Plato III (Plato The Third) – the multigenre hip hop project of Ryan Silva, has shared his latest single, “I Want (Money) Remix” is a fresh collab from the Texas-born and LA-based rapper/singer, guest featuring Richmond artist McKinley Dixon and Brooklyn-based Kyle Bethel.

The original track appears on Plato’s latest album Grown, released this fall via Polyvinyl Record Co. Ten songs that meditate on the grind of settling down, embracing early adulthood, and being an artist in a capitalist society. Channeling the influence of “grown folks music,” Grown rides between the golden dusty grooves of vintage Boogie and Funk, crossed with conscious Southern Rap that pays homage to the likes of Little Brother, Devin the Dude, and Outkast.

On “I Want (Money) Remix,” Dixon and Bethel join Plato in trading bars on the Grown track that contemplates the need for cash, highlighting their unique rapping styles, while featuring lines from Bethel’s viral 2024 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. (ed: “Sneak that message to the masses, you can call me Chocolate Rain” from the track “Yoga Flame”)

“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.”