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Prior to becoming a rapper, Washington had a fair amount of success playing football at Miami University from 1995 to 1997. He played wide receiver for the team before transferring to the University of Central Florida, eventually dropping out to focus on his music.
Washington’s stepbrother Ronnell Lawrence Lavatte, also known as Big Gates, established the independent record label Big Gates Records at the tail end of the 1990s. Initially reluctant to rap, Washington lay down a verse on the track “Tell Dem Krackers Dat” and the two traveled to Miami to promote the single, which led to Plies signing with Slip-n-Slide Records in 2004.
In 2007 came the rapper’s debut album “The Real Testament” which was led by the debut single “Shawty” featuring T-Pain and peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album later spawned the Akon featured single “Hypnotized” and was certified Gold selling over 500,000 copies. Due to the album's success Washington secured guest slots on singles and albums by artists including DJ Khaled and Fat Joe.
A year later in 2008 Washington released his second offering “Definition of Real” led by the single “Bust It Baby Pt. 2” featuring Ne-Yo and “Please Excuse My Hands” featuring Jamie Foxx and The-Dream. The same year brought his third album “Da REAList” and guest spots on Ludacris’s single “Nasty Girl” and Khaled’s “Out Here Grindin’”.
Washington has subsequently release the albums “Goon Affiliated” in 2010 and “Purple Heart” in 2014, as well as the 2014 mixtape “Da Last Real Nigga Left”.
Born Torrence Hatch to a single mother in one of Louisiana’s more dangerous neighbourhoods, Lil’ Boosie has had an upbringing that nearly reads like a list of most likely prospects for a young African-American man in today’s society. The crucial one that’s missing is becoming a gangster. While Boosie grew up around that kind of activity, he tried as hard as he could to steer clear of it, instead immersing himself into the world of basketball playing. While it looked as if his skill at the sport would lead to a college scholarship, he couldn’t escape the bad influences around him and a drugs charge lead him to be expelled from High School.
Not to be deterred, he instead poured his indomitable spirit into rapping. Soon after that he’d become involved with a local rapper turned label owner C-Loc, who was so impressed with Boosie’s work that he immediately got the young rapper recording them in his studio. A self-released debut album came next, entitled “Youngest Of The Camp”, and everything seemed to be going his way, until C-Loc was sentenced to four years in prison. Rudderless without his mentor, Boosie got sent down as well for driving a stolen car.
It could have utterly derailed his incredibly promising career there and then, and it probably would have if it wasn’t for Pimp C’s Trill Entertainment label. They signed him, got him out of jail, and after that he really started coming into his own, with his first album released on the label “For My Thugz” selling 30’000 copies completely independently. Ever since then, Boosie has been one of Hip-Hop’s true nearly men, never quite stepping out of trouble’s shadow but always justifying it with great music that, since 2005, has been being released by Asylum, a label supported by Warner Brothers Records.
Clearly, if you can work with everyone from Three 6 Mafia and T.I, to Young Jeezy and 2 Chains while still getting in trouble with the law you’re a talent to be reckoned with, and Boosie is still very much in his prime. Highly recommended.
Aggression, lust, retrospection... just a few words that can briefly outline what to expect from the live music of Florida-born rapper Plies. With a set list combining smooth, R&B style songs featuring vocals from singer/producer Rico Love with hard-hitting, boundary free tunes such as 'People Dem' and 'Big Thangs', Algernod Washington appeals directly to fans of real rap and performs his songs with the belligerence to reflect his often controversial material.
Performing in venues with a relatively small capacity compared to most mainstream American rappers, there is an overwhelming sense of energy when Plies is on stage as almost every fan in the room shouts out lyrics without the instrumental needed. The words to such tunes as 'F**king or What', 'Me And My Goons' among others echo round the room as the audience connects effortlessly with the man on stage. Throughout the show, Plies involves a lot of audience participation to keep the room buzzing as arms wave up and down in time with the rhythm and hardcore fans dance the whole way through the set.
With Plies being only a few centimetres away from the audience in such close proximity, there is always a good atmosphere at concerts. Just make sure that you have 'Plenty Money' if you want to buy a ticket.
I was very disappointed with this concert. Tickets stated that the concert starts at 8:00 pm, and YFN did not even show up until 11:00pm. Standing in The National from 7:30 to 11:00 listening to dozens of amateur rappers that weren't even that good. Also a fight broke out in the crowd later in the night which was absurd. When YFN finally came out on stage he blew through a few of his most popular songs, then left. He was on stage for 10 minutes, if that. He didn't even rap one entire song, just rapped in between when they would pause the track. I was really excited to see him, but the whole thing was very unprofessional. If I had known he was only going to rap a few choruses from his songs and leave, then I wouldn't have come. I don't know why he even bothered coming to Richmond if he wasn't going to put on a real show. Young Fly Nigga? More like Young Fly Nothing.
I would say that Lil Boosie is known as Torrence Hatch when he’s at home, but in fact, he’s probably been officially known by an identification number for the past few years; you won’t have seen him on stage since before 2009, since he’s been serving a prison sentence since for a variety of drug charges. He was released in March of this year, though, and now he needs to make up for lost time - it wasn’t just his impressive five records to date that carved out his reputation as one of the most promising prospects in hip hop prior to his incarceration, it was also his genuinely wild live shows. Boosie comes over like southern hip hop’s very own cross between, say, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Lil Wayne; there’s youthful exuberance in his unpredictable stage presence, sure, but a hint of the unhinged as well. With his comeback album Touchdown 2 Cause Hell released the same day I type this, his return to the road - a welcome one - is surely only around the corner.
Hi my name is Tausha McNeil I am from North myrtle beach South Carolina 39 I am a ♌️ I am Also a dialysis patient due to heart failure and kidney failure I have two children I love myself some big boogie I’m a big fan i love his music I play it a lot he puts me in a good vibe make me start dancing I will love to meet him one day go to a show one day and take a picture with him so if that could happen it would really make me happy and put a smile on my face ❤️