On “I Want (Money) Remix,” Plato III joins rappers McKinley Dixon & Kyle Bethel, trading bars on the Grown track that contemplates the need for cash while dipping into boogie & funk. The remix highlights Dixon and Bethel’s unique rapping styles + features lines from Bethel’s viral track “City of Demons.” 

"I'm a decent man from the city of demons" was the meme of the year, at least in my circles,” says Plato III’s Ryan Silva. “Beyond the meme, Kyle was spitting: ‘Senseless violence. Really so many reasons... financial reasons…’ It reminded me of the Lupe Fiasco line referencing what was maybe the internet’s first meme? ‘Sneak that message to the masses, you can call me Chocolate Rain.’

Kyle was tapping into the wealth-inequality zeitgeist I was getting at in my single, “I Want (Money),” so I asked him to hop on the remix. Then I figured I might as well turn it into a proper posse cut. There aren’t many rappers saying much these days, so I was happy to get McKinley Dixon, one of rap’s most celebrated storytellers of the decade, to kick things off. The outcome is a remix that trades the subtlety of the original for a punchier statement of desperation, without losing the funk."