don't let these kids fool you: PLIES had the streets on LOCK for a moment

[Reptile]

Plies >>>>>>>>> Jeezy.

 

[thaKEAF]

Yeah he definitely was a top street rapper for about three years.

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

Plies >>>>>>>>> Jeezy.

let’s not get carried away

 

[Reptile]

let’s not get carried away

Jeezy sucks. Run of the mill street rapper. Rudimentary lyrics and and an even more basic flow. His ear for beats was good at a point.

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

Jeezy sucks. Run of the mill street rapper. Rudimentary lyrics and and an even more basic flow. His ear for beats was good at a point.

ok.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

He did.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Plies version of Shawty wasnt bad.


Webbie's version wasnt bad either.

Webbie's version is slept on.

 

[trapnerd]

Plies verse on this had me ready to drop out and live a life of crime. Used to be in the club mean muggin every nikka from school I ain’t like.

 

[TaxCollector13459]

Plies verse on this had me ready to drop out and live a life of crime. Used to be in the club mean muggin every nikka from school I ain’t like.

Shii, if we keep it a hundo, even Pain really don't get his flowers like he should foreal, and he was on bigger hits than even Plies
If you needed a hook you went to Pain frfr
bra feature bag was crazy

 

[Yehuda]

"100 Years"
"Running My Momma Crazy"
"I Know You Working"
"Kept It Too Real"
"Worth Going Fed For"
"1 Day"
"Somebody Loves You"
"Co-Defendant"
"2nd Chance"
"Flawed"
"Get My Niccas Out"
"Trying 2 Beat da Odds"
"First 48"
"Snitching"

Man his "real-life" shyt sounds better than a lot of cats known for this type of lyrics.

 

[Tasha And]

Naw, you would only know the specifics if you was actually in Florida. I was in Florida a lot at that time doing what I was doing so I seen it in real time. But most the country became aware of him after them first few street mixtapes. Most people didn’t know about them. I was just saying how he was bigger than most people would assume in that early little run (on a local level. He took over the streets overnight) But the street hype locally kind died down from that height at the same time he was breaking out nationally

All truthfacts.

The mystique around him made him blow up overnight in that 05/06 range. A lot of people didn't even know what he looked like or what his story was, but the way he came off in those early songs made him sound like the realest, hardest Florida nikka, and his vernacular and slang made it all feel authentic. It made up for the lack of refined flow so when he would say shyt like "I just learned how to count bars" it actually made the songs feel harder. Made it feel like a goon literally just walked in the booth, put the chopper down, and started rapping.

I got some cheeks to Ms. Pretty p*ssy, the slowed version

But as you said, right around the time his first album was coming out was when folks that knew him knew him started punching holes in the resume. He still caught fire nationally but I remember in real time a bunch of my dudes (we was in high school) that knew every Plies song like overnight switched up like "man he aint real" and folks was getting into arguments like they found out Santa wasn't real, nikkas was hurt I remember a few of us worked at a retirement home after school and we would clean up the dining room at night and play music and one of them put this on like he was retaliating against the nikkas that still was riding with Plies

 

[Him]

Went to sleep real

Woke up ruff

 

[Tasha And]

This is my favorite Plies song right in the early mixtape days before he dropped his first album

 

[HabitualChiller]

I remember when going into target and his cd & UGK came out the same day. I only had enough money for 1 so I made a tough decision


I choose correctly

Yall unlocking memories I forgot about

I remmeber that shyt the day after it happened.

Body face got posted on social media and he deadass looked like Martin in that one episode

 

[Playaz Eyez]

All truthfacts.

The mystique around him made him blow up overnight in that 05/06 range. A lot of people didn't even know what he looked like or what his story was, but the way he came off in those early songs made him sound like the realest, hardest Florida nikka, and his vernacular and slang made it all feel authentic. It made up for the lack of refined flow so when he would say shyt like "I just learned how to count bars" it actually made the songs feel harder. Made it feel like a goon literally just walked in the booth, put the chopper down, and started rapping.

I got some cheeks to Ms. Pretty p*ssy, the slowed version

But as you said, right around the time his first album was coming out was when folks that knew him knew him started punching holes in the resume. He still caught fire nationally but I remember in real time a bunch of my dudes (we was in high school) that knew every Plies song like overnight switched up like "man he aint real" and folks was getting into arguments like they found out Santa wasn't real, nikkas was hurt I remember a few of us worked at a retirement home after school and we would clean up the dining room at night and play music and one of them put this on like he was retaliating against the nikkas that still was riding with Plies

2005 is when I first heard of Plies, from that Trina “So Fresh” song. Then I never heard from him again til “Shawty” dropped. Then come to find out, my uncle had a mixtape of his with 50 Grand Short Have no idea how he was onto Plies way before then. His come up in real time was something to see. It wasn’t Jeezy-level (to me), but it was so unexpected.