Having emerged performing as part of Black Vanilla, DJ Plead noticed his work was pushing him towards rediscovering his Arabic background. “Growing up, [being half Lebanese] wasn’t something I was flashing around—I was ashamed that I was not particularly proud of it. Being half, you kind of feel a bit disconnected from it, because you feel like you aren’t a proper participant in it—the diaspora or the culture—so music for me was a way to really prove somehow that I do have a connection to it,” he told DJ Mag. 

DJ Plead’s debut EP Get In Circle was released via DECISIONS records in 2018, followed by Pleats Plead on Nervous Horizon less than a year later. FACT celebrated the latter as having a quality of “something refreshingly unfussy.” He then worked with 8ULENTINA on the track "Were You Tough?" On her TT (Formerly Tobago Tracks) released Bodyguard EP.