"Da REAList" is the third full-length this Florida rapper has released since the summer of 2007, but like his fellow workaholic Lil Wayne (with whom he appeared on the hit remix of Shawty Lo's "Dey Know"), Plies thrives on haste. 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. And on "Want It, Need It," a fluffy J.R. Rotem-produced duet with Ashanti, he even cops to the desire most of his peers view as a sign of weakness.—Mikael Wood