Plies’ Criminal Past Now In Question?
The witch hunt for made up past histories by rappers has now moved on to the, “Definition of Real,” Mr.Plies. HipHopDX did an extensive search to see if he was arrested for anything substantial in his life.
HipHopDX has obtained documentation from the state of Florida that lists the “definition of real” rapper’s first real run-in with the law to have not taken place until two years ago, on April 12, 2006, when Plies - real name Algernod Lanier Washington, born May 22, 1976 - would have been on the eve of his 30th birthday and just beginning his ascension to his current status of gold-certified rap star.
But there are the occasional past tense references to what appear to be claims of his own criminal activity. One glaring example can be found during his lament on the suffering his alleged criminal activities caused his mother on “Runnin My Momma Crazy,” in which he recollects: “Remember the nights, me sittin’ up in a cold cell/I’m wakin’ ya up out’cha sleep, it’s me callin’ you from jail.” While passionate, his verse’s claim that he was ever in a “cold cell” now appears to be untruthful, as according to the FDLE’s report Plies was never in jail for any period of time prior to 2006.
Full Story: HipHopDX
Too early to tell on this one, I’m sure Plies will make a response if the story becomes popular online. Buy anyway props to Plies for creating a non-profit organization.
63 Comments so far
1st…all these rappers are FaKe!!!..except JAy-Z, YouNg JeEzy,n LasT But NoT LeaSt R.I.P StaCk buNdLez
Plies has a BS Degree, doesn’t he? That’s what up. It’s quite foolish to think most of these new rappers did what they claim in they rhymes. It’s just music, Ross might of been a CO but the production and music on his last record was nice.
It’s just rap but 2 bad rap’s current fanbase will call them guys phony. Plies got a degree, even though he talks like he came from the jects, homeboy was probably str8 middle class. I just hate the way his label putting that goon picture out there to advertise him, YOUNG BUCK DID IT 1ST
NOT AGAIN..I FEEL BAD FOR PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE ALL THIS RUBBISH…SOME PEOPLE FEEL THEY GOTTA PROVE THEIR BLACKNESS BY GOING TO JAIL…FAILING IN SCHOOL..SELLINGS DRUGS…CURSING WOMEN…= “A REAL NIGGA”…..BLACK IS WHAT I AM NOT TRYING TO ME..SO WHAT IF PILES DIDNT GO TO JAIL….GOOOD… UR NOT SUPPOSED TO GO TO JAIL IGNORANT FOOLISH PEOPLE….ONLY BLACK PEOPLE CELBRATE IGNORANCE…THATS WHY MORE BLACK MEN R GONNA KEPEP GOING TO JAIL…THE JEWS GOT BARTIZAH….WE HAVE PRISON
first off, i would never buy a plies album but
you know what tho?
plies gets a pass cause he’s actually tackling social issues in his tracks and i see him as a kinda messenger of his hood, speaking for those with no voice.
he’s got tracks about the prison industrial complex among other things. i ain’t no fan but plies has a broader message..most of our favorite rappers do that, ain’t no thang
ross was pure egotistical, self-indulgence…so he deserves whatever blow his career takes from here.
DAMN IT IS NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR RAPPERS FROM FLORIDA RIGHT ABOUT NOW….FIRST RICKY ROSS NOW PLIES..BTW AM I THE ONLY PERSON THAT DIDNT KNOW HE WAS 30? DAMMMMMMMMNNNN. I THOUGHT HE WAS LIKE 20, 25 AT THE MOST….THEN AGAIN I NEVER REALLY FUCKED WITH PLIES LIKE THAT, BUST IT BABY IS MY SHIT THO…BUST IT BAAAABBBBAYYY!
i been tellin niggas he seemed fake to me but i thought rick ross was real so i cant call it
First of all I would never listen to Plies or eveb buy an album but I’m glad all these fake ass rappers are bein exsposed for what they are. You can’t lie to niggas, the only people who have bein fooled is anyone who brought wack ass Ross & Plies albums so its these stupid ass fans for beileving these wack ass artists.
@ 3 Agree with you people celebrating going to jail, selling coke, etc as some kind of trophy.
Interesting..
I don’t know where the exposure is. I doubt any of you people listened to any of these rappers lyrics and tried to analyze if they really did all that they purported or were ever that gangster. If the music’s good move on.
Who gives a dayum…..I would like you to expose them all ….especially the ones with no criminal background…so the KIDS today will know and understand that you dont have to be a criminal to be successful ….I dont understand the attractiveness that the public have for niggas that are drug dealing murderers…It’s one thing to me the rap about that stuff…its just songs to me…but its another for the public to actually think theses niggas are what they say in their music…are we really that closed minded and gullable…and for HIPHOPDX…I love the site for the new music postings..but your staff really need to get a fuggin LIFE…and stop diggin up dirt on other niggas….dayum how gay is that! U might get shot for attempting to expose these drug dealing criminals true background for ruining their careers…that is what you are attempting to do right?? I am still going to buy anybody that makes a song that I like and enjoy…I dont give a fugg what you use to do or you never done…except for rapping KIDS….
plies is the definition of awful his flow is beyond the worst thing ive ever heard
dude I work with says his brother played football with Plies & he said that dude had some speed. He wasn’t using it to run from the cops
Here’s a prediction: I bet these rumors don’t stick like the Rick Ross C.O. thing will.
Plies will be proven ‘real’
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shout out 2 all niggaz who don’t like plies….this nigga is garbage,junk,definition of fake,shouldn’t b rap’n,niggaz want to potray this thug life which never existed…y? does it make u a better person,people would respect u more…no not @ all…Never did like plies never would buy a plies album never would download a plies album….If u check dude out n an interview,he b trying so hard to sound intelligent,but he end up sounding stupid trying to use all those big words and shit..c’mon dude PHUCK PLIES FAKES ASS WANNA B RAPPER
Who cares if the nigga did this stuff or not. If he didn’t then he has a good imagination. Which is still entertainment. I am not into the Keep it Real syndrome from a criminal perspective. It’s enough black men with criminal records they can’t shake. This is entertainment not reality nothing these cats do is reak from the money they claim to make to the imagination.
<–not a Plies fan, but he does speak alot of truth. and he doens’t even come off as a “goon” type to me. so, i don’t see a problem. just tired of these niggas thinking they need a “back” story to they careers. wtf wrong with these dudes? spit realness. please. that lyin shit is out. we in the age of information, you WILL be exposed whether the artists or the fans like it or not. i hope this encourages future emcees to be as real as possible…..im seein a revolution in hip-hop lately and i predict progress. jenny jones should be next with this “exposure explosion”….hahaha
not a fan of his but you can figure that was from being a juvenile you know you wont see anything of a juveniles record unless in would contain murder or something like that
@ 11
Since when did piles hav a flow? If he did he jacked it off a punch drunk rocky balboa… So slow….
So many fake ass rappers around now days… wat ever happened 2 da real niggaz like pac , biggie…. so many niggaz try claim a life dat they’ve never lived…
SO HE SOFT CUZ HE NEVA BEEN IN JAIL???FUCK OUTTA HERE BUT IF HE LIED ABOUT BEING IN JAIL BEFORE HE WAS FAMOUS THEN HE FAKE…BUT IT DONT MEAN HE SOFT…GET IT
…my question iz; why intelligent MC’z are not popular…to me it just means that the culture of black music and black america are in general skin-deep and superficial…however pac and biggie paved the ways in both directions (#19)…while biggie spoke on real situations, on his last album he started to glorify the gucci dis and fendi dat…now an artist can sell entire albums by glorifying their acquisitions aka idol worship…
back to the ? at hand…iz it lack of education to understand intelligent rhymes, market dictation, peer pressure, or just the ease of not having to think too hard, basically laziness…
Glad these fake rappers are gettn exposed…may encourage them to start bein more real..So inturn exposing them may save Hip-Hop!
all plies albums consist of half real goon thuggish shit, or really get on some supadupa soft shit for the ladies…aint no middle ground, im not knocking his music even though its gimmick and most of his songs your average male can relate to if you get gurls, but the super goon shit to a certain extent could come off as believable at times but hes just tellin a story but im simply not surprised at this expose on plies
I actually had a discussion with my friends about Plies this weekend. This man is actually a genius. He probably sat around one day and thought, “With the state of Hip-Hop today, how many people will go out and buy an album full of complete ignorance?” Then he created this character, Plies, which is a misspelling of a hand tool. People bought into it, and now he writes songs about sitting in people’s bushes and people still buy his albums.
Plies isn’t the only rapper who has displayed fakeassness…
I just don’t understand y rappers feel the need to lie about their past on being n jail selling drugs r whatever it may b…let me say I’ve been to jail and ain’t nothing pretty about it…Never sold any weight but was around it all my life…so that made alot of ppl think that I did because some of the ppl I was affiliated with but not at one time did I lie about push’n weight because I felt that their was no need to because that wasn’t gonna make ppl like me more if anything they would dislike you instead of like u…wit that being said 2 plies who wanna b a goon and a ex con and all that other bull shit…work on trying 2 speak properly during an interview and making a complete sentence,instead of trying to be something you’re not….504 all day
all the florida niggas gettin callled out
Yo we getting to caught up with the sell. Thats Rappers are trying to do convince you that their a 100% real.
Fact of the matter is none of the above is real. We suppose to buy shit on their ability.
50cents said:
They know they can’t shine if I’m around the rhyme/Been on parole since 94 cuz I commit the crime
I send you my line, I did a three to nine
If d’s ran up in my crib, you know who droppin dimes
Nigga shock program is only 7 months. ask 50 about Network community meeting(ASAT/CASAT)which made him a better snitch to give you a better album which was the last hottest album in hip hop “Get Rich or Die Trying”
If you buying shit because your convinced they did this shit you got jerked. Maybe u should call the label and see if you can get a refund for all that gangsta shit u ever cop’d
Still feel that Jada and Ghost, CNN, Jeezy, Gucci and Clipse is the closes shit to the streets..
Not saying i condone the shit cause I would hate to see a another rap dude laid out on the stretcher for trying to prove to me that he that GANGSTA.
An o yeah I’ve seen some of these so called hard niggas UPTwn and in BK without the jewels so u call it.
TUCK it or Duck it..
#19
shut the fuck up..Pac and Big wasnt Gangstas either you fool.
Bigs oown momz said he lived good and his own hoimes said he sold crack for 1 week.
Pac wasnt no gangsta until he came to Death Row
Stop talkin mess just cuz you think everything in the 90s was 100 “real”
I love Pac and Big but thats the truth.
Bottom line is, WHY ARE YOU LOOKIN UP TO RAPPERS?
You niggas actually believe these dudes be doin the shit they talkin about?
Its you niggaz who need a fuckin mind of your own you braindead ass niggas
27& 28 Both know whats up.
PAC died trying to live out BISHOP role from JUICE. B4 that he was involved with that black rights shit. Then if u got a real memory PAC said he tried to HUSLE but could’nt because he was getting jerked and robbed.
BIG was official but his man in BK Damion the same dude that just did 6 yrs for shotting at CNN niggas at Hot 97.
This is the same guy that called BIG moms when he died that night in LA.
what I’m saying is rappers are telling tales from lil bit shit they may have done or niggas from they hood has done.
RAPPERS are suppose to be Reporters of their enviroments they had hardship in.
We suppose to learn from it not Idolize… but we done flipped the script by watching the Twin Towers Fall and too much Reality TV
Clifford Harris, Jamal Barrow, Dwight Grant, Barry Reese, Corey Miller, Tab Virgil Jr…..just to name a few that have really lived the life of crime and has a background to prove it…..im not in any way glorifying it…but maybe niggas would start being themselves again real shit! WHY LIE? Rap about real shit that goes on around your way. Thats like me saying i was in a shoot out last night in a gated comunitty in beverly hills. Serves them fuckers right yo. I missed the good ole days when niggas was talking about how much skills and flow they had and talkin about girls and freakin shorties and shit. Now its all about watch me youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, and fuckin bust it babies!!! Makes no kind of sense. Imma make a rap about how AIDS is the number killer of black women between the ages of 25-34! then watch my cd grow cob webs on the fuckin shelf. thats whats wrong wit black people today we hang our fucking selves….. look at rick ross WHAT A DUMB BITCH! Im from MIAMI, as soon as the C.O. story came out nigga shoulda juss came clean and said he was sufferin and needed a little work he had a hook up in the system and he decided to run wit it instead of bein on the streets AT THAT TIME….but instead he lookin stupid talking bout no he wasnt…..and how trick daddy lied on him. SO now his card is pulled and he looks and is a fucking phony. If anyone googles boobies boys from miami dade county they will see how dangerous all these niggas was…it is said that ross was one of them….i guess he is the only one that hasnt went to jail. Fucking idiot. Big ups to the real niggas that rap the real, because they been through it. And just to make a valid point… hip hop is poetry. Poetry is an expression of ones thoughts so if a nigga wanna talk about bustin glocks and selling kilo’s thats fine. As long as he is doin just that! o yea shout out to chi ali…..(BAP) LOL
GOON? wow are we reinforcing stereotypes?
I feel PLIES AND RICK ROSS think they should cut it out and be like BOW WOW an do R&B Collabs they killin it now they don’t need to talk that thug shit no more.
Shit most of us got criminal background and burners so what u saying LU. I’m saying the publicty and the backlash yo WTF.
Shine stuck by hiself now. TI whole nother issue with him then the 16 yr. old C Murdered over a rap battle counts for something? WOW we got along way to go..
feel u GNice cause what we saying we wanna be like Steady B and COOL C who murdered a black woman cop in PHILLY?
Cassidy shit was based on protecting his so I can respect but all that other shit is pure ignorance yo.
RAP IS JUST ENTERTAINMENT YALL NIGGAS GOTTA GROW UP AND BE ADULTS! LOL WHEN U LISTEN TO THESE SONGS ARE YOU REALLY THINKIN YEAH I LIKE THIS SHIT CUZ THIS NIGGA IS REAL HE A THUG HES THE MOST GANGSTA NIGGA OUT ??????? HUH ?????
OHHHHHHHHHHH HELL NAW U AINT LOL
34 u right too. u see what it is.
10 n 34 put it best…i think erybody that is going crazy over this are ignorant, Im not a fan of plies he doesnt really have a flow to me, rick ross not the best either but i bought trilla and the shit roll to me, when his next album come roun and he got some cuts on there like this last one imma cop it. Yall niggas prolly arent fans of these dudes and never will be and thats cool but why take it beyond their music? If your fav rapper was exposed, you would really stop listenin to his music??? HOV the goat if sumtin came up foul bout that dude, niggas still gon hold him down. Wayne kissed a nigga on the mouth, he sold a milli the 1st week cmon you smucks if its “good” music niggas will cop i think. Niggas dat aint fans stay with da steady hate….look at Nas he spittin sume real shit and aint got no dirt flying roun wit him but he only sold 200 thou his 1st week…why is that?!?
@Jay-Reckless
No not at all but to listen to a bunch of people who swear that their lyrics are true but get exposed as liars. That’s annoying. It’s like reading an autobiography about a certain person then you expect the book to be about his real life or else you feel cheated if everything in the book are made up. I listen to all kinds of music and rap music is the only music genre where so many artists are nothing but actors and claim to be something they are not. You can’t take ppl like that seriously. Just be true to yourself and rap about things you know about.
21#
intelligent rappers are popular if dey work towards it… for example .. look at ludacris.. he aint no gangster or gangbanger.. he a straight up nigga dat focused on rap and made itt…so i hope this answers ur question..
MY WHOLE THING IS WHO’S TO SAY DAT HE AIN’T DONE DIRT JUST BECAUSE HE AIN’T BEEN LOCKED. THE WHOLE POINT IS IF YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING DO IT WITHOUT GETTIN CAUGHT!!!
THE GAME IS TO BE SOLD NOT TOLD.
@ #1
Why is jay-Z real? he aint livein what he rap about he aint never was hustlin no bricks and shit F… Outta heree!
2nd DO U HAVE TO HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD NOW TO PROOF U EVER DID SOMETHING???
IF U HAVE ONE THAT MEANS U GOT BUSTED,AND U FAILED 2 DO THE CRIME.
I KNEW PILES WAS FAKE FROM THE START
NAH YALL GOT IT TWISTED…..I WASNT PRAISING, I AGREE THE SHIT WAS STUPID THAT THEY DID I WAS BEING SARCASTIC.I WAS JUST STATING THAT THEY HAVE BEEN TO JAIL FOR ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING. THE BASIS OF ALL THATS GOIN ON RIGHT NOW….WE JUST NEED WARRIORS. EVERYONE WANTS TO BE A GANGSTER….YOU DONT HAVE TO BE A GANGSTER TO GET YOUR POINT ACROSS, OR TO STAND FOR SOMETHING, AND YOU DAMN SURE AINT GOT TO BE A GANGSTER OR SELL KILOS TO RAP.IM NOT TOO VEX IM JUSS SAYIN I WISH NIGGAS WOULD RAP ABOUT REAL SHIT…OR IF YOU BEEN THROUGH IT AND FEEL LIKE EXPRESSING YOURSELF FEEL FREE! CAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOUR A GROWN MAN AND YOU CANT PICK SENSE OUTTA NON SENSE YOUR A WASTE OF SPERM. LIKE WHEN B.I.G. WAS TALKIN ABOUT NOT LIVING ANYMORE AND REAL LIFE PROBLEMS THAT SHIT WAS COOL. IF I BUSS MY GUN IM BUSSIN FOR A REASON, IM NOT GONNA SHOOT UP SOMEWHERE JUST TO COME RAP ABOUT IT NEXT WEEK. THAT SHIT IS DUMB AND THAT IS WHAT BLACK PEOPLE WANNA HEAR AND DO. WE FEED OFF OF BULLSHIT AND LIVE AND CONSUME IN IT. NIGGAS DONT WANNA HEAR ABOUT HOW OUR GENERATION IS GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE FIRST EVER BLACK PRESIDENT AND HOW GREAT THATS GONNA BE. NIGGAS JUST WANT TO HEAR ABOUT TRICKING AND BITCHES AND THESE LIES ABOUT HOW THESE DUDES ARE DUCKING AND DODGIN THE FEDS. LOL, SHIT IS CRAZY THOUGH…..NIGGAS IS GONNA LEARN.
HAHA….LETS EXPOSE ALL DEM FAKE ASS THUGS FROM MIAMI!!!
ONLY REAL NIGGA IS TRICK DADDY…!!!!!!!!!
LOL @ Algernod Lanier Washington
Who gives a fhuk, worry about ya own lives, you either listen to his music or you dont, only lame niggas with clearly too much time on they hands gon go thru someones past and check their criminal records LOL
Anyways dudes a joke.
LOL @ people reducing this unmasking of random lying rappers to people glorying death, jail, and drugs. ::smh:: Get a clue.
So boys….how does it feel, to slowly start to discover that your favorite rappers whom you’ve fashioned your lives after are not even close to the synthetic societal terrors and insolent failures you’ve all broken your necks to become?
Do you feel hoed? Well you should, because they’ve pimped the hell out of your mind to get that 12-15 dollars.
The bad thing is the next set of rappers will make sure they put in work on the streets to boost their credibility. So either way, it’s a no win situation. If you need to be something you are not to get attention thats bad. If people buy the shit because they think it’s hard, you’re just fuckin dumb and you need to grow up.
Too many real issues in the world…. why they fuck did i even reply to this.
See, caught in the never ending cycle.
ROSS AND PLIES WOULD BE DONE IF THIS WAS THE 90′S
BUT NOW IT’LL BE BRUSHED UNDER THE RUG, HIP-HOP AINT STREET NO MORE AND THATS JUST WHAT IT IS
AND REAL QUICK AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO FINDS IT FUNNY THAT PLIES THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA START A NEW CATCH PHRASE WITH “BUST IT BABY” AND NOBODY USES THAT SHIT…..LOL….YOU KNOW HE THOUGHT HE WAS STARTIN A TREND
Let me speak on it. All your favorite rappers are either fake or not as hardcore as they perpetuate themselves to be. That goes for Wayne, Jay, Algenord, Officer Ross, 5-0….whoever.
Pac and Big were NOT gangstas. They just ran with the wrong people. That can get you killed too.
As for Algenord, this muthafucka been claiming he’s the realest nigga alive. I actually would like to see him get exposed. When a considerable part of your music is your realness, your realness comes to question. Ask Officer Ross
Plies is like 5′2, got the body of a 14 year old boy and he’s in his 30’s talkin bout bust it baby’s
Co-sign “Clipz”, dude is a joke.
Fuck him the bitches like fucking to his music. “Bust it baby” and “get you wet” got the bitches open and ready to fuck
This is nothing new. Pac went to a performing arts high school for drama…or did you not know?
Its the “Entertainment Industry”. Its an industry built for the sole purpose of entertaining you. They pump fake characters out left and right. When you believe them, they win.
Read up.
Tre
What I’m more interested in is his age. Didn’t dude claim to be mad younger. Nigga was born in 76 lol.
who cares. this man would rob n kill me. obama!
no 3 who the fuck goes 2 jail or lie bout shit 2 prove there black?? shut ya punk ass up. i know u a white boy.
90% of these dudes are fake, there’s no way you can rap about crimes you committed or have knowledge of without gettin caught up! And if there was i wouldn’t try to be the 1st one to test the waters…
looks like these Fl kats are doin themselves in right now though!!!
HAhahahaha Expose these phonies !!!!!!!!
These dudes need to stop lol
I guess that last quote @ the end of Paid in full the movie was true. “Nowadayz u dont have to be a real gangsta, You could just frunt and act like 1 on TV” hahahahahah
Rap some positve shiiiiiit insted of fakein the funk ya digg. You betta off bein’ yaself than tryin’ 2 uphold a image ur not.
To Tell You The Truth I Could Care Less If a Rapper Is Real Or Not, I Know That The Majority Of Rappers In The Game Aint Really Livin The Shit They Rap About, Like Jay Said “This Is Only Entertainment” ..I Don’t Listen To Certain Rappers Because I Think Their Real . I Listen To Them Because I Like Their Music. Thats Why I’m Going To Continue To Listen to Rick Ross, As Long As He Keeps Coming With That Fire. I Really Don’t Care About What They Did Or Didn’t Do In Their Pass, If They Decide To Keep it Real,Cool But If They Don’t Then Thats On Them.
It is entertainment, and at the end of the day it is still a business..i still got mixed feelings on his situation though..i wanna see how he reacts..
He is definitely gonna get backlash on this one.
THE MEDIA AND THE RECORD BUYING PUBLIC…YOU….MADE EVERY YOUNG BLACK MALE BELIEVE THAT HE WILL NEVER SELL UNLESS HE RHYMES ABOUT SELLIN DRUGS AND BUSTIN GUNS.
SO WHEN YOU LOOKIN FOR SOMEONE TO BLAME FOR ALL THESE RAPPERS LYING…..TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR…
“NEXT TIME THEY ASK WHO KILLED IT,SAY,WE DID” J.BUDDENS
mmm
QUESTION: Is Hip Hop only based on reality or is it just an artform of expression? Do the fans really expect rapper’s to be what they rap about? Do fans really believe that the boats, big houses, and women we see in the videos are the daily lives of these rappers?
LOL ” He got a good imagination”
nobody ever said their was anything wrong about doing good in life,but people like plies,lil wayne,game and rick ross did good and then get on record and lie about their lives.