Canon file · August 2026

Slick Fontaine

Slick Fontaine is a fictional AI-enabled Detroit recording artist created by Crooked Staff Records LLC. In canon, his legal name is Solomon Franklin Fontaine: born November 8, 1972, raised on Detroit's Old West Side and around the Midwest-Tireman world that shaped his ear.

1972 Henry Ford Hospital 1990 Cass Tech 53 August 2026
Fictional production portrait of Slick Fontaine
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Identity

Slick Fontaine is fictional.

Slick Fontaine is a fictional AI-enabled Detroit recording artist created by Crooked Staff Records LLC. The character, biography, phone experience, and public archive are part of an original music universe.

Canon

Solomon Franklin Fontaine.

In canon, he was born November 8, 1972 at Henry Ford Hospital and is 53 in August 2026. He came up around the Old West Side and Midwest-Tireman world.

Sound

Detroit soul pressure.

The music sits between neo-soul, funk rap, hip-hop, and cinematic late-night Detroit storytelling.

Public facts

The dossier.

Name
Solomon Franklin Fontaine
Born
November 8, 1972 · Henry Ford Hospital · Detroit
Age
53 in August 2026
School
Cass Tech class of 1990
Sound
Neo-soul · funk rap · Detroit soul pressure
Label
Crooked Staff Records LLC
The origin

Old West Side, good clothes, hard math.

Fontaine's world runs through family, tailoring, music rooms, and the quiet cost of keeping your own name on your work. Isaiah Fontaine, Evelyn Fontaine, Lorraine, and Marcus sit close to the center of the file. So do Lucien Baptiste, Mrs. Odessa Bell, CeCe Monroe, Camille Price, and Victor Lane.

The Night Ledger was a local spoken-storytelling and live-music room. The Royal Palace was the proving ground. It was not celebrity mythology and it was not a criminal biography. It was a Detroit room, a working band, a voice learning the difference between holding attention and having something worth saying.

Visual canon

The car, the ring, the arrival.

The first owned Cadillac in the file is a 1978 Coupe deVille. The modern signature car is a black 1985 Fleetwood Brougham d'Elegance. When the plate is visible, it reads SLICK.

The signature jewelry is a ruby-red diamond-shaped ring worn on the right ring finger, inscribed inside with KEEP YOUR HAND STEADY. The clothes are not costume. They are intention made visible.

Black 1985 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham d'Elegance production artwork
Current signature car. Fictional production artwork.
Ruby-red diamond-shaped yellow-gold ring on right ring finger
Signature ring. Canon inscription: KEEP YOUR HAND STEADY.
Fictional archive artwork of the Royal Palace Night Ledger room
The Royal Palace / Night Ledger. Fictional archive artwork.
The project

Original music, fictional canon, live interaction.

The music is original and independently released. The character, biography, voice line, recommendations, pick links, and public archive are part of a larger fictional universe connected to Crooked Staff Records and, where explicitly credited, The Wool-Lites.

Public copy should describe Slick as independent, Detroit-rooted, and fictional. It should not claim major-label fame, real criminal history, prison history, trafficking, gang affiliation, or a literal pimp biography.