Event Recap: MC Lyte Addresses Recording Grads

At our latest graduation ceramony, Recording Arts grads received a special keynote speech from MC Lyte, one of the most prominent women in Hip Hop and a long-time supporter of The Los Angeles Film School.
MC Lyte started her speech by acknowledging the importance of Graduation Day for both graduates and their families in the audience: “This is a magical situation, don’t forget that.”
MC Lyte gained fame in the late-1980s, becoming the first solo female rapper to release a full album (1988’s critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock). She reflected on the Recording Students’ hard work to get to this point, as well as the work that awaits them: “It didn’t happen by chance,” she said, “you’ve all come here to prepare yourselves to go into the world and excercise everything that you’ve been taught. And now you get to.”
She encouraged graduates to stay humble: “You can be good, but good is not good enough. You have to be great. Personality matters in the music industry, so be nice to everyone.”
According to Lyte, the proffesional goal as a recording engineer should be to change things, “Change the landscape of music, change the way people listen to music,” she urged.
She encouraged students to really utilize the incredible power that music has to offer, telling them to “Bring out things in your music that people were otherwise uninterested in. Make them listen.”