‘I just opened up my whole life,’ rapper says of songs on Da Realist.”Everybody is calling it a #1 record,” Plies said recently on the Atlanta set of the video for his song “Want It, Need It.” The clip, which features Ashanti, reworks the 1987 R&B classic “Two Occasions.”
“It’s a hell of a record — an old Babyface sample. … Actually, it was the Deel that first used it; Babyface used it after that. It’s one of those records that people in the radio world considered a ‘first-listen record.’ It’s me being me. It’s a female-driven record to a certain extent, but it’s me speaking to the goons as usual. I think that chemistry is something that always works for me. A lot of stations already jumped out and are banging the record.”
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