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Plastic Little
Plazdick Liddel, Plastik Lital, Crapstick Shittle, Plizzy, or quite plainly Plastic Little is a hip-hop group from Philadelphia that formed in the summer of 2001 right before the Bush Regime knocked down the Twin Towers and blamed it on Al Queda in order to severely restrict the civil liberties of US citizens and turn the Arab world up over on it head like a fucked up dreidel. Woah. This is just a bio right? So yeah, Plastic Little started out in the summer of 2001 as a duo of Kurt Hunte and Jayson Scott Musson doing shows to the critical acclaim of... well, of nobody. Musson and Hunte performed to bars and clubs filled with nobody except the bartender and the disgruntled doorguys.
"Kurt, my chocolate-faced friend, something isn't quite right… something is missing from this Plastic Little shit" said Musson, "I wonder what could it be?" Then like a strike of milky lightning, the solution quickly struck Musson, "Kurt, we need to put some motherfucking sugar in this Plastic Little coffee, dawg" "Whuh?" uttered a confused Kurt. "We need crackers in our band, nigga! Yelled Musson, "We need some proper white folks in Plastic Little! We're not going to make it anywhere in this rap game unless we can capture that white fan base, and we can't capture those white fans unless we give them something to identify with, and that means putting some white boys on this softball team!" Musson realised that rap music is really supported by kids in the suburbs, most of them being white, and a rap group with two black dudes isn't gonna cut it in the new millennium, it would be too obsolete. Look at 50Cent, the only reason he it big was because Eminem signed him, and white kids eat Eminem up like a junkie's veins spreads its leg for a needle. Upon this realization, emcee Jon Folmar and super producer Michael "SQUID" Stern entered the Plastic Little roster in like, uhm, like in late 2002. This roster of players in Plastic Little being the best and current line up.
With this line up Plastic Little has took the DIY aesthetic and pretty much bumrushed the music scenes along the east coast of the US. Due in dual parts to quality of the music Plastic Little makes coupled with a sense of humour in their music that has been lost in hip-hop in like forever, Plastic Little quickly surpassed many local Philly rap acts in notoriety because simply put, Plastic Little is some dope ass, funny ass shit. But it's not just the humour that sells Plastic Little, there is a biting critique of society at large and an acerbic wit and intelligence that comes with their brand of party music. It's like 3 parts Shake your Ass and 4 parts Fuck You. A good combo, right? So while it may be party, drugs, drinks and bitches and all around fun (remember fun?) within their music on one level, there is a larger stew brewing under the surface, or a greater picture just behind the curtain or whatever. Pick which ever metaphor you prefer, dawg.
Source: Coda
