Houston rhymer Slim Thug, now known as Big Slim, stopped by rap legend Bun B's radio show 2 Trill With Bun B. The two Houston rappers talked about everything from Slim's entry into Hip-Hop to his name change.

"I'm not Slim Thug no more," the laid-back rapper said, laughingly adding that folks are still welcome to call him "Suga Daddy Slim." "I'm Big Slim now," he told Bun. "I'm off the thug shit. I'm 41 about to be 42. I'm a grown man."

Slim talked about his early days on the mixed tape circuit, getting music from legendary Houston producer Mr. Lee, and the success of the hometown favorite, "Kappa" mixtapes, before chronicling his ultimate connection with Pharrell and Interscope, which came through his then-girlfriend, singer/actress LeToya Luckett.

"I'm dating Letoya Luckett at the time, she says get on one of my songs," Slim recalled. He remembers her manager being impressed enough to want to hear more. Luckett's manager eventually played the tracks that had already made Slim locally famous —"Like A Boss" with Mr, Lee and "Three Kings — for Interscope. Then, Jimmy Iovine had the bright idea to team him with a big time producer. "Jimmy, his thing of success is, put a rapper with a big producer," Slim remembered. "So, Pharrell came to Houston, and we chopped it up on his bus. I was like I can rap anything, from being a mixtape rapper — I was ready for the challenge."

Bun also asked his version of "when did you fall in love with Hip-Hop," questioning Slim, who dropped his BIGslim album earlier this year, about who introduced him to the genre.

"It had to be my big brothers. I'm the youngest of seven," Slim said, adding that he started rapping at 10, when his older brother used to write rhymes for him. "I clearly remember going to a Budweiser Superfest. It was NWA, Too Short... Guy. There were a lot of different people and it really woke me up to Hip-Hop. Ever since then it was over... I remember my oldest brother, Tony bought me a karaoke machine and I would stay in the house and make albums off the "Southernplaylistic" beat. I did albums to that until I figured it out."

He also talked about his growth as a man and his current thoughts on forming a real connection with someone.

"The higher you go up in life, the lonlier it gets," he explained. "A lot of stuff that would come after being where I'm at for so long would be money driven, built off of who I am what I got. It ain't gonna be real anyway. I've been Slim Thug since I was 17 — it's gonna be hard, to me, to find something that makes a lot of real sense."

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