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24: How did you get signed to Slip-N-Slide
Records?
Plies: I had a situation in Fort Meyers that
was working real good. Me and my brother started a record label called Big Gates
Records and had our area on lock. We called it Southwest Florida. From that we
had a huge buzz and I guess the rest is history.
24: What do you feel you can bring to
the table as an artist?
Plies: I feel like I bring realalitiy to the
table I bring my life experiences and straightforward honesty.
24: Is there much of a difference in the
Hip Hop scene in Fort Myers compared to down in Miami?
Plies: I feel like the same shit happens every
where, if there is a difference it would be that when you from a smaller city
and your beef with someone your likely to see that person compared to a larger
city you might not bump heads for 6 months.
24: How was it working with Nitti?
Plies: It was a pleasure of mine, to do records
with people that you have a relationship with is a whole different thing then
when you don’t. I had the good fortune of Nitti reaching out to me and
let me know how he respected what I do and my situation. I try to separate this
music shit and deal with the people I would fuck with outside of music and he’s
one of those guys.
24: What’s the name of the album
and when will it be in stores?
Plies: The Real Nigga Bible is the name of
the album at the moment and it should be in stores around the end of May or
beginning of June.
24: What would you say is the biggest
downfall about being an artist and being in the spotlight 24/7?
Plies: Becoming successful in anything that
you do has its pros and cons my overview of this business is imagine a nigga
giving you a million dollars then tell you after you spend it let him kill you.
Any person that’s successful there’s a mother fucker ready to kill
you because of it and at the same time there’s a mother fucker willing
to die for you.
24: Do you feel that when your album drops
it will be able to take Slip-N-Slide to another level similar to what Rick Ross
did with the “Port Of Miami”, because a lot of people outside of
Florida Only familiarize the label with Trick Daddy or Trina?
Plies: I think its important to me man to make
every mother fucker around me look right and I take that burden upon myself
whether its my brother at Big Gates Records, Ted at Slip-N-Slide, to the whole
Atlantic family. It’s a personal responsibility that I take for all the
people who believed in me, they just saved another nigga from being in the prison
system. Not saying that next year this time I wont be in prison I don’t
know what the future holds but I put that responsibility on my shoulders.
24: Before I did this interview with you
I always heard about how crazy a Plies show was tell me a little about a Plies
performance?
Plies: I like to call it choir rehearsal anytime
when you can get no less then a thousand to 1500 people on a Monday, Tuseday,
Thursday, inside and outside the club reciting 15-20 songs depending on how
I feel that day word for word the closest thing I have seen to that was choir
rehearsal. I understand the importance of giving a good show I mean my fans
wont pay to listen to the president so for a person to pay $75.00 or $100.00
to get into the club to watch me that’s something I cherish.
24: I recently heard your song “In
Love With Money” featuring T.I. How did that collaboration come about?
Plies: He actually reached out and called me
and that speaks volumes about a dude that’s one of the biggest artist
in the game right now reaching out to me who has a label situation but is not
on T.V. or successful commercially. In this game there’s a lot of niggaz
who here niggaz shit and respect it but don’t show love because of they’re
pride or egos are too big, and afraid that a nigga might surpass them. So for
T.I. to reach out and call me that let me know why he was so successful and
knows how to separate personal from business and that’s one of my highlights
of my career so far.
24: When you decide to step away from
the Music Industry, what do you want the fans to say about Plies?
Plies: Not only that I made a difference but
I spoke about the things in my life that I felt was important to me. Me speaking
for the niggaz locked up doing life that shit means something to me because
I understand the importance of being the voice of niggaz that didn’t have
the proper lawyers or could not afford the right lawyers. I want to speak for
the niggaz locked up and didn’t even do the crime to those out there grinding
on they’re last dollar trying to make a way. If I could be remembered
for not how many girls I fucked or cars I bought, but for being the spoke’s
person for the real niggaz out there I’m good with that.
24: Anything you want to promote?
Plies: I just want to promote my album The
Real Nigga Bible and I appreciate you Jay for taking out from your time and
doing this interview. I feel real good about 2007 running my whole region right
now got a whole state on my back so it’s a beautiful situation right now I can’t
complain.
Interview by: Jay Carter
