“1 Day” is a eulogy to a dead homie, with lines like “Wish I could bring my nigga back for 1 day/ take him by the day care to see his son play.” He strikes a similar chord on “Somebody (Loves You),” which features a sample from a Patti LaBelle song, and on “Worth Goin Fed Fo,” he questions whether the spoils of his lifestyle are worth a 25-year prison bid. He’s more successful when he allows himself to get introspective. These slow jams drag the album down, and clash with Plies’ raunchy, goon persona. Besides “Bust It Baby,” there is “Please Excuse My Hands” featuring Jamie Foxx and The Dream, and “#1 Fan” featuring Keyshia Cole and J. That last track points to the biggest flaw on “Definition of Real”: based on the success of “My Shawty,” Plies makes three more stabs at an R&B crossover hit. He also has his share of club bangers, like “Watch Dis,” “Who Hotter Than Me,” and “Bust It Baby Part 2” featuring Ne-Yo.
That is, if you can consider lines like “The best pussy you can get is when you gotta sneak/I call my lil’ baby a shooter when she nut, she skeet” romantic. “Dat Bitch,” “Feel Like Fuckin'” and “Please Excuse My Hands” also offer up Plies’ explicit take on romancing the ladies. His realness asserted, Plies takes on your girlfriend on “Ol’ Lady,” adding yet another pussyhound track to his already sizeable pussyhound discography. He also gets thuggish/goonish on “Bushes” (as in, “Bitch you gettin to yo house, I be right in yo bushes/Jump out with that choppa, actin real foolish/keep bullshittin nigga I’ma be right in yo bushes”), and “Shit Bag,” in which he threatens to beat an opponent so bad he has to use a colostomy bag. It may not be Jay Hova, but it gets the point across. If I don’t know ya homie hands on pistols” Never seen one I’m what they call a real nigga The photo and the album title both reinforce the point that Plies is trying to make: he may have went gold off of the strength of the baby-making jam “My Shawty,” but he is still the realist rapper alive.Įxhibit A: “I’m Da Man,” featuring a Drumma Boy beat and a Trey Songz hook, with Plies declaring his realness in his syrupy drawl: On the cover of his sophomore album, Plies is squatting down, drawers showing, wearing a ski mask and a medallion of himself wearing a ski mask bearing the legend “Goon.” It’s a bizarre photo, equal parts menacing and ridiculous.
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