Plies - Shawty (Appreciation Thread)

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I can't fukking believe this.... but I just heard this song for the first time. You're welcome to clown SirBiatch for this* (make it good :salute:).

I have no fukking idea how I never heard this. I heard other Plies songs around his time but I hated them. Apparently this was big on Billboard in 2007, which got me thinking: "where the fukk was I in 2007?" I moved to Toronto in early 2007. I don't remember anyone playing this song ever. I'm tempted to say that no one in Toronto was playing this. I would've heard it at the club or somewhere.

Most of what I remember about 2007 musically is "Graduation", the Kanye/50 feud, Soulja Boy (they played that bullshyt at my company's Christmas party) and the failed real hip hop resurrection.

Anyway, this beat is FLAMES. This is why you gotta sample :mjcry:

Now it makes sense that people still give a fukk about Plies on instagram or wherever the fukk he posts. I remember a couple chicks rambling about Plies back in the mid/late 2000s but I never understood it.



Ah well. That's the thing with SirBiatch. He's in tune 99% of the time but sometimes things fall through the crack. And if it's timeless, he'll find it eventually. Even if it's 10 years later.

For those that heard this song back then, any interesting memories or ducktales you have?

*Offer doesn't apply to SirBiatch stalkers. Y'all stuck in Ignore Hell :mjlol:
 
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Nothing better than sampled Trap beats:blessed:



Totally, breh. That's actually how I found it. I was looking at Earth, Wind and Fire samples and I'm like: "hmm... never heard this Plies song. lemme check it out."

10 Hip-Hop Songs Sampling Earth Wind & Fire - XXL

Sampled trap beats are a frontier rarely explored. It's partly why I've said Brand New Guy is one of the greatest trap beats I've ever heard. I wonder if Metro Boomin samples. he seems like he does or at least has a sampler's mentality. And that's probably why he's winning.
 

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I actually thought it was a T Pain track, he was annilating everything back then. Definitely worth some appreciation, along with any peak T Pain (except Low). Funny I hated Plies back then, but somehow he resurrected his career despite his music being even worse and diabolical clowning :yeshrug:.

Hip hop y'all.
 

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This was a good radio single....T Pain had a serious run

And yeah i get why trap producer dont sample(royalties) but it really sound so much better when theres a sample in tha mix
 
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