Despite her massive responsibilities for pretty much everything that Chicagoans complain about on a daily basis, Laws, 32, refuses to be defined by her day job.
“I like to think I’m the best lyricist in the world,” Laws said, giggling. “I’m a Hyde Parker. We’re more connected to the whole hip-hop era when I grew up.”
Laws, who recently moved to the South Loop, has performed exactly one concert — if you call the 2013 Women’s Transportation Seminar a concert.
It was a short show: Laws busted just one rap, an introduction of the winner of the Rosa Parks Diversity Leadership Award, which Laws received in 2012.
“I got a whole room of engineers to give me the beat to ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ which was quite a feat because we know 90 percent of them never heard rap before,” Laws said.
Laws also has exactly one video under her belt, but we’ll get to that later.