Plots is like the renaissance man of many different genres of underground music. He's from Philadelphia but went to college in Pittsburgh and within the few short years he's kicked up a serious buzz in the local "scene" as well as places a little more distant, like Italy when working with producer Jammineye. Check it out as I ask him a bunch of annoying questions.
Plots) People are definitely more surprised to hear that I rap, or at least when I first started taking it seriously. I'm not sure if surprised is the right word, though. People are usually just like "oh, I didn't know you did that. Cool."
T-TAD) I dare you to list every band/rap group you've been in and what you've done in it.
Plots)That is an impossible task. Seriously, there's over 50. Right now I'm playing guitar in Latecomer, and we have a record (fucking finally) coming out this spring. Off the top of my head, some of the Pittsburgh bands I've been in are Leaps & Bounds, Unit 731, MTG, Terminate and Jarvis.
T-TAD) Did being in a rap group with a lot of hype like The 1's and 2's get you a lot of chickies in college? If so you ever think about going back and 'Billy Madison-ing' that shit?
Plots) Well, it's important to note that I'm actually still in college. If all goes according to plan I'll be be graduating in August with like 5 pieces of paper saying I can write, play/read music and talk politics with you. That wasn't your question though, so I'll play ball...the answer is no, the 1s and 2s never really got me any extra female attention, and if it did I'm obviously too dense to have noticed. Rap, in general, has done more harm than good to my love life.
T-TAD) What did you go to college for?
Plots) I'm a non-fiction writing, political science, and music major. I have no idea how it happened and I'm counting the seconds until I can be done with it and start selling my body to pay off the debt I'm destined to drown in.
T-TAD) Where are each of the members of The 1's and 2's now?
Plots) Right this second? Dave is more than likely at Tree Lady Studios working on some kind of project, because he is an absolute workaholic and it's 2:30 on a Thursday. Joe is probably somewhere in Friendship or Bloomfield closely guarding the small collection of fitted hats and tshirts I've left at his house.
T-TAD) How did you meet Doomshark and how is he the laziest producer on earth?
Plots) I met Doomshark through a mutual friend a few years ago and moved in with him 3 weeks later. I suspect his laziness has something to do with being exhausted from living with the weight of being a shark of doom. Side note: he raps now, and his shit is dope. He's highjacking at least part of my set on the 13th.
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T-TAD) I heard after your show February 13th you may never play a live rap show again, how come?Plots) As much as I love doing shows, it's just time to fade into the background for awhile. I never meant to imply that I'd never play a rap show again, I just don't see it happening for a long time, and by then I'll probably be living elsewhere.
T-TAD) When you put out 'The Struggle vol. 1' did you have any "goals" with rapping? If so what were they and how did you get from recording demos on a Mac to doing cds with Jammineye
Plots)When I put out The Struggle Vol. 1 I was fucking around with Garageband because my friends gassed me up enough to think I might be able to make something that wasn't total garbage. They were wrong, because those first few "mixtapes" were absolute trash, haha, and I hope they never turn up on the internet someday when I'm 30 or have kids. That shit was vulgar. So Social was the first record I sank real time and feeling into, and I think it shows. I have Preston Rahbari to thank for that. I went from making records with him to the Jammineye material, he got a job making real records and apparently is helping out with the Roots latest. Yeah, those Roots.
Jammineye, for the record, is a fucking genius. I'm doing him a favor by hanging it up. If I can help him "get put on" from the records we made together, then it was all a success.
T-TAD) Are you ever going to put out a physical copy of anything?
Plots)I'm going to burn my entire "discography" onto blank CDs, play them on my old Walkman on full volume, and record that with that little tape recorder thing from Home Alone 2. Then I'll give you that tape recorder, because you can't take the tapes out. You gotta give it back, though. I love that thing.
T-TAD) What projects are you working on in the near future?
Plots) Latecomer's record should be coming out by the end of March. I'm quite excited for it. I just tell people we're Tony Hawk Pro Skater-core. If you like punk rock, you'll dig it. It's pretty eclectic.
I'm also hesitant to say this, because there's a good chance it might take me a lot longer to put together, but I'm almost done writing a third Jammineye record. Dave and I might get really drunk and track it in one night, like we did the first one.
Thanks for the luv, Pittsburgh. Let's go Flyers.
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