A 2008 civil lawsuit filed against Florida rapper, Plies, is gaining some national attention as the plaintiffs made a move to include the rapper’s brother and his label, Big Gates Records in the suit. The lawsuit stems from a 2006 dispute in a Gainesville, Florida nightclub which erupted into gunfire leaving five clubgoers with gunshots wounds. The defendants claim that the shooting came from Plies and his entourage as they were warring with another rapper in the nightclub. Plies originally pleased no contest to illegal possession of a concealed weapon, and walked away free while his brother Ronell Levatte served three years in prison on the same charge. But the plaintiffs made the recent decision to amend the lawsuit based on claims that Plies has made references to the shooting in his lyrics to promote his image as gangsta rapper.

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