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Da Realist Image
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63

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews What's this?

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6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: The third album for the Florida rapper is his second release in 2008 (sophomore album, "Definition Of Real" was released in June).

Top Track

Put It On Ya
Shorty I wanna know if you come over If you don't mind girl put your legs up on my shoulders Don't lie, I can see it in your eyes You want for you... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. His reports here from the streets ('Me and My Goons'), the boudoir ('Spend the Night') and the hospital room ('Family Straight') sizzle with a stripped-down immediacy that makes good on the album's title; few MCs seem as committed to a warts-and-all presentation as Plies.
  2. On his third and finest CD in 16 short months, the Florida-based MC has emerged as one of hip-hop's best by dropping unvarnished, aggressive songs with unsparing detail.
  3. Despite the prolific amount of material having the possibility of thinning out the quality of his beats and rhymes, Plies just keeps getting better with every CD.
  4. With some minor problems, some minor advancement, and some major moments, Da Realist is an overall winner from a rapper who keeps beating the odds.
  5. Da Realist is catchy and seductive in small doses, and Plies' no-frills chest-thumping has a certain logic to it. But when he says, "You ain't got enough guns, you gonna need some help," he could be talking about himself.
  6. Without a distinguishing voice or idea, Realist feels like the mold from which better rap albums are made, a blank form woefully void of substance or flavor.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. arnethaj.
    Jan 11, 2009
    10
    One of the best cds out in 08.