**** I forgot all about that KRS-One moment haha! We were real backpackers back then, so we thought that was the biggest thing in the world for Peedo then.
Oh there's a good chance I have a pic of the twins then if I go through all my old flicks. But yeah Trick, man, that one hurt me as a fan. He used to roll up to Killian when I was in high school in the green donk. Was always a fan. Then once I got to work with him...never meet your heroes they always say. He used to buy out the stock of my Defend Dade shirts. Same ones Pit used to rock (Culo video shoot was at our stage at Calle Ocho)...and again with Khaled, fast forward several years and he has now again encroached and taken Defend Dade and appropriated it in his video. But enough about him lol
Here's the thing with Plies...he wrote Tell Dem Krackers Dat for one of Gates' artists in Fort Myers. He couldn't lay it down right, so Plies recorded it. Gates released it...it got hot in Fort Myers. Plies at this point is doing club promo, etc...now he is suddenly an artist and he never wanted to be. B-Trice was at Edison Mall in Lee County and got the CD. He brought it back to Touche at Slip N Slide. That parlayed into a "deal". Ted basically let them use the SNS logo without actually signing them. Plies released 36 Ounces. Then Bigga Rankin re-released it with him talking over it. It took over Duval/North Florida...Now Ted wants to get behind Plies. Plies was always writing his brother's artists' music. As everyone knows, he's a slick talker and that translates well...so much slang/pronunciations he popularized that is still used today. But he was always a hesitant artist. Him and I just had good creative chemistry and gelled so I could get the work out of him. Which is why I always pushed him to talk about real issues. The production I gave him specifically guided that.
I also was very specific to work with no-name/up and comers. DVS who did Runnin My Momma Crazy, Heard of Me, Make A Movie, Dat B*tch, Stressin was a Cane and went to UM with me. T-Minus (Nicki Minaj "Moment of Life") and Philip Lawrence (Bruno Mar's songwriting partner) all had their first placements on Plies albums (Co-Defendant and You). Midnight Black had basically only did two records for Jeezy at that point. Drumma Boy's first single was Shawty. JR was essentially our go-to for radio records because he had a great ear for classic R&B material (Bust It Baby - Janet Jackson/Two Occassions - The Deele/Becky - Marvin ***). However, my favorite of all the producers I brought on was BC, who does the in-game music for the Houston Rockets now. That is the most talented artist that I ever worked with. Music is so much like sports with "what ifs"
But as soon as that happened, he became an artist and continued to write how he wrote. Music from 36 Ounces though was very different than music after (was much more dboy heavy then...because he was writing that originally for other artists). Plies liked Biggie over Pac. He didn't like Pac actually. He hated when Timbaland compared them on MTV. He is a Nas fan. He likes Blues music over Rap, which also explains some of the country mannerisms in his music (Just The Tip was inspired from a Blues club show). He loved chicks and they loved him...which is why those chick records always hit. He was a prototype (in attitude) WR...flashy, pretty boy, talk a lot of sh*t, always got girls, tell you what they are going to do to you, etc...which explains his position lol oh and he is NOT a Canes fan (he generally like the Gators). So imagine all the sh*t I had to hear during those years. But he also isn't a hater, so he still show love to players from SWFL regardless.
. This was back when they actually enforced those “parental advisory” stickers so Unc was my only option. Good times.
