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Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075678998324
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
Release Date: 2007-08-07
Studio: Atlantic / Wea
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I’m not tryin’ to impress anyone on how hard my struggle was, or how messed up the conditions were where I came from,' says Plies. I feel like most of the people in my situation come from the same type of background, the same type of environment.Hailed as one of the realest n****s you will ever know, the Ft. Myers based rapper has already established a phenomenal underground and street presence on the strength of his infamous mixtapes and live show. Plies is a realest who happened to learn how to tell his story in rhyme. This is why the streets love him. And he reveals his revelations of earning stripes with the summer ’07 release of his Big Gates/Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic debut, The Real Testament. Born in Ft. Myers, Florida, Plies grew up in the East Dunbar section of the city. It’s a small town, but it’s a town that reflects so much to me. You’ve got two separate sides you’ve got the serious side, then you’ve got the gutter side. I called it Pakistan because young gits were running around with choppers and s**t. Despite coming of age in the Michigan Court Projects, Plies says he wouldn’t change it for the world. 'The only thing adversity does is reintroduce you to yourself. I got the most anticipated situation in the streets right now', says Plies. The streets told me that.
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Summary: Plies
Comment: im laughing at this cat first of all plies is very ugly
secondly plies your lame stop rapping
the south is bringing a lotta trash to the table
and plies is no exception he goes on and on about his
escapades with ugly smelly nappyheaded black girls
i dont like black girls and i dont like black women
this type of music is very bland if you even want
to call this music and oh yeah F the south!
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Summary: Only Hood people can understand
Comment: This is the realist album I have heard in a long time. This album is for real hood folks and all fellas. Over 50% of this album I can relate too or anybody from any where in world at lease one song. If someone wanted to know what the hood is like this is a great way to find out this album. Piles touch home for alot people real talk this album get 2 more stars from me. I would buy it twice.
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Summary: Real Definitions is by far the Real Testament
Comment: 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!
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Summary: Real dude here
Comment: I litened to some interviews of Plies on youtube and I was supprised how smart this guy is he really is a real down to earth dude. Listening to his cd he really thows what he sees all his pain right in your face he don't hold anything back. This cd is for the streets.
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Summary: 2-1/2 stars -- Why in the world did I listen to this?
Comment: 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
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