He has since left the game to pursue his music career, but his iconic image is anything but forgotten. Rolling around SF in his Cadillac, he recounts his role in pimpin', run-ins with the law, and what lead him back to his original love, the blues. Watch the interview on Walrus TV below:

About Fillmore Slim:
Known more for his role in the 1999 documentary film American Pimp than for his blues singing and guitar playing, music was Clarence Sims’ love when he didn’t even know that the Art Of Pimpin’ existed. Born and raised in New Orleans, Sims headed out to the Bay Area singing Lloyd Price’s “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” and began dating Etta James in the early ‘50s. After a tour of the South with Little Willie John and Joe Tex, he cut his first record “You've Got the Nerve of a Brass Monkey”, which led to other recordings under the nome-de-plumes Charles Sims, Ron Silva, Slim & the Twilites, and Tailbone Slim.

See Part 2 of this video interview HERE...

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