In this episode of The Grey Area with Slink Johnson & Soren Baker, Slink divulges what life was like as a rapper before he became “Black Jesus.”
Once signed to Too $hort’s $hort Records, he adopted the moniker Slink Capone when he began to take his craft seriously in 1994. He was introduced to Too $hort through Eric, who brought him to a studio session where the Bay Area rapper, Ant Banks and another guy named Keke listened to a few of his tracks. He would later begin to make music with Keke.
“I made a few songs with Keke and we submitted them to $hort,” Slink says. “At the time $hort was getting $hort Records together. Bam. He signed me.”
So, why the name Slink Capone?
“That is what my idea of what a gangsta is,” he says. “I thought Capone was a gangsta. Not this bullshit you doin’ on these streets…I was young and if I knew what I knew now I would’ve been Slink Johnson off top because ain’t nobody else mo’ gangsta than me.”
Watch episode 3 of The Grey Area with Slink Johnson & Soren Baker discussing Slink’s past life as a rapper below.
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