On 9/26/10, Lil Hot sent out a tweet to followers:
As many followers anxiously awaited a DM from the Atlanta based rapper, on a few were privilaged enough to get the invite. Even though that did receive the invite had no idea what the gathering would entail. No hints of attire, subject, or contact info was givin: only a hotel location with the instructions that once you arrived at the location, you were to call and someone would come to the lobby to get you.@TheRealLilHot LIL HOTLIL HOT @TheRealLilhot is HAVING a PRIVATE TWITTER NETWORKING Gathering 2nite @ a DISCLOSED LOCATION...IF u don't get A DM u are not Invited
The gathering turned out to be a mixer between the execs and artists from Money By Da Pound Records and execs and artists from New Money Ent, as well as special invitees from Lil Hot himself. Towards the end of the mixer, Lil Hot got everyone's attention (sporting his new MBP Records Chain) and had the room to come to order so that business could begin.
He first had the attendees to gather around, the New Money and Money By Da Pound execs situated at the front of the room. He instructed everyone to introduce themselves (who they were and what they did). The execs did the same. And then the reason for the gathering was revealed. Lil Hot explained that he wanted his new team to meet the people that had been with him and who had shown true loyalty and support...and that these were the people that he would be hiring as his official staff. As he called each staff member (some new, some old) to the center of the room, he had them give more formal details of what exactly they did, and he basically offered them the position (whatever that was). No one refused his offers. Everyone was indeed shocked, because it was never revealed that by attending this gathering, key players there had made the final cut. Among the positions given were Publicist, Model Firm, Camera Man, Videographer, Tour DJ, Marketing & Promotions, Street Team, and a few others.
And, of course, other invitees were in attendance, those whom Lil Hot wanted to share in his celebration-the ones who are considered close friends and network partners. Select Media was also in attendance.
You will see a lot of new and old faces for the new #TeamLilHot . For those who are on the new #TeamLilHot staff (including Da Publicist @AtticaLundy and @CelebStatus_PR , PBrown @StreetTalkCEO , DJ @Swampizzo , @BagBoiPromo , Peaches (Irma Thompson, Manager of #EAModels) @SandyBeach63 , Cake @EatTheCake , and a few others) the invite was worth accepting. For those who were invited and chose not to attend, an opportunity was missed but there were no hard feelings. This was just one of those occasions where if "you snooze,you lose". Lil Hot tweeted after the event was over:
And he did...he reached out to those who he felt worthy of extending an official job that came with a budget (PAID EMPLOYMENT) and it was one of those times where you had to be there in order to "get the gig". For some time now, he's been tweeting "I got options". Now we know what that means.If I reached out to u today and you MISSED The meeting..... Remember I did my part #MovingOn
#Salute to the NEW New Money Ent "family" and Money By Da Pound Records, and an extra special #BOSS #SALUTE to the man who made it possible, LIL HOT DA MONEY MAN ( @TheRealLilHot ), the label that pays me.
