Comments on: I Ain’t Hatin’: Rap artist Plies Establishes Scholarship

By: Mrs. Algernod Washington

Mrs. Algernod Washington — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:02:01 +0000

It ain’t nothing wrong with someone giving back to the community to ones who needed, there are plenty rappers who has made multi millions and want give shit, all they worried about is making more, and more money. They ain’t thinking about their fans, but Plies he’s on the money, thats my man and I Love Him.I have so much in common with him, I’m a smart hood type of REALIST girl – “im good”… Representing North Carolina *leelee*

By: plies first lady

plies first lady — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:49:18 +0000

first of all im plies first lady and i just had to tell him that i love him so much and been lovin him from the start ~plies first lady~

By: Pliessexy mama

Pliessexy mama — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:56:26 +0000

I Love plies to death. he is so sexy im in love with him

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:20:36 +0000

hey plies i m ur number 1 fan i have been luv n u since u first came out wit shawty

By: Treasure Dove

Treasure Dove — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:27:55 +0000

hey boo i am ur number 1 fan i love u so much that i will hurt someone if they try to talk to you i love you

By: kylenabrown

kylenabrown — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:43:42 +0000

waz up idk if you got my frist comment but hrers another am 16 i stay in tallahssee fl i go to godby high this is for my lil sister shes 14 and in the 8th grade her dad been in and out of prison for years ever since she was born and crrently just went back to prison i woul like for you to give her a shot she s smart very and has a lot to offer bascillay kids like us has just a couple options and am quite sure you know what they are i just want her to know there are other optiuons to make it out from where live and be more then proud to give back too i would love for you to help us well her please plus we love! and my mama is your number one fan trust me and shes a hard worken lady been an single mom all her life and made a dfference in my eyes it hasent always been easy for us i guess cause we get judge by the people from where we stay this will mean alot me please say yes thanks kylena

By: Tommy Dozier

Tommy Dozier — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:44:15 +0000

We fall for anything now-a-dayz! I guess $5,000 is all it takes to wash your hands off these days. Ole boy has inspired a nation of youth to carry themselves as Goons, but yet on the other hand, this tax write off PR is suppose to override his mainstream message. Maybe if he begins to deliver a positive, hopeful message in his music, it wouldn’t look as hypocritical. It’s almost like Martin Luther King delivering the I Have a Dream Speech and then grabbing one of the fire hoses and turning them on his people, along side the oppressors! Either you wanna lead the youth to College or Prison, we need to make up our minds!!

By: the uppity negro

the uppity negro — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:10:33 +0000

@socialite

Yeah, I saw it was late, lol. But, yeah, folks don’t know about it.

By: The Socialite

The Socialite — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:37:11 +0000

I just want to say congrats to Plies for making an effort towards change. Like you said, he is doing exactly what we ask rappers and other entertainers to do all of the time. The media should cover things like this all of the time, maybe it will encourage others to follow. Instead the media loves to focus on what people are not doing. We will never be able to change, as long as we continue to bring each other down. Say congrats sometimes! Thanks Uppity for talking about this, even if it is a week old! lol I bet people still didn’t know anything about it.

By: the uppity negro

the uppity negro — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:51:27 +0000

@talented tenth

I think our current state sucks–flat out. For the simple reason that its dumb!

That’s it…if there was some redeeming value behind it, take even a Jay-Z, then I would feel better just because there’s something intelligent about the lyrics. I’m sorry, Marco Polo is a hot mess. I’m more mad at Bow Wow because they went off on him on some MTV show because they said how is trying to get people to take him serious by doing some ringtone happy song with Soulja Bow.

I’m interested to read what John McWhorter got to say about this. His book “All About the Beat” is saying more or less hip hop is not the savior many of us were trying to make it out to be. At first I thought it had the potential, but um….then Soulja Boy came out and totally switched the game.

Honestly, the newer the rappers, the more I fault them because these are the ones who got sucked into the materalism that was purported by the old school rappers you mentioned. And then since this is good ol A-merry-ca, the distributors and advertisers didn’t do a damn thing to stop these rappers from RENTING all of this stuff to do they music videos. For older rappers like Common perhaps, the game kinda changed while they were still on it. These new kats, like Plies or Soulja Boy or that godforsaken Yung Berg, these people just got sucked into all this BS and I wish people would just wake up.