Hip Hop has come to a point where reality is hidden underneath glitz, glamour, bling and Bull Sh*t. That fact is no more evident than in the artist known as Plies. Business man? Maybe. Hustler? Certainly. Goon? doubtfully. Clown? Definitely.
If you listen to his music, it is filled with street proclamations and assurances of a stone cold killer. If you listen to his interviews, they display an educated man with a knowledgeable business mind. So which is he? Is it that a street goon can also be well educated and well spoken, or that an educated man can use an ignorant image to sell records? I choose the latter.
I have no problem with hardcore music. I am a fan of much of it. But when you portray an image that is beyond your scope, you are lying to our youth. When you mispronounce words purposely to add a flavorful sound(one which our children mimic to live up to the image), you are a liar. When you have a college education that is never mentioned, but you rap constantly about jail and your willingness to kill your own people, you are a fake.
I don't know him, but I have seen enough to tell me that he is not who he portrays. Of course we have that problem with many of our hip-hop artists today. I picked him because if you listen to him speak, he seems to know better. The wealth that he accrues from his records to me is payment for nothing more than modern day Coonery. I hope it is worth his soul!!!!
That's real Talk!
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