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Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

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Sims

Thursday, March 19
9:25PM - 10:00PM

Karma Lounge
105 E 5th St

12395

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Restless and passionate but with an unflinching realism at his core, Sims has seen enough of life to know there are no easy answers.

Andrew Sims grew up in the working-class Minneapolis suburb of Hopkins, Minnesota. His parents were both musicians with problems of their own, and Sims often had to look out for himself and his younger brother. “I was super short-fused,” he remembers. “I got in fights almost every day until I was about 13.”

He found solace in rap and R&B music, nurturing a love for mainstream hits as well as then-underground artists such as the Wu-Tang Clan. His parents didn’t approve of his new love, however, so he built a secret stash of cassette mixtapes that he traded to kids at school. He soon found a gift for rhyme and begin channeling his aggression into feisty, kinetic wordplay.

His rap habit quickly grew from playground cyphers to recorded projects. In high school, he met a local producer an...

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