DOWN BOTTOM RECORDS

It started off as a way to keep myself from being bored at work and developed into something that no one would have imagined. As a production technician at Bayou Steel, I started freestyling and writing rap songs as a way to pass the time on those long 12 hour shifts. With every freestyle and every song that I wrote, my skills continued to grow stronger and stronger. It wasn't until my dawg Renaldo "Naughty" Friloux mentioned to me that I could make it as a rapper that I realized he was on to something. At first I was kind of skeptical, but when I really sat down and thought about it, I realized that I had nothing to lose. Either I make it or I don't.

I have always loved rap music but now that I've made up my mind to become a rap artist, I pay more attention to the music that I listen to. Picking up on different styles and structure, I have increased my skills even more.

Coming up with a name was really fun. I thought of using my real name at first but then I thought that maybe another name would sound more attractive. that's when the thought process began. I wanted a moniker that would describe me without being something fake. One day it finally hit me. D. SLIM! I'm slim and my name is Devrin so hey why not?

Now that I have a stage name, its time to make a name for my label. In order to select a name that was not already taken, I had to go to www.uspto.com, the United States Patent and Trademark website, to make sure that the name I wanted was free. First I tried Bayou Boy Records but my co-worker Dwight "Ghetto Thug" Jones told me that someone already had it. Once again, I entered the thought process to select another name. Then it hit me. Louisiana is at the bottom of the map and I reside at the bottom of Louisiana. What else other than Down Bottom Records?

Now that everything is in place, its time to start making hits and getting rich. My next thing is time either build a studio or buy an abandoned building and make a studio out of it. Its gonna be hard but I'll use the proceeds from selling my mixtapes and albums to get my studio up and running. Now that the game plan is in full effect, I can only "Grind Til I Shine."