Misfit Tunes The Magazine January 2015 | Página 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