Shawty Lo’s household orchestrates a four-day Atlanta celebration honoring the late snap music pioneer and his lasting influence on Hip-Hop.

Shawty Lo Jr. is bringing the entire metropolis collectively this weekend to honor his father’s legacy with a four-day celebration that’s received Atlanta transferring.

Down 4 Lo Week kicked off on Thursday (March 19) and runs by way of March 22, that includes occasions that’ll maintain the tradition alive and the neighborhood linked.

In line with Atlanta Information First, Lo Jr. and his household are placing collectively to ensure everyone remembers what his pops meant to town.

“Down For A Lo Week actually simply got here from my pops. His day was arising, and I needed to have a approach to rejoice him and honor him. So I known as two members from my crew. I used to be like, ‘hey, we must always do one thing for my dad.’ And one particular person mentioned my dad [was] the kind of particular person, he would celebration for the entire week or the entire month for his day. And we got here up with Down For A Low Week.”

A candlelight vigil at Membership Essential on Hollowell is the place it began, as a tribute to a person who constructed a motion that also echoes by way of the streets right now.

Shawty Lo handed away in 2016 in a automobile crash, however his affect on snap music and Atlanta Hip-Hop stays untouchable.

He was a founding member of D4L, the group that gave the world “Laffy Taffy,” a observe that topped the Billboard Sizzling 100 in 2005 and have become a cultural second.

Past the hits, he was recognized for bringing neighborhoods collectively and displaying youthful artists methods to keep linked to their roots whereas constructing one thing greater.

Down 4 Lo Week is proof that his legacy isn’t fading, it’s rising. The household’s ensuring that yearly, Atlanta stops to recollect what Shawty Lo constructed.

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