Subject: Plies (Rapper)

• Monday Night: OZONE Awards at the James L. Knight Center

  August 15, 2007

• DJ Khaled's Annual Birthday Bash TONIGHT

  November 19, 2007

• The Party Crasher – DJ Khaled’s Annual Birthday Blowout at Mansion

  November 20, 2007

• MTV's Hottest MC's List Gives Florida Props

  May 20, 2008

• Plies' New Album, Da Realist, in Stores Today

  For those that don't already know, Plies' highly anticipated second album of the year, Da Realist, is available in stores today. It's not common for artists, especially rappers, to release multiple albums in one year, but Plies, who was born and raised in Fort Myers, seems determined to prove something to the hip-hop general public. When his first album of 2008, Definition of Real, came out in June, its first week sales topped 250,000 units. That surpassed everyone's expectations -- and that was

  December 16, 2008

• The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

  Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously absurd record or two in 2008. Here are the most preposterous rap songs of 2008. RICK ROSS, FEATURING T-PAIN "The Boss" (Def Jam) Though Rick Ross claimed on his debut album, Port of Miami, to know Manuel Noriega,

  December 22, 2008

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'll be a feast for

  December 24, 2008

• Album Review: Plies, Da REAList

  Da REAList is not Plies' meditation on Platonic realism; it's mostly just demonstrably false braggadocio and sentimental hooey. (He could have eliminated this confusion by calling it Da REALest.) The main problem is that a July Hip Hop DX report showed that despite his claims to be a lifelong thug, he's actually only been arrested twice, fairly recently, for misdemeanors. (He also studied sociology for a time at the University of South Florida.) And so unlike his album of just six months ago, De

  December 29, 2008

• The Curse of Carol City High: When Your Best Friend is Murdered and You Know Who Did It

  In "The Curse", our feature article which hits streets tomorrow, New Times tells the tragic story of Carol City High's Class of 2006, which has lost six of its members to arbitrary street deaths, including five to gunfire. These were "good" kids- none of them involved in gangs or the drug trade- and the most recent death happened just last May, when 21-year old graduate Brian Dupree, a father of two known for an incessant sense of humor, was killed in a driveby while sitting in his girlfriend's

  February 10, 2009

• The 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

  December 25, 2008

• Best Local Music Albums of 2008

  December 25, 2008

• Beyond the Hood

  DJ Khaled drops We Global.

  October 9, 2008

• Make It Rain

  August 30, 2007

• Rollin' with the Holy

  August 16, 2007

• United and It Feels So Good

  August 24, 2006

• Slip N Slide Signs Jagged Edge; Ted Lucas Says It Marks a New Direction for the Label

  via myspace.com/jaggededgeJagged EdgeSlip N Slide Records announced earlier this week that the label had signed Jagged Edge, the Atlanta-based R&B group that clubgoers probably best remember for the 2001 hit "Where the Party At." Of course at first glance, that's a wise business decision for any independent label -- Jagged Edge's last five albums have all charted in the top ten. But it definitely signals a change for Slip N Slide, which, up to now, has largely focused on developing new artis

  May 22, 2009

• Prunk TV: Phone Calls From Plies, Carol City Cartel in Night Vision

  Yours truly is now a certified GOON, but we'll get to that in a minute. I got a text over the weekend that Miami's Triple C will be releasing their debut album on October 27, so we met up for some bloodshot eyes, tequila sunrise, realize that you're born to die, let's make some video. Click on the arrow, and watch the party. Leave a comment. Are you ready to get prunked?! I recently spoke with native Floridian, Algernod Lanier Washington (Plies) on a sunny Monday morning. I had been workin

  September 16, 2009

• Slip-N-Slide DJ Purfiya Wants To Be As Big As DJ Khaled

  via Purfiya's myspaceDiamond and DJ Purfiya​DJ Purfiya is on the streets grinding.Not only is the team Slip-N-Slide DJ from southwest Florida not dead, he's living with purpose.Last week we brought you news of the Purfiya death hoax that was circulated via Twitter.We also interviewed his former boss, Howard Roberts, CEO and founder of Firmlife Entertainment, who claims to have fired Purfiya over disputes on money and loyalty.We got an email from Purfiya saying he wanted to respond to those all

  November 10, 2009

• Video: Ms. Jones, "Broward County First Lady"

  She calls herself Ms. Jones, Broward County First Lady and according to her Myspace page "A fake bitch will take you were you need to go - A real bitch throws you her keys and says it needs gas!"She has a song called "Ice Cream" that follows the South Florida tradition of sexplicit fuck music. "Damn boy see that ass look nice, you know you wanna hit that ass for the right price. Ima slaughter your cock, and make my pussy pop. Hot girl drop drop it like it's hot."She also has a song called "St

  November 11, 2009