Two days ago, the Plezi Rap States guys dropped their first “Plezi Rap States Cypher”. The cypher featured some notable names in the Haitian Hip-hop movement in South Florida. Plezi Rap States is a movement started by Biggystal, Young Rich, and PJ Da Boss in Fort Lauderdale Florida. The mission is to promote Haitian Hip-hop in the United States. They’re aiming to get notoriety and represent a force in Haitian Hip-hop. They also want erase the myth that only Haiti has good Kreyòl MCs.
This is not the first time guys trying to start a movement as such in South Florida. The paramount challenges are still there. There’s never enough support. Guys would get excited for a few months, but quit when they face critical challenges to get to the music to the people. In the Haitian Diaspora, guys don’t have the luxury to focus 100% on Haitian Hip-hop like the guys in Haiti. The pressure of keeping a 9 to 5 is usually make it difficult for Haitian rappers in the Diaspora to keep up. After all, they have bills to pay. Furthermore, not too many are willing to make the necessary sacrifices it requires to promote their music.
From what we have seen, there’s not enough fans to support the movement in the Diaspora. As a result, Haitian Hip-hop shows can’t pull a significant crowd. Even the biggest names in the game can’t pull a decent crowd without adding a Compas act to the lineup. Guys have been trying to put up shows in the United States for years, to find out only the artists performing show up. Imagine a flyer with 10 artists on it can’t even bring out 100 people.
Plezi Rap Tuesdays — a Haitian Hip-hop club on Tuesday nights in Fort Lauderdale, has had its share of these challenges mentioned here. However, the guys show the willingness to continue to push the movement. They have realized they have to promote the music first before they can start putting up shows. Hence, they have decided to work on a mixtape — Plezi Rap State mixtape. The mixtape will be released on August 7th. In the meantime, they have offered this cypher – Plezi Rap State Cypher featuring PJ Da Boss, Bigfa, King Tig, Punchline Diesel, Kowkow, Young Rich, Biggystal, Young Black, and Maxflo.
Like with every Cypher, people will debate who has the hardest verse. Overall, the Cypher is solid, but Maxflo has the strongest verse, followed by PJ Da Boss’, according to Mr Prodg, the founder of RKM. Puchline has some dope punch lines – “plezi rap, crazy rap/ sa kap gade’n ak yon je, tankou Fetty Wapp”/ mizik la bon fe’l pase/ lajan pa pil, pa kite’l fe’w mache … game nan vin yon bel bouzen, men’l paka madanm”.
Part of PJ Da Boss verse:
M’soti n’on project kote sak nan vant lan mm son brigan tou
Son dal timoun men anndan chòt but fok ou pridan tou
Sou mal antrew fasonw mache ka fè yo friz ou tou
Yo pa monte chwal ak tchitchi sim byen kwè ke’w se youn tou
Education yo se sel roch, boutey kouto ak fo pwen
Sou mal antre la pou pa viktim sou ou fow tagen gro pwen
Chak grenn pou kol son vrè pyon menm sil ta ak 2 men
Tutiquemen lè vwam plonb’on beat pal kwè w k soutni’l ak 2men
