YOUNG PLUKY AKA ANTWON WRIGHT WAS BORN IN TOLEDO OHIO. AS A YOUNGSTER HE MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY TO MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. A DRUG ADDICTED MOTHER AND AN ABSENTEE FATHER BECAME THE CATALYST THAT PROPELLED ANTWON TO TURN TO THE STREETS, IN PURSUIT OF LOVE TO SOOTHE THE PAIN OF HIS LOST CHILDHOOD. INSTEAD OF LOVE ALL HE FOUND IN THE DRUGFESTED STREETS OF NORTH MINNEAPOLIS WERE POVERTY STRICKEN NIGHTMARES. WITHOUT ANYONE TO GUIDE HIM OR DIRECT HIM. DRUG DEALERS BECAME ROLE MODELS. ONE OF THESE ROLE MODELS WAS A MID 80’s DRUG KING PIN NAMED RALPH PLUKIE DUKE. LIKE HIS NAME SAKE YOUNG PLUKY SPENT A DECADE OF HIS LIFE BEHIND BARS. WHILE BEHIND BARS HE FOUND THE STRENGTH TO OVER COME HIS CHILDHOOD. UPON RELEASE HE HAD TO FIND AN OTHER OUTLET TO REPLACE THE NIGHTMARES OF HIS FORMER LIFE. HIP HOP BECAME HIS OUTLET. NOW HIS ROLE MODELS ARE JAY-Z , CASH MONEY MILLIONAIRES, NAS, WU TANG JUST TO NAME A FEW. SINCE HE LIVED THE STREET LIFE, HE HAS CAPTURED THE ESSENCE OF THAT LIFE IN HIS MUSIC WITH HIS 17 SONG CD DOGDING THE RICO. WITH THE HELP OF FELLOW MPLS. ARTIST AND PRODUCERS, YOUNG PLUKY HAS COME UP WITH 2 OF THE MOST POWERFUL CD’S “HENNEPIN DIVISION” A MIXTAPE , AND “DODGEN THE RICO” HIS SOLO ALBUM THE BEST ALBUM TO HIT THE CITY SINCE PRINCE’S PURPLE RAIN.
