 What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town Fuckin' the sisters, I'm hoakin' them down Don't be a kid, I can't comprehend that, uh Already be done with your friend that hook I have you bet I bet What's up y'all, you tuned in to another twerk of the town interview with sugar Brianna Imani and who do we have in the building today? Oh man, D4M Sloan in the building on Sloan We got D4M Sloan in the building West Philadelphia, born and raised Happy belated birthday Appreciate that How was that yesterday, right? Yeah, I ain't doin' that yesterday though I ain't doin' that What? I was chillin' yesterday Okay, well you in New York, so Yeah, I'm on New York today though, so yeah How's it been so far? You know, I'm enjoying the shopping experience, you know Oh yeah, I'm sure, Mr. Put It On I know you're enjoying your time out here Definitely Okay, so let's get right into it So, were you born and raised in Philadelphia? I know I said that one Yeah, yeah, yeah Okay, and what was that like, growing up? That was the normal growing up And like, you know, like coach community, you know Okay Like, so were you like, were you socially like? No, yeah, I was, I was, um I was like, and like boxing Mm-hmm All my life Yeah, that's what I was mainly into, boxing Okay Always boxing and like, like Getting dressed too though, like Okay Back in the day So you been puttin' it on? Yeah, like, when it ever came in So like that, true religion Wow, yeah, that was a throwback I remember when Errol was a thing too Yeah Okay, so were you always like popular? Did you always have like a social life? Yeah, especially in West Philly Yeah, I was always known about West Philly Yeah Okay, so when you started making music Was it surprising to people? Were they kinda expecting it? Yeah, I mean, in school I was still in school When I first started making music Mm-hmm Like, when I first made music Like, yeah, so I don't know what people's reaction like initially was But I know that it was like People was like grasping to me though Okay So you said you were in school Was it high school? Middle school? When I first made music Yeah, I was like an eighth grade First first to make my first song But I wasn't making music But I made it Okay So you made your first song Was it like, it was like SoundCloud? You was SoundCloud? Yeah, SoundCloud, SoundCloud Okay, so you had the social life You was puttin' it on And you was making music Mm-hmm That's lit So at what point did you realize Like, that was really something That was gonna take off I don't know, seeing a reaction from people Like, every time you drop With some reaction Like, people really Like, I don't know It'd be like a certain type of reaction Mm-hmm Especially back then It was different When I was in school When I knew everybody was You heard this song People was playing it But it was different Like, later on in the line When I really became popular Okay So what point was that When it really started taking off? I had stopped making music For a little bit Then I started making music again Like, in 2018-19 Okay And I blew up in 2019 While I was still in high school Okay So why did you stop making music? Um You just stopped I don't know, it wasn't focused I was still boxing My friend died Like, when I first started with His name was Tamara I'm sorry That's what D-Farm stand for Yeah, Dufamere Okay That's how that That's when I stopped Okay So Moving forward You made, you know A name for yourself In the music scene But I'm curious to know Like, if it didn't start Picking up Would you have considered Pursuing boxing Or what would that have been If it wasn't for music? Yeah, I probably would be boxing I probably would be boxing But I got hit by a car So that's what made me stop Oh I got hit by a car and I broke my ankle Okay Well, I mean And look at you now So I mean sometimes things happen Not to say you should have got hit by a car But you know Certain things happen just so that I say that all the time I feel like everything happened For a reason Like God Mm-hmm That's what I said Okay, so You verify now So clearly you're going up How did you feel When you got your blue check? Oh, it's crazy I didn't even know I was um I looked Somebody had tagged me And Bobby Smerdan Something And I seen my name To his name But I seen a blue check on my name Mm-hmm I'm like What the hell is this Like his doing like I don't know There was like some glitch From his name to my I don't know what the fuck It was You feel me So you wasn't even expecting But I I ain't going to say I wasn't Because I've been Was supposed to be verified I feel like I've been Was supposed to be verified Like 2019-20 Like when I first started So you must have been And I had like A lot of people like Writing about blogs About me on like On Google If I say Safari On Google So like Yeah I was doing millions of views Like every month Mm-hmm I mean still are Yeah Okay So What was the initial support From like your friends and family When you started making Your music When you started getting Like Oh, it was lit It was a lot of us Like You know what I'm saying It was like a lot of us Like it was lit Like everybody was supporting Everyone making his music And then the support Because it was more We ordered now And got like Making different type of music We ordered We looked different We ordered Like I don't know I guess it's because we ordered I mean not only in the music But in the support Because you know Like a lot of people They wait until you start Getting lit For them to support you So that's what I'm wondering Like But they seen like Yeah, it was different Because you see Everybody supporting now Like you see Not even just like In-house You see outhouse People you don't Listen to me I hear this person It's on the radio now Like the radio playing I'm hearing you on the radio You know what I'm saying So it was like that When was the first time You heard yourself on the radio I was on a block We was waiting in the car This is my home car right there We was waiting in this car All day like We was waiting Because they told us They was about to play So we was waiting for them to play it Like 4 o'clock p.m. Like outside Just waiting all day For them to play Like I already said They going to play it Around this time And when was that It was hype For that For that But when was it That was what 2019 2019 2019 That was when Everything first jumped off So how do you think things Will change now Because I feel like You know radio plays Are still a thing But most people they stream Their music We looking it up on YouTube Yeah Yeah So So how do you feel Like Are you still looking forward To that Is that still something That you even look out for Like radio plays No They play Every Like Like sending over They play it now Like by themselves They play like a lot of my songs too Not even just one They play like I got like three songs In rotation every day Every day Yeah Okay I feel like I know Which ones they are But which songs You got in rotation on the video Which ones you got in rotation on the video I feel like Drive Who Crazy I would say Um S Wag Walk Sorry So I talk Sweet talk Yeah And um I don't know I know you just put out a song With D30 I don't think that's it That's on the radio too Oh okay Is that the third Yeah It's great I forgot about that That's it it's on the radio too They play it on the radio Okay so what's the third Um baby shirt Okay Okay that's the little radio That's it Okay Alright so You just told me what D4M stands for And I know like You were making music With Scyano at first You guys Well I won't say at first But you guys were a duo And y'all were really like Blowing up Yeah The hottest duo To do it And um Being a solo artist It was a huge transition It was a huge transition Because Like this Mainly the studio process The performing process Like you get what I'm saying Like we both Bills love each other energy Like performance I'm gonna say performance wise It's like We both We both rapping We got like different things I'm interacting with Carl He dancing You get what I'm saying But we're interacting with Carl In two different ways But as Bills love each other And they love seeing Both of us Like electric in the body You get what I'm saying Lightning in the body He dancing And I'm interacting And I'm Making eye contact with Carl You know what I'm saying They're stuff I'm grabbing the phone He dancing But like we both That's how it was Performance wise In the studio We Coming up with songs together Like You'll do this part Like you get what I'm saying Now I'm just like In there by myself And I'm just Going But you're doing it for the both of y'all And I think it's really nice That Still on your YouTube channel It still does Yeah I keep the picture of me Right there Really dope So what's your thoughts on Like the music climate now Versus when y'all were going up At the time Cause it's kind of changed It do change It changes every year What are your thoughts on how it is How it is right now It's lit It's bigger than it ever been I would say that too It's bigger than it It's more bigger than it ever been And what do you think Is I will talk about a Philly music Specifically But what do you think it was That put it on the map Cause I know y'all Are making music And I'm not saying y'all Are doing music specifically But like I feel like now is the time That everybody's tuned in Yeah But I would say this With every city Like every city Like Tic-Tac was a big Like a big You know Yeah So yeah I think Tic-Tac It definitely gave a lot of exposure to it So you say Tic-Tac Yeah and it's more like little So Curious to know Like what artist do you think Was the one that like Really popped it off Like whose music do you think Cause you know There's been like a lot Of Tic-Tac challenges Yeah And I feel like that's usually now How the music is popping Especially on Tic-Tac So like who would you say Was the one that like Put it on the map With Tic-Tac Like with the party stuff Like with the Philly Yeah with the Philly Well the first people do it Was me and Ski You feel me Me and Ski I know Yeah we did Baby Shark And then I came back And just dropped Chewbop Land You know what I'm saying On Tic-Tac Yeah that was about to So that was like The first party song From Philly On Tic-Tac You know what I'm saying Then after me Chewbop Land Yeah Chewbop Land Then after me Was it I think it was I also was saying These 30 I think it was them I don't know if it was them Or to it No it was them It was them It was them It was them They don't want crazy Crazy And then to where You know what I'm saying But once they did it It just started going They doing the hips Like it's the young boys From the city They got these little hip Then it started going More crazy You know what I'm saying That brought more attention To it too That dance That dance really made it Yeah and I mean When I listen to it now It's kind of like You can't help but to do it And I know that Some artists were like Asking people to dance Today in music and stuff To get the songs out there Were you doing that Or it wasn't really like All organic No it was all organic I don't even dance That's why I don't even dance I mean I know you don't I just post the music I just like You know what I'm saying People think they Expecting me to dance But I really just I mean I spend even when I'm like I make you with things I make party songs I do it too Yeah So you don't do like A little one two I do my little two-step and bop Two-step and bop Wee wee Rock it a little Dance and dance Okay so I know you made The song with D-30 Like I said before Like what other Upcoming artists are From Philly Are you like I got two songs with Ohm Tour I got Ohm I got Who I got A song coming with soon Like really I don't know I'm willing to work with everybody I'm willing to work with everybody I fuck with like Genuinely though Like you know what I'm saying I don't even do songs with everybody Okay I sure love the everybody though I sure love I'm not like No cocky But I just don't So what are you It makes sense like Because everybody You know what I'm saying You know what I'm saying I gotta make sense too Okay So it has to It has to make sense It's not something that Could just I got like a gritty voice Like you don't want to Force a record It's all about collab Organically Sound good with this sound Like you know what I'm saying So who If you had to name three people That you would Want to collab with That you think would fit the voice And fit the vibe Who would it be That you haven't collabed with yet Filly or No it could be Anywhere I'm like I want to collab with Doja Cat Yes Doja Cat I want to collab with Doja Cat I want to collab with Ohm I want to collab with I want to collab with Ohm Well while you're thinking I'm gonna pick up on What you just said With Doja Cat So you think she Definitely thinks She could keep up With the vibe With the energy So I'm curious Like why her Cause I like how she Be switching her flows That went like different Like I heard a song called Getting to it I like that Like I like she got Like a different vibe To her You know There was like A very controversial question Or a conversation out there Not too long ago With Doja Cat Being considered A rapper or not Do you think that She can be considered A rapper I don't know I don't know Cause I'm gonna keep it I don't even know Too many songs to do I know like I know like that song You gotta Do your homework Cause Doja Cat Got some box out there Yeah She rap and sing I don't know if she She's an artist That can't be a Controversial thing It's whatever she wants She's an artist Okay And what would you Consider yourself Like what kind of artist Would you categorize yourself as I'm a trap rock star Trap rock star I don't think I've heard that before Okay Who else would you put In that category Yeah I know Okay Fair enough Now don't think I forgot Cause you only named Doja Cat And I kind of deflected A little bit But we're gonna go back on it So give me your other two Who would you want To hop on a trap With you I would hop on a trap Well I wanna do it Something with Nicki Minaj Okay And I'm gonna say Are you a Barb? No I'm a bitch Okay No Okay Okay So we got Doja and Nicki And What's I wanna do What's I wanna do What's I wanna do Alright Future Future No not future Yeah future You would say that Yeah future You would say that I just seen this thing I just seen this Um This This This This This This This This This This This So that's why I said it's funny that you wouldn't say future But you should love to the ladies So That's really really dope So how would you describe your sound Being that it's so unique Um And it's very depending On who gets on a track with you How would you describe your sound To somebody who's never heard your music Swag Like purr swear Purr P-u-r-e Swag Perr swear I got a little accent I got a accent Purr So when I say it some It came out real grizzly real grizzly like yeah but it's yeah and how did you like discover that like voice like the grizzly man skips in the studio one time and we just was like getting real creative with it you know what I'm saying real creative we start off like stuttering but we was doing like like it was like the way we stuttering like it was like we was doing it deep you know what I'm saying okay and you kind of just touched on the next thing I was gonna ask about the ad libs cuz you come up like you come up with them on the side you have go-tos no no no I got I come up with it whatever like I like to every song I like to like put a different type of ad libs in there I use like some of the same ad libs like the earth is not an ad libs like more like how I'm flowing mm-hmm you know I'm saying but I got like a lover I might put you or I might put oh my you know I'm saying mm-hmm like a little certain stuff like and it just like comes natural come real natural it depends on the song how I'm feeling during the song so how would you feel if like let's say tomorrow somebody drop a track and they sound very similar to you like almost like they jacked your whole sound like how how would you feel about that see like I don't know how far I don't like that I don't like that though you're saying like that won't make it that won't make me do a song with you type shit so if you want to be cool D-forma Sloan try not to sound like me so you're not a believer of imitation being the best form of life but yeah no I'm not but it's like I understand I understand I understand how influence influential I am saying like I just was telling somebody that like I'm like like like the young thug my city like young thug with the shit okay like on sound wise like on you'm saying with the you'm saying the voice and shit like that mm-hmm not everybody was like doing him like in Atlanta with the baby voices like that mm-hmm so I look at like that so I don't really be too mad as I should be like I'm real humbles I really don't be too mad like my homies be mad when here's the mic sound like me okay they be mad at me I really don't be giving the fuck that much but I don't like it but I don't be like I was gonna say you speaking in the present like it's happening already so you feel like people are already jacking it down if you've been doing this in 2019 he's been doing it you know I don't be I mean well I don't really say nothing though I don't really be but I mean what is this cuz I'll say I don't really I know nobody comes to mind maybe I'm not hit but nobody really comes to mind when I think of like your sound so it's either they not really on yet or they just not doing it right so nothing we matter oh okay so you dropped your album last year um was it received the way that you anticipated most definitely yeah and how has how was that the whole world slaying here yet so I can't man I'm not gonna say most definitely to the whole world slaying here yet probably like the tri-state mm-hmm you know saying or a few fans the few fans that I got like different cities mm-hmm yeah so like the whole world in here so I'm not gonna say was it was I wanted it because I wanted the whole world so that yes that's your goal yeah I ain't as big I ain't super mm-hmm you know I'm saying mm-hmm so you said the tri-state area was tuned in like where does most of your fan base come from um Philadelphia Delaware Jersey Baltimore New York DC okay those like man but it's still I got like Chicago Atlanta mm-hmm saying mm-hmm shit like that okay so you said Seattle Seattle okay I'm just real I'm just thinking about the spot of the L meeting Spotify shit okay so what walk me through like your creative process like what is what is that like it's a I'm in the studio listen to a beat I'm gonna still listen to a beat I like to see a real dark like damn they're red dark red okay I'm saying dark why does that help you like it I don't know I just need like to be real dark I don't know where I'm where I'm coming at their things you know and sometimes I like it I go in a book I didn't make it for like my man scion next to me I might have one of my come on smoke weed night he's a smoke we like on the side of my face I'm recording the whole time so I might tell one of them come like you're like smoke next record like this and how do you little thing right next in record this how about the booth so you don't write before you get into the booth you write while you there I can't I say I always try to write before I go to the studio like I might try but I might have to do two days before I'm gonna just like y'all know I got a session scheduled for this day I'm trying right here before but I can't focus where I go in the studio mm-hmm okay so you come up with all that toxic shit on the spot yeah cuz I'm like all right you just say I don't give a fuck about your man fuck on the first night she burnt out talking about fucking on friends and all of that like so you come up with that on the spot so now I'm feeling like is that real life no it is real life though that's me yeah yeah that's mean everything I said so how does that translate when it comes to dating because I don't like I would I don't know how I feel about approaching a nigga that like talking about stuff like that especially if it's applicable to your real life so how does that work how do you separate your dating life from the stuff that you talk about your music I I'm gonna explain this in like a bar I got this bar I say she get mad when she hear my son that pussy to draw who crazy but you're my rapper but stop I say I'm a rat I said I'm a rabbit but stop nagging this is what I do baby you know saying like that so that's that's the way I'm gonna just find it out I'm a rapper don't nag about it don't date a rapper then I won't know but but so of course I gotta ask cuz drop who crazy was like it ran tiktok for a very long time low-key still does but so that was inspired by somebody since everything is based on a true life that was inspired by somebody like that was inspired for every girl who got that thought in a mind the thought that the pussy would drive me crazy so like site no yeah don't think that over here alright so how can you tell like as you're going up like if a girl is really interested in you because like they actually interested in you or if it's just because you get late or because you are late how can I tell a girl oh like how can I tell like if a girl really want me yeah how can you talk they not like cloud chasing that's a I really can't tell I can't now I can't now I know I'm good looking dude but I can't tell now I don't know I really can't okay so do you have certain like I don't want to say standards but that's for like a better words like when you're dating now is it is your dating preference different than when you was coming up see no I don't know not really only do too much dating okay okay alright outside some little surprise about that okay so we don't get back to the music so what do you do you prefer recording music or do you prefer like performing different people oh that's a good I don't know I like both as they in hand-to-hand good like before I record and it's like you thinking about when I'm recording I'm thinking about how I was gonna be when I perform it that's clear like that's okay that's how like when I say this part you know I'm saying what the reaction is gonna be like how they gonna repeat is worth we're in a crowd mm-hmm that's what I'm thinking about okay so where's been what's been like your favorite performance so far like the favorite place your favorite places I'm gonna say powerhouse because I always again I was supposed to perform until I was 19 you know saying so when I perform there it was just like a great spirit okay and I saw you also like you performed quite a bit but I also saw like you open up a little baby oh at the dope shoes yeah and so that was but the top top one was powerhouse what made that one so they was the same it was handing I think it was more people there that was the same police was at the Wells Fargo so it's more people there and he was wrapping word from word there but I'm just saying powerhouse not based on like the people in the crowd because it was more people there were wrapping word for the little baby one okay at the dope shows one then it was that the um I was like powerhouse is wrapping word from word but it was more people you understand yeah powerhouse just on a simple fact that like damn I said kid growing up in Philadelphia everybody going to powerhouse they're growing you understand so yeah for me yeah I was watching I always wanted to go to the hallways and walk the whole with that shit on right so now the fact that I'm performing on stage like different so have you had any like crazy fan interactions yet I know it's crazy I always I was going to question the coming interview I got a crazy stalker fan like she like still like yeah like crazy oh she's gonna be the first she was just at my last show like not my last show my show for my life she like wrote how like she just be popping up at the performances like what did she do like she was in a crowd I was at like a club club but she was in a crowd standing in the middle crowd is looking at me with a serious face like evil serious face you know then I had my last performance they said she was there since five o'clock the first person there see we didn't get there she tried to run up on me but like it's crazy it was crazy so what like separate like a stalker fan from like just like she just really fuck with you like what I know no no no I'm gonna say it cuz I know I seen her DM me before I see him our request like they like she had DM me like repeatedly like crazy stuff though crazy stuff so at one point like would you block would you block a fan I know a block nobody didn't like that was the first person I blocked her cuz it was just getting me too much it was great I'm like God like she didn't every day crazy stuff like when you say crazy it's like crazy like like crazy like or crazy like crazy like I'm gonna pop up crazy and all the type of free like that like oh yeah she had so job her crazy okay all right so are you fine just what does that mean I don't know if it's like a question but I just say every time somebody asked me a question I just but you at talk of the town so you got to move the finger and like you know it ain't the town yet though okay so soon come yeah just so okay we could talk with this all camera okay but so without giving out too much what would it take for a label to get you like if you once the announcement comes out that you are signed what like what was it that made you sign today I leave you got to understand that this business is like a this is a multi-billion dollar business and brand this is not no regular artists okay come with like a league team and a whole a real business behind it like a real and a real you know I'm saying okay I understand that yeah shout out to the team so who's who's on your team my own man's partner she and Frollo publicist Christina road manager Johnny Boyd um because I'm creative stylist director Michael she Smith okay and clearly your team is doing a thing cuz outside of music I saw you on Bel Air doing your thing on there too is this like something that we could look more forward to it's acting like rapper actor yeah you know most definitely yeah you can see me I'm gonna start like pushing the button on that too now I have I ain't been ever since Bel Air I ain't been like that folks on it cuz then like I dropped swag talking like y'all Chris I've been focused on music out in the book for shows so I ain't it folks the art let me go hit this person up with this and do this I ain't get into it like yeah summer I'm gonna start you gonna see more okay you know looking forward to it okay so what coastines like have you received so far that kind of like may have shocked you or like really excited room I was just talking to Bobby Smurder cuz he had um did a video dancing to my song are you are you are you tuned into the New York music yeah I be hearing about like certain stuff about New York you were hearing about it but I heard certain songs yeah I don't listen to too much of it okay I listen to pop smoke I'll be here by the Bronx the Bronx yeah you gotta tap in okay so now I already said it before you missed to put it on so what's hot right now like you know spring is coming in might need a little style tips like what what's hot for 2022 spring I don't know I really I don't know I like everything I like everything I like okay so I don't know what's like I just how I feel okay so it was not really a style yeah I just like everybody just go put this exact outfit on I wouldn't even tell him I do that you know gotta be outfit but what's like a alright like what's like a what was a wardrobe must have for you like a cop that you had to get this year so far let's let's say that what was like your best cop I was looking for this off-white hoodie was like a fur off-white hoodie mm-hmm but I don't think I got in the stores no more so I just had to grab the saline saline fur hoodie okay see me so alright let's do a trip trip check what you what you got on mr. put that on okay okay okay okay okay okay I got no place oh and I got a home human head on I got a human head on shout out to all around where I'm poison yeah I'm locked around poison I just performed as fashion show dope yeah so you're sitting right next to the runway New York Fashion Week you are you really you really out here on there most of okay so how important do you think your style is to your image it's very important to me I like people um I feel like when people look at me they think that you get I'm saying that's how I treat that people look at this and I think a deformed slum mm-hmm okay so you think that's one of the things that comes to mind when they think of you like your style yeah like you're thinking like a hat to match the outfit like glasses when you think of me like some season and I know you mentioned like a creative you have like where you have like a stylist yeah so do you put on you put your outfit together or no yeah I got yeah everything you see me on my Instagram I put it on certain stuff my page made from like I know I got a few styles I don't got just one I gotta be the director stylist I got like a style to make stuff personally okay so like that yeah okay so like what's some advice that you would give to like an upcoming artist who's trying to make a name for themselves or trying to turn their name into a brand like you mentioned before my main thing is to say it's like just be as different as possible you know what I'm saying that's like the main keto like to be as different and stand out like people can like I'm saying when they look at you they like then like it's like you understand more intriguing to be as different as possible okay and what's next for the 4m slow and what can we expect for you from you you know I might drop one more single or am I a big feature a big feature when when can we expect that because I know you're not okay we can get a hint when oh when you can explain it no oh it is is one of y'all favorite everybody say that oh one of your favorite artists on female artists well female artists okay in the world in the world oh and what's crazy it's crazy okay that's exciting so wait when can we expect that probably this month okay just some time for summer nice okay so is there anything else that you would like you know to put out there anything you would like for the people to know before we wrap it up sway talk drop it crazy out now if you ain't know you probably know but hopefully do know the stream and crazy all summer before I'm slow again okay and shout out your socials just so that people follow you if I'm slow or everything man follow me or anything it's long