Killer Virus Records was officially launched in 2006 but its genesis was actually a
few years earlier when a high school student named Carl McAfee formed what would
eventually grow into a highly successful record label. "My teacher asked everybody
what they wanted to be when they grow up. Everybody else said they wanted to be
a lawyer, doctor, firefighter, everyday normal stuff. I told my teacher I wanted to be a
rapper. She called my mom and told her that she needed to talk to me because being a
rapper is not realistic. That day I came up with Killer Virus Records and ever since then
I stuck with that name."

In the early days of Killer Virus, McAfee had 10 kids from his high school signed to the
label and even though the label has grown and McAfee has learned a lot more about
the music industry since then, the founding mission of the label has stayed intact.

"The vision of KV is to be one of the biggest digital labels in the world and to give artists
an opportunity to