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Plies Welcomes Brother Ronell 'Big Gates' Levatte Home From Jail
'I thank everybody that continued to pray for my situation with my brother,' the rapper says.

Plies is breathing a little easier these days — his brother, Ronell "Big Gates" Levatte, has been released after three years in prison.

"I thank everybody that continued to support not only me, but my situation. I thank everybody that continued to pray for my situation with my brother," Plies said on Friday, the day after Big Gates' release. Gates began his sentence in 2006 for his involvement in a shooting at a club in Gainesville, Florida.

"I had an opportunity yesterday — April 9, a day I'll never forget — I had a chance to go down to Coleman correctional facility and see him walk out," Plies said. "That meant everything to me. I haven't had a chance to enjoy an Easter with him over the course of the last three years, man. I told him I was gonna take yesterday off — let's take time to smell the roses. But he came home straight in work mode. Thank God for the opportunity, man, and everybody who prayed for the situation around the country. It means everything to me. That was a part of my life I've been missing for a few years. That was his second time in prison I told him either one of us can go down this road. We don't do each other good for me to go to prison or him to go to prison. For me to see him come home was everything to me."

Plies has often talked about his brother — as well as others in the black community who have been incarcerated — in songs such as "100 Years," "Die Together" and "2nd Chance," off his current album, Da Realist.

"I think it's important," he said about addressing the prison system and its inequities. "[Me and my brother] talked a long time yesterday and, like I said, it's so many more people. He gave it to me in the simplest form possible. He said, 'Behind that wall, there's more people who are suffering, struggling, disappointed, sincerely hurting.' People will never understand it unless you are a part of that system. People tell you that some people deserve to be there. I can't never say they wrong. But I do know it's a lot of people in those situations. It's a lot of pain and struggle that they go through. My new vow that I made to myself is that regardless of my situation and my fame, [rapping about the penile system] that's something that's always gonna be a part of me and my responsibility to do everything I can to make sure that those people's voices behind those walls live on. I'll always be a representation of them."

Plies' next single, "Plenty Money," is due later this year, and he also plans to drop a new LP in August or September. The MC's reality show, "Goonette," is currently being shopped to various cable networks.

Source: MTV

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siddy1

pliies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Real K.I.N.G.

Plies that dude he held his brother down the hold time he was doing that bid... On the album side of things I think he chose all the wrong singles which is why he didn't make it to gold. Plenty Money should've been released a long time ago no need to release it now buzz for that track is gone.

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tookie1877

Dont really fucks with plies music too much but dudes consistency is off the wall
Gotta give em props for that and holdin his fam down
Good look on the info

Drewshady17

Its good for him that his bro is comin home but he is garbage on the mic and I heard he isn't even who he tries to be.Listen to how he raps then go watch a interview and see how he talks.He puts a fake image on to sell records dude is a clown.If his brother is comin home from prison he is the real goon and should be the one on the mic.

DAT BOI TREY

plies >>>>> officer ricky ja-rule rat joe and khaled

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T.K. aka Tha Kid Wonder

LOL what the fuck is it with you guys and wether or not rappers are or were really in the streets? What does it matter to you? Are you in the streets and if so why the fuck do you care about another person's grind? Plies is a entertainer just like all rappers. Plies went to college and graduated and that's good for him but he said it best in a interview. He said people try to make it seems as if it's bad because he went to college and as if everybody from the streets has to stay in the streets. That is pure ignorant. If you sell dope then hey sell dope that's fine. But there is nothing wrong with going to college and why any one would treat going to college as some sort of joke is rediculous. It's obvious he's well educated and he's making a shitload of money from his grinds. Is he a good rapper? Lol hell now but he's entertaining.

Also people go behind that police record shit as if it's the Bible. Alot of real street cats don't have records and when you are in the game nobody wants to get a record or go to jail but it seems as if they do they try to flip that image as if they are 10 times harder. The criminals that don't get locked up or broadcast what they do are the smart niggas. The ones that get locked up or broadcast they shit are the niggas that obviously wasn't doing shit correct or else they wouldn't have gotten caught. The same niggas that go to jail be the same niggas in the courtroom cryin like a bitch or in that interogation room droppin dimes to get a lesser sentence but then try to portray the role of gangsta as soon as they get out.

Precinct Phantom

I dont like Plies' music but he seems a gd dude, seems to try n help his fam wherever possible.

And i respect any1 who drops albums as frequently as Plies does, and he always manages 2 sell bucketloads of em, so yeah

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