafayette Musiq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instagram: Lafayette Musiq&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Website: www.LafayetteMusiq.US<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spotify: Lafayette<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">SoundCloud: Lafayette Musiq<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">YouTube: Lafayette Musiq<\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/instagram.com\/We_are_glamrepublic\/_57674.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dolla 4 Dolla Ent<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Cierra Martin Williams (Management)<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=lafayette-is-an-independent-artist-and-is-working-on-his-upcoming-debut-mixtape-project-a-time-to-be-alive\" rel=\"nofollow\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Phone:<\/strong> (213)819-4934<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/We_are_glamrepublic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.instagram.com\/We_are_glamrepublic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"text\/html\" data=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/We_are_glamrepublic\/\" style=\"width:900px; height:400px;\"><\/object><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=lafayette-is-an-independent-artist-and-is-working-on-his-upcoming-debut-mixtape-project-a-time-to-be-alive\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lafayette Musiq is the brand name for his music and sound, founded by Lafayette and Cierra Martin Williams.&nbsp; Lafayette Musiq is owned by their up and coming label, &#8220;The Martin Williams Group.&rdquo; Although Lafayette is an independent artist, he has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/lafayette-is-an-independent-artist-and-is-working-on-his-upcoming-debut-mixtape-project-a-time-to-be-alive_483621.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Arts-Entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}