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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 How did you come up with your stage name in dc everybody calls everybody slim, plus im a slim build dude, and my real name slim tristan, but the whole “slim tristan “ originated while I was doin time in federal prison, I was rappin on the yard one day and one of the homies said “that nigga slim tristan be rappin like shit” If you were not making music what would you be doing 9 times out of 10 - I would be knee deep in the streets, back in prison, or dead to be honest and I say that because I been in the streets my whole life, been in & out of jail since I was 12, and in these weaked streets its only two outcomes “prison or death” Why are you a performer because I have a helluva story to tell, and its alot of ppl who been thru or is goin thru what www.<strong>Misfit</strong><strong>Tunes</strong>.com 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, I cant even give you a number... my best performance was when I was personally asked by shyglizzy to perform at his show at Club Love, it was Live & the crowd showed me major love... my worst performance was my first performance because nobody knew me, they jus was standing there lookin at me... what I learned from that performance was - if I shine hard I gotta grind hard....I used it as motivation.... Do you love your music I absolutely love my music 100% because its me 100%, no cut cards at all, and I love myself 100%, every morning I look in the mirror and say to myself “ you the choosen one who has sacrifed & who is gonna get your family, kids, love ones out the slums.. I sacrificed blood, sweat, tears, freedom,and my life in order to give the massives my story... 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