(The recently redesigned tribunal successful Oakland City Park wherever rapper Lil Baby is from successful Atlanta. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Bria Suggs)
Brian Wright and Desmond Attmore are the founders of Six Degrees, a originative selling bureau named aft the mentation that each radical are six societal connections distant from knowing 1 another.
The brace met astatine Morehouse College successful 2008 portion earning their Bachelor’s degrees. While successful college, the 2 worked connected a covering marque that Wright had started portion helium was successful precocious school.
After graduation successful 2013, Wright and Attmore sought retired their adjacent concern ventures. Brain went disconnected to signifier a narration with Mike Will Made It, a Grammy award-winning producer, successful the aboriginal phases of him starting his grounds label, EarDrummer Records.
Attmore helped co-manage rap duo Rae Sremmurd for 4 years. During this time, they did a batch of freelance work, creating content, putting unneurotic marque partnerships and more.
In 2018, they decided to compile their corporate cognition and acquisition to make Six Degrees.
“We specialize successful influential marketing, branding, graphics, originative content, arsenic good arsenic the biggest one, activation,” Wright said.
Foot Locker is simply a caller lawsuit of Six Degrees. Wright and Attmore worked with some Foot Locker’s squad and Atlanta rapper Lil Baby’s squad to renovate a hoops tribunal successful Oakland City, wherever Lil Baby is from.
“We knew that it was backmost to schoolhouse play and we wanted to bash thing that was antithetic and dope for the community,” Attmore said.
The time of the unveiling of the redesigned hoops tribunal was lone intended to beryllium a contented shoot, however, Lil Baby wanted to besides bash a giveaway for the kids successful the neighborhood. They handed retired truckloads of bicycles and had nutrient trucks for the community.
“[Lil Baby] was a large athletics to enactment with… for him to beryllium capable to make a abstraction wherever kids tin spell to and person a harmless haven. It was truly important to him,” Attmore said.
Attmore and Wright chose to spouse with Lil Baby connected this task due to the fact that he’s a fashionable rapper successful Atlanta and consistently gives backmost to the assemblage wherever helium grew up.
Since the task was popular, Six Degrees plans connected expanding it retired into a bid with different rappers giving backmost to their hometowns crossed the U.S.
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