SLYIDE Artist with a Bright Future How did you come up with the stage name SLYIDE? Originally My First Love for music was dancing and I picked up and self-taught myself how to Pop & Lock it’s its own unique style its own unique Groove I’ve been told by people I look like I’m triple join it in my knees and when I was thinking about what I wanted to go by as like I was a dancer first and I’d like to slide so that’s how the name came to be that’s why my hashtag is: #SlyideWithMe Who do you listen to when looking for your musical inspiration and why? I listen to a lot of lyrical artists mainly more old-school from the early 2000s and back. Eminem, Tech, Ludacris, Vanilla Ice, newer artists like Kendrick Lamar, J Cole, Hopsin and my newest inspiration comes from Joyner Lucas.
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If you could pick one of those to collaborate with, who would that be and why? In all honesty my answer is the same as everybody else’s when it’s in the list and that’s Eminem. But if we’re talking about something that isn’t going to put me in outer space and isn’t going to be massive on
that level then I’d want to go with one of his lyrical hip-hop students and that would be Hopsin or Joyner Lucas I’d love to work with either one of them they followed his crap closely and I feel like those are two of the artists in the game right now that most resemble Eminem style. You have participated in several areas of musical entertainment…what made you decide to focus on production? The fact that it’s just a different type of art form you know there’s many factors that came into it for one I’m not really the touring kind of guy I don’t like massive crowds of people I like to sit behind the scenes I don’t like to be the center of attention. So being a producer I have a direct influence on how that artist sounds on the track how the beat sounds how they mess together and basically, I’m in charge of making hit vocals into a hit song or a hit beat and mixing it with vocals for a hit song if you know what I mean. It’s a mix of pressure and pleasure in the form that basically you’re pressured to come up with the absolute best result that you possibly can’t but you’re pleasured because you’re doing what you love to do and you can truly make something amazing and when your hearts in it.
