GLOBAL UPDATE: Laws

Laws is doing big things. Since we last, the Florida-based emcee has been steady on his grind, and his hard work is definitely paying off. Yesterday it was announced that Laws was chosen as one of the emcees to participate in the cipher at this year's BET Hip-Hop Awards. We got a chance to chop it up with Laws a while back, check out what he had to say!

Global Grind: Our readers are already familiar with you for the most part, as we featured you as a part of our Global Radar series a while back, but for those that aren't could you just introduce yourself?

Laws: Sure. My name is Laws, I'm am emcee from Spring Hill, Florida, and I represent Fam 4 and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League. That's who I am.

GG: How did you hook up with J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League?Laws: I came up as a battle emcee in Florida, and through all of the underground stuff I did they had heard about me. We started working together on a project in early 2008, and by May 2009 we put out a record called Your Future Favorite Rapper, it was a mixtape, and we wind up getting signed off of that.

GG:  You say you started off as a battle rapper, who did you look up to in that scene when you were on the come up?Laws: As far as battlers, I used to look up to, of course, Eminem. I liked Ju-Ice, he was nice. Sage Francis was a really dope battler. Brother Ali is a dope battler. A lot of those Rhymesayers cats from Minnesota, I look up to them a lot as far as a battle. When I first started rapping I looked up to - you know what CD I was listening to a lot at that time? Soundbombing 2. It was a mixtape that Rawkus Records put out that had what I thought was Eminem at his peak. I was into Em, Royce Da 5'9, Jay-Z, Nas, Big Pun. The lyrical cats that could write  a song. Those are my favorites.