Slim makes it all of 5:30 into the album before making his State of the Union address: It's more poignant than anything he's ever done.
His flow, the perpetually engorged grumble that excels when allowed to roam free, seemed caged in by overproduction.īoss of All Bosses, however, is an application of basics, an open-hearted ode to the Southern bump and drag. By 2004, everybody knew exactly what a Slim Thug album entailed.īut with production credits for half of Already Platinum's 16 tracks going to an away team - spacey-synth enthusiasts the Neptunes - the LP sounded more like an impersonation of a Slim Thug album than an actual one. Those outside the South, though, gave the album strong reviews.įor about seven years, Slim cultivated a fan base on a steady stream of Houston-centric, bass-heavy mix tapes. It's the reason his loyal listenership was taken aback by his 2005 debut, Already Platinum. This is a fairly common trait among Southern artists - that slick-talking, Cadillac-salesman's ease. In addition to sounding cool as shit, it makes him immediately likable. They crawl out of the back of his mouth from deep in his chest. Words that shouldn't rhyme mesh together naturally. Long vowels and proper enunciation have no place in his speech it's all a gooey mess. It wasn't like I went up there with my demo or was like, 'Oh, give me a shot.'" I was just in the club doing a freestyle. It was something we did for fun, the freestyle shit. "Everything with that type of shit was just, in my mind, not reality.
"I was saying it wasn't, like, in my dreams to be this big famous rapper," Slim explains. Being a rapper is like propositioning someone to participate in a threesome, wearing sunglasses at night or being Bono: You need a massive ego, otherwise you're going to look like a moron. He was obviously talented, but he didn't intend on becoming a rap superstar simply because of his musical ability any more than he intended on becoming an NBA superstar simply because of his physical prowess.īiggie Smalls famously proclaimed that nobody gets in the game to be mediocre. The book on Slim is that he was, at first, a reticent celebrity. It's an impressive brick and stone-faced two-story home with an open living area that is exceptionally clean and elegantly decorated. Or even more absurd, maybe he's requested that the interview be held in some run-down shack in a hard-luck community that he'll claim as his own for posterity's sake - "Keeping it real," or some nonsense like that.īut Slim Thug's house isn't a shack, nor is it a moon castle. Something like a castle on the moon surrounded by a syrup-filled moat, maybe, with solid gold sharks swimming in it. Seemingly every rap song from the past 15 years is filled with grandiose tales of excess, so driving over there, you're not really sure what to expect.
As it is now, only half of his stage name is true. Even sitting down, Slim, 28, is every bit as dominant as his 6'6", 270-lb.
No Boss Hogg chain, no sunglasses, not even an entourage.Īctually, that seems natural. The tattoos that cover his arms are his only accessories. He's in a black T-shirt and crisp blue jeans. His hair, as expected, is tightly cornrowed. Stayve Jerome Thomas, better known as Slim Thug, is sitting on it. It's neither draped up nor dripped out, just classy. It's clearly expensive, but tastefully so. It's a nice couch, really - one of those L-shaped sectionals with plush cushions that you sort of sink into. Definition: To frighten into submission or compliance.Īpplication: Sitting on Slim Thug's couch.
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