GREGORY “SLIM KARTEL” MANIGAULT WAS BORN IN RICHMOND VIRGINIA APRIL 6TH, 1985. SLIM STARTED MAKING MUSIC IN 2003 AFTER HE GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL. SLIM MET HIS CLOSE FRIEND WHO IS NOW HIS DJ (DJ DRIZZ) AROUND THAT TIME. SLIM WAS INTRODUCED TO SEAN “GOTTI” TERRELL IN 2006 AND GOT A STUDIO A YEAR LATER. 
 IN 2008 THEY HAD A COLLECTIVE GROUP BY THE NAME OF CRUNK SQUAD, THAT WAS COMPOSED OF ABOUT 12 MEMBERS AND BECAME ONE OF THE BIGGEST GROUPS IN VIRGINIA AT THE TIME. THEY RELEASED SEVERAL MIXTAPES AND GENERATED A HUGE STREET BUZZ THAT HAD THEIR NAMES RINGING BELLS THROUGHOUT RICHMOND AND OTHER PARTS OF VIRGINIA. SLIM KARTEL STARTED BRANCHING OFF AND BECOMING A SOLO ARTIST AROUND 2010, DROPPING HIS FIRST DEBUT MIXTAPE IN 2012 CALLED, “THE PEOPLE’S CHAMP”, AVAILABLE ON ALL DIGITAL PLATFORMS. SLIM KARTEL’S LATEST PROJECT TITLED, “BARS AND STRIPES”, WHICH WAS RELEASED IN APRIL 2019, HAS GAINED A GREAT MOMENTUM. SLIM HAS WORKED WITH SOME GREAT PRODUCERS BY THE NAMES OF ANDREW HYPES, SAVVY SINCLAIR, ARMANI STAXX, SHARKO, MIKE WAVS, KARIM, AMP ON THE TRACK, ZIM DIGITAL AND YANKEE MUSIK .ALSO SLIM HAS DONE FEATURES WITH SEVERAL ARTISTS, SUCH AS FREEBANDZ’ RECORDING ARTIST, NASCARRNAT, CHARGEDUP ENTERTAINMENT’S NOAH-O, BUGZIE THA DON, DUTCH CAPITAL, TERRELL ONLINE AND TUFF SHORTY AS WELL AS VARIOUS OTHER ARTIST IN THE STATE OF VA. SLIM’S CUTTING EDGE SOUND SETS HIM APART FROM OTHER ARTISTS AND MAKES YOU FEEL HIS WORDS AS IF YOU LIVED THROUGH THE PICTURE THAT HE IS PAINTING.