2012 Album Release

A former pro football linebacker, high school teacher/coach, gold/silver/rare coin broker, and  brilliant lyricist Derron Griffin is a proven artist, with the 2004 Album “Renegade Redneck Rapper” to his credit. The album’s success surprised many in the music business, thanks solely to Griff’s never give up attitude, his stubborn refusal to conform or comply with traditional music industry norms for marketing promotion and distribution, and  2 years of working from early morning till very late at night with no days off or vacations. Then Griff left the music business to try his hand in the business world. After a successful run in the fitness center industry and then in the precious metals and rare coin industry, Carl Derron Griffin was pulled back into the work he had come to love, the music business, only this next project would have much bigger ambitions than his first, and he knew for this to happen he would be needing a few friends to join him. Having enjoyed the slow paced and relaxing environs of his hometown of Beaumont Texas again for a few years, he sensed that to find  those new friends he would need in order to help him create something very big and special in the American Music Industry he would need to travel west. But only one hour west to the 4th largest US City, the Oil and Gas Capital of the world, and where all US space missions have always been controlled. Houston Texas. He knew his help was waiting for him in Houston, and the road map to each lay in the classified lines of the Greensheet Newspaper’s help wanted section. First Griff found Brian Covington’s ad for salesmen and managers in Pasadena Texas. After becoming acquainted in a huge job interview the men quickly discovered they shared a common passion– music, and in particular rap music. Griff had the talent for song writing, but he found in Brian the man who could mix music and create beats like a wizard. Now they needed a studio to work in, and Griff knew he was going to need some help this time around in the music management and promotion end of the business: he knew he couldn’t work 22 hours a day for 2 years straight again. In addition the business had quickly become a largely computer and internet based promotion marketing and distribution business. So God pointed him to John Merritt’s Fundraising Center help wanted ad in yes, the Greensheet.  Griffin called Merritt and they talked for 20 minutes and exchanged phone numbers. And a month later after more than 100 phone calls Griff was finally sure he had found his guy. Or at least he was sure his fate was to go meet this Tennessee born Russian speaking career promoter and fund raiser for non-profit organizations who had experienced a spiritual awakening a few years earlier and would round out the team. Of course Merritt had no idea he would soon be working in the music business. Griff never mentioned that he was a rapper. But it turned out that John Merritt happened to have 2 nice homes on a quiet street in the front end of Kingwood Texas, a forested suburb just north of Houston and one of those homes, vacant at the time, would soon become the location where Griff’s new dream would become reality.