AFTER SERVING 3 YEARS BIG GATES IS FINALLY HOME! SAY'S HE PICKED STRAIGHT BANGERS FOR PLIES ALBUM!

"Hey, man, P got a lot of songs," Gates told us exclusively on the BET red carpet.
"He actually records a lot of songs he don't put out," Gates continued. "Going through that whole process of all them songs — just about all of them are hits anyway — it was a hard process. But I think I got it pretty much nailed to the T."

Any favorites?

"All of them," Gates added. "My whole purpose was to pick 18 classic songs. I wanted to like all 18 the same. I wanted to say, 'This my favorite, this my favorite, this my favorite.' So I think we got that."

"We ain't calling it a classic — we calling it an antique," Plies chimed in. "It ain't just me that's saying it, the streets are saying it. We ain't doing the classic, we did them the last three [albums], so it's fortified: Goon Affiliated the antique."

"We done stepped up," Gates declared. "New terminology — antique instead of classic."

Plies' new single is "Medicine," featuring Keri Hilson. Goon Affiliated has no official release date at press time.