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Real Testament (Clean)

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I interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring you the scoop on Plies and this album. I first heard of Plies when some fool in a local magazine was bigging him up as the realest ever. Then I finally heard him rapping offbeat to Usher's Confessions. I was less than impressed but back then there was no hype around him but a month later everybody was on his wood. This Fort Myers native was signed because of street cred(yes, you've read that right and dont believe the hype because the CEO of Slip-N-Slide, Ted Lucas, said it with his own fat mouth). After reading the above a fundamental question must be asked.....WHAT PART OF THE GAME IS THAT? I guess you cant expect sound judgement from a CEO who married Luke's baby momma(again, you've read that part correctly). There's overrated rappers that are good and can flow and then there's Plies. Plies cant flow, he has a hard time rapping on beat and when he does rap on beat he manages to fall off. You want me to say something positive about dude fine. He has mic presense in the sense that he is not boring but his rhymes are simplistic and suspect beyond belief! The only decent song(and I use the word decent loosely) is Shawty with T-Pain. That speaks volumes about this album when the best song on it is a chick record. This ignorant a$$ gargoyle pretty much covers all-too-familiar terrain with On My D***, Keep It Too Real, Money Straight, Goons Lurkin and Murkin Season. Speaking of the last two joints mentioned how can you listen to those tracks and act as if he broke the mold when he follows the same mold thousands of rappers have been following for years? I Am The Club is so stupid its not even funny just sad. Hypnotized with Akon is a lame record and I really think that Akon is overused as a singer of hooks and please dont tell me about Runnin My Momma Crazy! That song is not deep. Rappers have been saying the same bull**** for years. Tell me something I havent heard already not you know you're doing wrong and you still do it. 1 Mo time is him pleading with his girl to let him rip one more time after he cheated on her(yeah Plies, that makes a lot of sense) More disposables: 100 Years, I Kno U Workin(dumbest anti-snitch record ever!), You feat Tank(who sounds like he's doing his worst Maxwell impression on the hook), Friday and for those of you who have those bonus tracks Water, Aint Slippin and Got Em Hatin are all garbage. Got Em Hatin was his first single and it was produced by the ever so wack Nitti(why does everybody keep chasing after this nonbeat producing producer?). Bottom Line: The Real Testament is easily one of the worst releases of 2007 by the most overrated rapper out of Florida and the most overrated rapper out of the south period. The production for the most part wasnt bad but Plies is a beatwaster couple that with the fact that Plies is saying the same garbage weve been hearing for decades so how is he possibly above the rest? All he talks about is choppers, haters, sex and money. Straight cookie-cutter material. Now I know all these trendfollowing bay-bay kids are going to accuse me of hating but lets be real. You're on his nuts because the hood is on his nuts arent you? Give me another reason that you feel this ignoramus besides the hood saying that he is the realest n**** alive. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Its sad because there are people out here who can rap circles around this clown and they're not being heard because they arent so-called street credible. That sucks! F*** Plies, that millenium Suge Knight called Ted Lucas(or Ted Mucus) and everybody on his nuts! 100% real n****? Naw. 100% ignorant, 100% stereotypical, 100% illiterate, 100% overrated, 100% formulaic, 100% garbage! Now back to your regularly scheduled program(sounds of static).

Plies (A.K.A Algernod Lanier Washington) debut album is "The Real Testament" (2007) a fifteen track release which features guest appearances from T-Pain, Tank & Akon. The quality of this release to me is simply sub-par, half ass lyricism, a horrendus flow and weak production can be found throughout the album. Akon and T-Pain are brought in to lighten up the album up some and handle their own on the singles "Shawty" and "Hypnotized". Akon provides one of the few note worthy but brief moments lacing the later track with one of his trademark choruses, Plies lyrics are less then memorable - and ruin what could of been a good track. Truthfully though even the contributions from the Konvict music artists are run of the mill ones which were most likely throwaways. I read that Plies was the one who created "I Wanna Love You" for Akon and Snoop, and was supposed to appear on the track until he had some legal problems. Give him credit for creating a bonafide hit but I am glad he was not included on it. The Florida rapper provides something different when talking about his relationship with his mom on "Runnin' My Momma Crazy". Most of this album is full of the same old ignorant played out ********, no creativity, nothing positive - heard it all before (ten years ago) and it was done better. I would not recommend "The Real Testament" for the collection.

With all of the hype around Piles i thought that this CD was gonna be hot. It wasnt even close. The only song that i like is the song about his mother just because of my brothers past. i used to like shwaty but it is played out now. Dont waste your money on this lame CD.

Everybody has this and that to say about what's real and what's not real. To me, Hip-Hop and the artist involved, has to be real. Street credibility or not. It don't matter how much drugs you sell, how many cars you got, how many people you know died, what hood you from or what you did before you started rapping. The whole argument is the destruction of hip-hop. And "rappers" like Plies is the reason hip-hop is at it's state. If it ain't about lyrics, why get involved in hip-hop? It started with lyrics, not an uneducated flow and a tight baseline to back it up. Listen to Sugarhill Gang tell a story, or Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five talk about the streets of New York in the late 70's and early 80's. They dissed politics in America without using profanity or talking about killing anybody. NWA may have used derogatory language but it still made sense. Hip-hop is declining everyday because their is no originality and no common sense. Plies maybe saying something REAL, but in the same sense, a crime against another black man is being committed because of non-sense like this. No one is saying rap should be gospel or clean. The roots of hip-hop is based on creativity, knowledge and a push towards a positive and better future for the urban community. The Real Testament describes a complete failure.

More of the passe garbage that has been killing rap.....these dude's album is pretty much belongs in the Classification of what Nas would call a hiphop killer... The lyrics are over-simplified and ignorant. The topics range from guns, the drug trade, and pure down to it most of the songs are about sex ( or misogynistic toward women.) Particularly the song that irks me the most is 100 yrs....I mean the only true message in there is about the imbalance of crime conviction and sentencing between white and black person. It would have been a decent song had he not used racial slurs and then later on gone on to contradict himself by talking about drugs and guns..and how he's so "hood"... maybe if ignorant n*ggas like this dude didnt help to support stereotypes maybe we wouldn't have that problem. Also, is this guy rappin with his "gold teef" on during the whole album, cuz his pronunciation skill is horrible.

So to boil it down the only thing this rapper has to his name is his credibility....well sorry to tell you but credibility doesnt make a good record when you have no skill.

So, Thanks Plies for helping keep millions of young impressionable kids ignorant and effectively keeping the stereotype river running...

Plies had the radio going crazy with the release of his single "shawty" a year ago. I was not to big on the single but would find myself singing along whenever I heard it. I was on Youtube a few months back and was doing a search on Plies and came across plenty of his songs. So I said what the heck let me download the album. On the first few listens I was not impressed just entertained and to be perfectly honest thats not a bad thing. But with saying that I wouldn't call this cd a classic....

Just like any artist in the industry they are all put into catergories. Let's just say Plies is not in the same catergory as a Nas, T.I., or even Young Jeezy for that matter, he's more in a caterory of "play his cd when you need something hood and over the top to hear". I'm not going to lie there were a couple of tracks that I enjoy on this cd, now will that enjoyment be the same a few years from now, who knows...but none-the-less, I like many of his tracks-they are as follows:

Top Tracks:
Kept it too real
I kno U workin' (Love the production, sounds nice with my car audio system)
You
1 Mo time
Runnin my Momma Crazy

In all honesty, you would have to take this cd for what its worth. Either your going to Love it or Hate it.

Plies has a phenomenal underground and street presence on the strength of his infamous mixtapes and live shows. He is a real life block hugger who happened to learn how to tell his story in rhyme. If you want it on the real check out the new Plies mixtape "REAL DEFINITIONS". That's the real testament!

Plies is another rapper that I was introduced to on MTV Hits. I listened to his album The Real Testament, and, well, I'm really not impressed.

But I do have to hand it to him. It seems the easy way to get a hit nowadays is to throw T-Pain or Akon on your track, which is probably why the respective songs "Shawty" and "Hypnotized" had good standings on the Billboard Hot 100. Disposable or not, though, those two songs are a lot better than the rest of the album; the only other song that really stands out is possibly "Kept It Too Real", where he laments on how his buddies screwed him over.

Everything else pretty much falls flat. First you have the mindless club tracks ("Money Straight"; "Friday"; "I Am the Club"); then you have the obligatory sexual songs: "1 Mo Time" is ridiculous because even though he cheated on his girl, he asks if they can "f one mo' time", and the Tank-assisted "You" is so graphic that it would even make Too $hort wince. And "Goons Lurkin" is hard to get into because the production as well as Plies' rapping is so slow that it sounds like the song is screwed and chopped, but it isn't.

Plies also fails when he tries to tell stories. He tries to pull the race card on "100 Years" when he talks about one of his buddies getting locked up; and on "Runnin My Momma Crazy", he says he hates driving his mother out of her mind by bangin' in the streets, and if he really wants to stop hurting Momma, there's a simple solution: STOP BANGIN' IN THE STREETS!!! Anyway, "On My D" is hard to relate to also, as he talks about self-encouragement by stating that HE'S on his d. Who says that?

I was surprised to learn that Plies is 31, because this sounds more like the kind of album that anyone with "young" or "lil" in front of their name would create. Though this disc would still probably bump in the club, here's the real testament: the album sucks.

Anthony Rupert

i give Plies his props for comin in the game with them real topics! straight raw street sh t! if you been through this type of stuff you'll feel this, if not oh well just listen.

even tho some of his music is dirty, and i only listen to the clean version. he is very talented young man, and i like his music, especially the ones that has a meaning, like runnin' my mama crazy. i bought that for my son lol. thank you plies