Misfit Tunes The Magazine January 2015 | Page 13

O KNOW What are your influences? growin up in dc, my struggle, my mental strength which allowed me to overcome many obstacles, my children & my fallen souljaz, pretty much my life & everything I’ve been thru ive been thru / still goin thru - and I truly hope I can help them get thru their trails & triubulations, plus im very talented with my words. How many live performances have you done? I done performed so much, How did you come up with I cant even give you a numyour stage name? ber... my best performance in dc everybody calls everywas when I was personally body slim, plus im a slim asked by shyglizzy to perform build dude, and my real name at his show at Club Love, slim tristan, but the whole it was Live & the crowd “slim tristan “ originated showed me major love... my while I was doin time in worst performance was my federal prison, I was rappin first performance because noon the yard one day and one body knew me, they jus was of the homies said “that nigstanding there lookin at me... ga slim tristan be rappin like what I learned from that pershit” formance was - if I shine hard I gotta grind hard....I used it If you were not making music as motivation.... what would you be doing? 9 times out of 10 - I would be Do you love your music? knee deep in the streets, back I absolutely love my music in prison, or dead to be honest 100% because its me 100%, and I say that because I been no cut cards at all, and I love in the streets my whole life, myself 100%, every morning been in & out of jail since I I look in the mirror and say to was 12, and in these weaked myself “ you the choosen one streets its only two outcomes who has sacrifed & who is “prison or death” gonna get your family, kids, love ones out the slums.. I Why are you a performer? sacrificed blood, sweat, tears, because I have a helluva story freedom,and my life in orto tell, and its alot of ppl who der to give the massives my been thru or is goin thru what story... www.MisfitTunes.com What does your lyrics say about you/your character? im real, im rapping about my life, its my reality, its my pain my struggle, I really been in the streets & lived that life, Im the voice of the streets, the voice of the trouble youth, Im motivational, im strong, im a warrior, etc.... How would you describe your sound/music? I call / consider my music “ReaLLive Nigga Poetry 100% ~ Nuffin Less” because its 100% facts, its more like street poetry transformed into rhymes, I paint vivid pictures... it has a DC sound... people say it has a real feeling like “scarface & yo gotti & 2pac” with potent lyrics & wordplay like T.I - Jadakiss MeekMill... What is your most recent project? .I Dropped My “Fame Fortunes & Felonies” mixtape on halloween 2014 which included 25 tracks What are your goals? as far as music, I wanna be known as one of the greatest who has ever touched a mic, I wanna touch the world like 2pac, but I wanna dominate the game like Jay-Z 13