Hip Hop icon, and creator of
the term “thug life,” Tupac Shakur, once confessed that although
occasionally sprinkling his rhymes with mentions of felonious activities,
he never actually had a record until he made a record.
So too appears to be the case
with the arguable Tupac of 2007/2008, Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic
Records recording artist, and promoter of his own criminal exploits,
Plies. 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.
The email printout of the documentation,
which appears at the end of this report, was obtained from the Florida
Department Of Law Enforcement (FDLE) by paying the $24 fee
and searching here [https://www2.fdle.state.fl.
criminal history database for Algernod Washington.
The FDLE’s
criminal record for Plies shows that the self-described “goon
affiliated, ex drug dealer” who’s “resume solid, street
cred bigger” has been arrested just twice within his home state
of Florida during his adult life, with both arrests taking place two
years ago.
The 32-year-old was arrested
for the first time at the age of 29 on April 12, 2006 for the misdemeanor
charge of resisting an officer without violence.
The latter of his two adult arrests came during a well-publicized shooting at a Gainesville,
Florida nightclub after a Plies
performance on July 2, 2006. According to reports, members of the rapper’s
entourage, including his older brother, Ronell
“Big Gates” Lavatte, pulled out guns and fired in the club after
Plies, who’s performance was running long, became angry when his microphone was cut off so that Lil Boosie
could begin to perform.
Plies’ career guide/older
brother, and another man, Troy Denard Carnegie, were both charged
with attempted murder, each accused of firing at least three rounds
in the club that night. According to reports, Big Gates
has only one more year to serve on his sentence for his involvement
in the shooting, but a Ronell Lavatte cannot be located in the
Florida Department Of Corrections offender search here [http://www.dc.state.fl.us/
search for Mr. Carnegie here [http://www.dc.state.fl.us/
be released from custody on June 20, 2010.
Unlike his brother and Mr.
Carnegie, Plies was charged with just a misdemeanor count
for possession of a concealed weapon after police found loaded firearms
in the vehicle he and his entourage were riding in. He posted a $50,000
bond shortly thereafter and was released. Plies
served no known jail time after later pleading no contest to the charge.
He has however subsequently
been sued by five Gainesville residents who claim they were the victims
of the shooting at the concert and are seeking $10 million in damages
[click to read]. Plies’
attorney has publicly stated in response to the lawsuit that if they’re
suing the rapper, they’re “suing the wrong person.”
HipHopDX’s
search of the FDLE’s database for Plies’
entire criminal history was pursued after learning that records existed
in another criminal database available to the public, that of Lee County,
Florida, home to Plies’ native Fort Myers, Florida, which showed
that the rapper had been cited for a handful of traffic offenses but
never had any criminal charges brought against him.
This record was obtained by
searching here [http://www.leeclerk.org/Crim_
run-ins with the Fort Myers Police Department during his adult
life appear to have been limited to five traffic stops (two in 1997,
one in 1999, and two in 2002) and citations for unknowingly not having
his driver’s license on him, having too dark of tint on his car windows,
and playing his car stereo too loud.
These traffic offenses are
not included in the FDLE’s report on all of Plies’
criminal history within the state of Florida because according to the
FDLE website no results are returned for “a misdemeanor other
than those required to be submitted to
FDLE under Florida Statutes.”
DX
also searched the public criminal records databases for Hillsborough
County here [http://www.hillsclerk.com/
known residence in Tampa, Florida), and Miami-Dade County here [http://www.miami-dadeclerk.
Slip-N-Slide Records) prior to confirming all of Plies’
criminal activities within the state of Florida via the FDLE’s
report. Both countywide searches yielded no records of criminal activity
for an Algernod Washington.
The Hillsborough County search revealed only a handful of civil filings
against Plies, including
for unpaid rent.
It should be noted however
that none of these county databases nor the FDLE’s report includes
any juvenile criminal record that might have existed for Plies
prior to his 18th birthday in 1994, or any federal criminal
charges that might have been levied against the rapper in the 14 years
since.
And, as is commonly understood,
the absence of an arrest record is never absolute proof of the complete
absence of one’s criminal activity.
However, it’s been documented
in previous articles on the “realest” street scribe in Hip Hop today
that Plies’ time was mostly consumed in the mid-to-late ’90’s
attending college at either Miami University
in Oxford, Ohio – where he reportedly played on the football team
– or the University of South Florida
in Tampa, or both schools (there are conflicting reports regarding his
collegiate career, and DX was unable to substantiate any as of
press time).
And while crime has clearly
hovered around the rapper’s day-to-day life in recent years, impacting
him indirectly via the aforementioned incarceration of his older brother
and the recent arrest of his manager [click to read], first person accounts of criminal
activities on Plies’ part are conspicuously scarce in his raw
rhymes. Instead, sympathetic laments on the cruelties experienced by
family members and friends at the hands of an oftentimes merciless justice
system, and not his own personal experiences, can be found in most of
his material.
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.
In addition to fallacious statements
in song, Plies has also produced a contemptuous image for himself
on the screen, including his portrayal as a high rollin’ drug dealer
in the video clip for “Worth Goin Fed Fo” [click to watch ].
Recent “outings” of fellow
Floridian, and Slip-N-Slide
labelmate, Rick Ross [click to read
Akon [click to read ] have shone a new light on the exaggerated,
and in some instances completely fabricated, biographies crafted by
too many of today’s Hip Hop artists.
These personal “stories”
highlight phantom criminal backgrounds in an attempt to boost so-called
“street cred” with fans who often are not living such lives and
are therefore attracted to these tall tales of Tony Montana-esque
(or in Plies’ case, O-Dog-style) criminal prowess and/or
success. These fake personas proving to be alarmingly irresponsible
when absorbed by the equally impressionable, but oftentimes far more
impoverished, segment of the Hip Hop audience who believe with a dangerous
literalism that they too can lead lives of crime ala fictional movie
criminals or equally fictional rap criminals and yet in still eventually
become an unimprisoned Hip Hop celebrity.
And while fabricated bios are
nothing new to Hip Hop, even claiming the careers of some artists (see
Vanilla Ice), unlike most emcees of yesteryear like the aforementioned
Tupac, who balanced his occasionally outlandish claims of dope dealing
and gang banging with cautionary tales of the pitfalls involved in a
life of crime (see “Shorty Wanna Be A Thug,” “Young Niggaz,”
etc), Plies seems more oblivious to maintaining any artistic
responsibility, instead recklessly crafting a seemingly strategic image
and seeking to capitalize on fraudulent claims of criminal activity
all the while declaring to be Hip Hop’s undiluted truth teller, personifying
all that is “real.”
It’s now abundantly apparent
that Plies has forsaken being fully forthright with his fans,
failing to make the crucial distinction that those around him, and not
he, are the real victims of our nation’s often flawed justice system,
and that he is merely observing and reporting their experiences within
a life of crime and not his own.
Representatives for Plies
could not be reached for comment on this report as of press time.
FDLE record for Plies is below (each charge and date of the two offenses have been highlighted)
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I really don’t care for plies but I will say this. Must rappers exagerate on the songs. Come on let’s be real. You cant go around shooting guns, selling drugs, killing people, etc as much as they say and not have any major charges. Whats fuck up is people listen and buy his shit. So nobody is to blame but the people who bought his shit. The rap game is kinda like wrestling…some of the wrestlers actually wrestled in school…and most are just big muscular actors. But hey as long as his music is enjoyable it shouldn’t matter right? I mean Denzel isn’t a grimmy cop like in Training Day but most people loved him for that role. Entertainment is all it is.
FUCK… LISTEN TO THE MUSIC….. Plies himself says in Plenty Money (@1:25) “if I ever go to prison, Imma have plenty stories, sleep real good, got no worries”…. dont sound like he is claiming he went to prison to me…. so in my mind, maybe he does REAL shit and doesnt get caught…. ever heard of the saying……. REAL CRIMINALS DONT GET CAUGHT. also listen to Heard Of Me (@1:45) “to be the best rapper you gotta tell lies” I mean honestly do we really think rappers do everything they say? if they did they’d be basically snitching on themselves. i’m not here defending Plies but I mean the only thing i really give a fuck about when i listen to an artist is…. does he make good music? and yeah, plies i think makes pretty decent music…. i mean we could publish a report like this for a grip of rappers and we would find they were exaggerating…. THATS WHAT RAP IS.
If you’re searching and paying for someones police record just to discredit them you haaaaave waaaaaay too much time on your hands. Get a life.
Are you familiar with the term “journalist”?
he gay and soft tell him to stop running from real niggas and keep makeing some dumb songs
It’s funny reading the comments about this article. Some people wanna bash this website for speaking the truth. Others want to clown on Plies for fabricating his past. Alot of people say he just never got caught. Being from FL and in the music game, I’m gonna school y’all. Plies is not a goon, not saying that in a bad way, but as a fact. His brother was the one who more in the streets then him. Most rappers aren’t what their stage persona makes them out to be. They are reports, telling whats going on in the neighborhoods. The problem is when you go and talk about stuff you did in order to sell records. If aliens attacked today, I’m not looking for Tom Cruise, Will Smith, or Gov. Arnold to save the day. Just because they did it in a movie I don’t expect it in real life. However, in the hip-hop world, we expect rappers to be the epitome of what they rap. If they were, they would be locked up, not out rapping. They talk about weight and murder like its nothing. Please think about it, what goon do you know that tells you he is a goon. The goon is the one the dope boy calls to solve problems. Bad boys move in silence. But this is the enviroment we have created. Where talent is not enough to suffice, you have to have street cred. When I rapped I talked about things I saw, did, & heard about. My goal was to make music that people related to and could identify with. I’ve never sold more than weed, so I never talked about the price of a key or nothing. I been in the room when crack was cooked, on the corner when it was sold. I’ve been shot at and returned fire. Been arrested but never spent more than a night in jail. But should I do an Akon and say I was a “notorious” kingpin. That wasn’t my style, but talk of that lifestyle was in my music. We gotta wake up and realize that these are entertainers. The rap world is like wrestling, don’t look behind the scenes if you want to believe what you see. I don’t fault hiphopdx for exposing the truth. Young people need to know that you don’t have do this stuff to be real. Rappers need to realize that people want the truth when you sit for an interview, not made up stories, because someone will fact check you. I’m glad Rick Ross was a CO, he did what a REAL MAN does to provide for his fam. Same with Plies and Akon or whoever else worked hard to make a living before making it big. Grow up all y’all. And thats the definition of real!
You are absloutely correct!!
I use to find myself getting mad about the fact that they are fake but I had to remind myself that this is strictly entertainment and they have a right to say whatever they want, TRUE OR NOT.
If R Ross was a CO (He was) then OK
but haters are the ones who are so concerned about everyones business.
I Like Plies music and Rick Ross but keep in mind they are not stupid because they are fully aware that in order to receive a Federal Indictment they do not need much evidence(LOOK AT BMF…NO DRUGS seized and they dont get out of the fed joint until 2032 or something like that)
Believe me I did 4 yrs in Ohio (yea whatevr look it up A549732 State vs Morton) and it was not fun at all…
The homosexual activity is far worse than you know..trust me, a lot of niggas didnt like me because I was so outspoken against it. If they are fake then get made at WWE wrestlers, get mad at actors,
get mad at Arnold Swartzneggar , thats a lot of hatin, but let it be because its entertainment and nothin else.
Enjoy the music and get off their dick.
They dont have to answer to you, me or anyone else for that matter.
PS as for the smart crimminals don’t get caught talk, that’s BS! If you work your way up from runner to kingpin, you gonna have some history. Whether you get a humble or popped for some weight. Most people o in the game won’t trust you unless you did some time. But people who say that are from the suburbs and all they know about the hood is from rap music.
plies your a bitch. how da fuk u have 40 glocc punk yo bitch asz. yo faggot asz put yo chain up. wut a BITCH! a nigga dat rap about it but aint about it. Its meezy bitch.
Niggas talk hard on a computer. Guarantee u if a couple of niggas run up on you, you aint gone sit there and take a ass whipn to prove u hard. Any real hood nigga know it’s time to get the hell on.. Plain and Simple.. Now if it’s one nigga and u run, then I can see calln a nigga out for running.
half u pussy niggas on here dont even no what real is,yall got the wrong conception….. jail,prisons,guns and flippin bricks dont make ya real home boy,bein real all begins wit ya self..how da fuck can u keep it G” wit me if u cant keep it G”wit ya self..fuck you hoe ass niggas,my nigga plies represented and spoke up 4 every street nigga breathing fuck nigga,fuck what my nigga aint been through and what my nigga did go through..in a sence dum ass nigga he been through just as much cuz he lost someone he loved to them prison gates,like some one lost most of us while we was in da GAME HEAD FIRST..I BEEN TO PRISON 3 TIMES MY NIGGA,IM JUST WORKIN ON MY MUSIC AND TRYIN 2 STAY FREE,AINT SHIT REAL IN THERE..HALF U NIGGAS ON HERE AINT GOT 2 QUATERS 2 RUB 2 GETHER BUT YET U ON HERE TALKIN BOUT A NIGGA WHO MAKIN ENDS MEET,GET YA BREAD UP FUCK NIGGA AND POP A PILL WHILE RIDIN 5 IN DA MORNING AND LISTEN 2 PLIES FIRE UP A BLUNT AND RELAX WHILE MY DAWG SPIT DA TRUTH..MY NIGGA WHEN I MAKE IT I PRAY U FUCK NIGGAZ DONT BE TRYIN 2 DIRTY UP A NIGGA NAME EVEN THOUGH I NO ITS COMING AND IM READY PUSSY NIGGA….PLIES FUCK WIT DA LAST OF DA DYIN BREED MY NIGGA…..
this couldnt be said better, thats real
Yeah real criminals dont get caught but they also dont run when some dudes step on the block, Tupac said it best “I’d rather die like a man than live like a coward”. Im more than sure that the fact that these rappers put on a tough guy facade really eats away at them behind closed doors. At the end of the day if you cant be true to yourself then who are you?!!!
People deserve very good life and home loans or collateral loan can make it much better. Because people’s freedom depends on money.
Different people in every country receive the credit loans from various banks, because that is simple and comfortable.
I live in Gainesville and remember this happening. The charges were dropped but is anyone surprised? Obviously stars dont stay in trouble for very long. Next please.
All I have to say is I live in Gainesville and remember this happening. The charges were dropped but is anyone surprised? Obviously stars dont stay in trouble for very long. Next please?
why did u lie about your criminal past
wat da fuck plies u a good rapper and all but u stupid man get yo fuckin life together nigga
wow…
yall niggas need 2 get a life leaving comments on da computer
plies that nigga music go hard fuck dem haters shit he proably dont give a fuck wat yall gotta say anyway cause he got da money
Top 5 Reasons To Be Jealous of Plies
http://eddymo.blogspot.com/2012/07/top-5-reasons-to-be-jealous-of-plies.html
lmao this website on his dick to spend money and investigate on somethin that isnt needed bu just to be nosey.
plies still real and thats obvious if you heard him say that he raps about what he seen and what others been thru and everything like that. so how he fake when he didnt sugarcoat ? fools
Word to that. Even if he ain’t been through everything he rapped about, other people who have can relate to that and hence enjoy his music.
and the birth date is wrong so the file is fake or made up or somethin else obviously
Yall r fools n should b sued for posting wrong information. like trick said his birthdate is wrong he was born 7/1/1876. N also have you ever heard of getting something expunged?? He could of been arrested for a felony or whatever and then did his probation and got it taken off his record!!! This is the most ridiculous article ive ever seen, yall obviously dont know shit about the court system
its a buisness, if he lived that life he would be dead or in prison, instead he making millions of dollars entertaining you dumb asses who thuggin for real… its about the money.. how many “real” niggas in prison while another nigga raising they kids..let me guess being real to the streets( a bunch of mf’s that dont give a fxxk bout you) is more important than taking care of your family. make money. again make money that wont cost you your freedom or your life….. being a thug will get you killed or a life sentence.. rapping about it will get you rich
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