BNG MAG® July 2015 (Vol.-2/Iss.-1) | Page 11

MICHAEL ARISTOTLE Where did you get the name “Michael Aristotle” from? Well, my stage name used to be Y.Teezy, and in the summer of 2012 I would kick it with this girl I use to have a crush on in my dad’s car in her driveway every time she came home from college. We would play all the kanye west albums, which led to the next day of her saying on twitter she got her nickname from this kanye west name generator. So, I saw the name generator and put my name in and I got “Malcolm Aristotle” but I wanted to flip the Malcolm to “Michael” because it stuck to me more. It was just a nickname ‘til all my friends begged me to use that as a stage name [laughs] now here we are, Michael Aristotle.