If you lived in Florida, home-state to rapper Plies, you no doubt heard the Plies and Akon smash hit “I Wanna Love You”…but ,much to the confusion of Plies and his Florida fans, the song was re-done and preformed by Akon and Snoop on national airwaves, creating a fervor of rumors that the two artists now have beef over the “stolen” song…but that simply is not true according to Plies.
Akon explained in interviews that there was some miscommunication between him and Plies in regards to who held the rights to the track that Akon produced and was featured on.
Luckily, Plies was able to rebound with T-Pain for the breakout hit “Shawty” from his debut, The Real Testament, which drops today (August 7) on Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic Records.
“I think a lot of times when good things happen in your life,”Plies told MTV News recently, “that’s the only thing that people like to acknowledge. … And I beg to differ. I think a lot of times some of the bad things that happen in your life are hidden blessings as well. For that particular situation with Akon, out of respect to the situation, I never try to talk about issues that all parties aren’t currently here to talk about with me. … In no way is there a problem amongst me and another party. [Akon and I] had the luxury of collaborating on my album. It’s a real, real big record [called ‘Hypnotized’]. That ‘I Wanna Love You’ record was a big record for him, and I take my hat off to him and Snoop and congratulate them.”
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” ‘Hypnotized,’ “Plies added, “[is a] guaranteed monster. I feel really good about it.”
According to Plies, the new Akon collabo is set to be his next single, which they’re scheduled to shoot a video for shortly. “We chopping it up right now,” he said.
