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About Plies

Plies doesn’t just rap—he wields his voice like an instrument, a mood or even an event. At any given time, the elastic-throated Florida MC might sound like a party, a confrontation or a relationship waiting to happen. Born in 1976, Algernod Lanier Washington was a late-bloomer—his first hits were on the American football field, from school to college—but after investing in his stepbrother’s rap label, Plies discovered his calling. From the beginning, his syrup-thick Southern slur added style and emotion to the tales that have made his life a series of adventures, some more harrowing than others. As hard as he is, Plies’ 2007 debut, The Real Testament, put his homegrown charisma on full display with his breakthrough single, “Shawty”, a trap love song featuring fellow rising Floridian T-Pain. Plies stretched his inflection further with Da REAList in 2008, particularly on the sparsely menacing “All Black”, a reference to the MC’s preferred style of dress while moving on enemies. He’s often indulged his wit over the years, too, as on 2016's tongue-in-cheek “Ran off on da Plug Twice”, whose video spawned a dance move seen in clubs and the NFL alike. Meanwhile, 2018’s “Rock” flipped an intractably dark Three 6 Mafia beat into a song about steadfast love, proving what we already knew: armed with that slow, malleable flow, Plies is a master of subversion.

HOMETOWN
Fort Myers, FL, United States
BORN
1 July 1976
GENRE
Hip-Hop/Rap

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