Welcome to all things Sliimy (pronounced “Sleemy”). If you’ve been on the receiving end of a brilliantly viral “Who Is Sliimy” tweet and are still going ‘Huh?’ You’ve come to the right place. So who is this intriguing character who is proving so fascinating to the good and the great? He’s Yanis Sahraoui, a 20-year-old from Saint-Etienne near Lyons. His friends and fans call him Sliimy, a nickname since childhood. Why? “Because I was really skinny, so lots of kids called me ‘spaghetti’,” he says, hardly explaining it at all. “So I stayed as Sliimy and created a blog called ‘Sliimy’. It doesn’t mean anything. It sounds like pop music.”

Why yes, yes it does. We’re giving away 1 custom Sliimy Music Tee (a $40 value, HOLLA) that comes complete with a download for his zingy and fresh debut album “Paint Your Face.” Just email punkphoto at gmail dot com with ‘Sliimy’ in the subject line and we’ll take care of the rest. PS: Lily Allen’s sleeve artist, Check Morris, designed the artwork for Sliimy’s debut album (and this shirt)! The fold-out collage for Paint Your Face is a riot of colours and shapes, fabrics and textures, surrealist brica-brac and objets d’art. Sounds just like his music if you ask us. So yeah. That’s who Sliimy is.

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