Eric (Young Loony) Crawford, Is a 20 year old songwriter, arranger & rapper...hauling from New Orleans. LA. Loony has been in the music world since birth. He started performing in front of family, like most kids but quickly moved to any open mike venu available. Spitting over other artists songs in talent shows boost his confidence. At the age of 11, he started to write his own songs. Young Loony quotes he really didnt find himself until he was placed in the position he wasnt ready for, which means he really didnt start to developed a skill until he found out what he he was really suppose to say & talk about.At the age of 14 he started off hitting the rap scene by battling other opponents over the radio station Q93 "9 O' CLOCK PROPS" in New Orleans. Altogether hes been in a total of 45 battles and his record stood 45-1..WITH 1 DRAW. Loony quotes: By me battling over the radio it taught me a lot and it also gave me my lil swager, ya digg. During his 10th grade year of High School, Loony was noticed rapping in the hallways OF SARH T. REED by a Television promoter named Ja-Bo. He was invited to come on a local Television show named Hip Hop & Fashion, to do a live performance. Loony stated that: Since it was his first time on television, he was a little nervous, but he still handled his business, Ya Kno. The television show is what really got Young Loonys name floating in the air AROUND THE CITY, THROUGH OUT LOUISIANA & TEXAS. It gave him a lot of exposure, it kind of help me get my foot in the door he quoted.After his 3rd performance on the show, Loony to get all sorts of phone calls from local record labels trying o sign him. He messed around with a few, couple of majiors, but didnt sign with any!! Loony quoted It felt like they were trying to rape me because I was young, kno wat i saying... & I didnt really know the business side as much as I has grown to kno now!Currently SINCE MID O6' LOON HAS been doing ah little "side" GHOST WRITTING some majior artist under***** WARNER BRO./ATLANTIC RECORDS******* but no type singing or recording deal WASNT involed! Since then he has opened up for plenty majior act's and have sold over 40,000 mixtape units from the VOL.1 "NEW" NEW ORLEANS FEAT. BATON ROUGE'S DJ SCRAP!!! HE'S CURRENTLY WORKING ON HIS DEBUT ALBUM PROJECT WITH BIG DAWG RECORDINGS TITLED..."DA EAST LANDLORD" & HIS VOL. 2 & 3 MIXTAPE..."NEW ORLEANCIA" (AH HOOD IN HELL) WITH DJ SMALLZ SET TO BE RELEASED JULY 08' !!!!!
