August 5, 2024 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Everybody's j Envy Jess hilarious, charlamage the guy. We are
the Breakfast Club. We got our niece nolive with us today.
We got a special guest in the building, Polo G. Welcomes.
How are you feeling, brother?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All good, new album dropping hood poet back outside for sure. Yeah,
we haven't seen you in a while.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Its been a minute.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's been a minute. What took so long?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You know?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I went through a lot of things, you know, with
my music and just personally kept on derailing me. But
like you know, I'm actually like glad I went through
it a thing because I feel like I wouldn't have
got the product that I ended up with, and I
feel like it's the best one that I could have had,
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and any yet that I would have dropped.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
What we're going through. Was it like a writer's block
or you didn't know what sound you wanted or label.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
All Leo? You know.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What about personally? He said, personally, was it gave you
the person?
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Get into the new music?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Girl over here, get to the person.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
When he said something, I really.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
At first they told me like, oh, Polo G flipped
the Michael Jackson record, and I'm like, not, Mike, like,
how dare you? But then I actually really liked the record.
Were you not comfortable because it was a more like
mainstream poppy type record. I mean, it's still a rap.
But did you feel like you're going different from like
your core music or.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
You're saying like with my new album, no, I feel
like I was definitely getting back to my core because,
like my project that I dropped beforehand, I was trying
to be more a little more mainstream versatile. But like
on this album, That's why I tiedled the hood poet
because I connected back with my rules.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What's the what's a hood poet to you?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's like a spokesperson for the naghbor.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You know, person's really speaking on telling everybody's story at once,
not just you know.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
How can you still relate to the hood, polo? I
mean you you live in large in l A. We
see you walking down Rodale Drive. You got a big
stack of money. Feel free to pass Uncle hunting if
you want to. But I'm I'm just watching, don't you
got it? But how can you still relate.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
To the hood?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I mean, as where I come from, I'm always naturally
relate to them. You know, I still got close feelings
with like my family, friends, everybody that's still come from that.
You know, I'm really you know, I really come from
it for real, So I'm always Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You feel a bit of a survivor's remorse.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I feel like I do at times though, like overdoing
for people, feeling like damn, I know I was in
that situation before.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You to get caught up in the in the feeling
that you have to go back and help.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah, I feel like that's a good thing though, having
that type obligation or feeling obligated.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
What is the acronym for hood poet uh Stanford?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
He overcame obstacles during pain or emotional trauma.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So have you been exploring that, Like, have you been
talking to like a therapist, a counselor just.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I tried a few times. Yeah, I do want to
like make it more like a regular thing, but I have, like, yeah,
a few times.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yeah, you got to find the right person therapists and
y'all walk in you you'll be consistent.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, that's what I feel like it is.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Because I saw a couple of months ago you posted
a drugs and liquor helped me cope with pain, but
I need better vices.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Have you found any better vices?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I really laid back off drinking. I ain't been drinking
for a little while. I won't say that long. It'll
probably been only like a month. But no, I'll be
really like working out a lot, I hope from time
to time, like I just try to do. I like
being by myself. I feel like that's a decent vice
(04:07):
if it is going. But like being by myself helped
me think clearly.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You ain't got no game.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You can't play basketball. I'm decent, can't test the net,
so you don't even know do anything.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm a three point specialist, not not even close. Now.
Hall of Fame was a number one album.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Did you set any expectations for yourself when you was
working on hood Port after having so much success with
Hall of Fame?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Definitely, Like first, like creating the album and coming off
of like my album being so big, the one that
the Hall of Fame, Like at first that was my
main primary goal, but like after all the time, how
I went past. My biggest thing was just getting the
music out and just making sure it was like the
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best music that I could put together, you know, and
really just trying to put my soul into it. But
definitely early on that was probably one of my primary focuses.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And then it's shifted.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I read somewhere too.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I don't know this is true, but you said, you know,
only rapping history to have every album go two times platinum.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I think it was like at that time. I don't know,
I don't really know what what they meant by, but
I did see, Uh, what's the Twitter account. It's one
of my favorite hip hop daily the certifications?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, is that true?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
If that's true, I just saw it and I was like, man,
that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The certifications. They checked the numbers and everything on that site.
What I said, They checked the numbers and everything on
that site. He said, every album you put out is
going two times platin Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What does that look like? Money wise?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
In your Podcastodet saying how they don't make the money
off the record.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Sales, I'm just wondering, like, yeah, I mean I can't
really relate to the oh.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You're getting the money off your records?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Would you rather go back to the days where it
was more independent? Because I realized this time around the
reason I asked, is usually the labels are recalled, but
I was getting calls from people outside like Polar want
to come to the breakfast club. I'm like whatever, but
it was it seemed like it was more of an
independent way of doing things opposed to actually going to
the label. So is that going back to the roots
and going back to where it started from the reason
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you're doing it that way?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I don't give what you asks me.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So usually the label books you or the label calls
to get Polo G on the radio or whatever it is,
but this time was more of a personal relationship, which
was weird. So I was curious to if that's the
route that you want to go, more to an independent
route where it's going outside of the record label.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I'm always like collaborate with my label on ideas or
doing anything media wise, but I think it's definitely a
good thing to just create a good like team on
the inside to do a lot of the same things
that the label would do, just so you ain't so.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Dependent on them you feel like the label wasn't doing
enough for you.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
No, I definitely don't think that like they step for me.
But like I said, it's really about building your own
personal team for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
What do labels do nowadays? Far as.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I feel like it's like a lot of groundwork that
they do, the things that you probably may not see,
you know, and just staying on point. And I know
I talk to my team to my label a lot
about like what I should do from an analytics standpoint.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I saw a lot of people saying they was wondering
why Little TJ isn't featured on the album.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Man, me and TJ, we just be having a lock in.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Brody just he be gone like probably eighty percent of
the year, Like you can never really get a hold,
but that's still my boy.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
We locked in for the y'all be doing records, y'all
be in the studio together.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Like yeah, most of the time. That's like the only
rapper that I be in the studio with.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Like most of the time we I just sent a
track back and forth, like a lot of feature records
that I have. I never like, I probably had two
or three songs with a little Baby before I ever
met him in person. So me and TJ, we always
lock in. We got that chemistry together. Right after I signed,
they put us in the studio together. He had just
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signed before me. And like we basically like grew up
together in the music industry.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Now, you know, while Good gave you a Donkey of
the day because you were saying that you were one
of the only rappers.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
With no security, now you got all this June.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
And the reason I was so disappointed because I'm like, yo,
Polo has always been one of the smart ones. You
walk around all the jury, you got money hanging out
your pocket. Why was you testing the streets in that way?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
That wasn't like sometimes I feel like because I ain't
always all always out there, people don't know like when
I'm trolling or just playing around something like that. Onen't
no like I'm trying to entice nobody or trying to
puff my chest out.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I was just really borshit, like I.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Ain't even like, you know, I probably was four hours
away by the time I posted that, you know, like,
I ain't no goofy like that. I'll just be trolling stuff.
And that's something I've been doing since the beginning of
my career. Is just like I'll be forgetting that I'm
at a like bigger point in my career where people
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would take down anything, and you know, so I that
was definitely a learning exp like something that I had
to learn to just be my mind.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
For with hippod being your comeback project from the break
that you took, what is like the takeaway you want
people to get from.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
This that I really put my all into the project,
that I took my time with it, because this the
longest it ever took me to drop a project in
my career. Like I was on the cycle of dropping
an album every nine months in the beginning of my career.
So like, with taking so much time, it had to
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be the best shit that how I could create.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Were you nervous doing this album because you said that
you wanted to stop your vices, whether it was drinking
or drugs, So without using vices doing this or doing that,
where you were you thinking that maybe your mind couldn't
put out an album you couldn't rap without those vices.
With that a fair at all?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Sometimes that's that's a thing, you know. Coming early on
into my career, like I like pills was my thing
a lot, and I made a lot of good.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Songs off drugs.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You would start thinking like, oh, that's the only way
I'm a and then like you, it's really just a thing.
A fine to yourself. No, I feel like now at
this point in my life, I make my best music
SOB And.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
How did you get off those vices? How did you
finally went off and say I'm not doing this anymore?
Was it a scare, was it family? Was it management?
Or was it yourself?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's always myself. It's definitely like.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Like like dealing with the like mental problems that come
with it, like you know, you know when you drink
too much and then it's like you're trying to pour
yourself out of that depression, all that darkness, Like going
through that and not wanting to be in that here
space again is what really made me straight away from.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
You think you're trying to escape something, because you know,
when I listen to a record like you know, barely
holding on and you like, you know, definite, definite air
that should have leave you with a chilled spine, even
though my spirits down, like I'm okay, I feel fine.
Shots from that Still nine and from that Hillside, I'm
from the trenches where they just murder just to kill time.
Like it feels like you feel like you're dealing with
(11:50):
some real dark stuff on this albums. You feel like
you were doing all that just to try to escape.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, you said for show for shure, I feel like
that's it go hand in hand with the the just
the rapper lifestyle too.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Why you may.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Indulge in certain things, but I definitely feel like it's
an escape thing sometimes too.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Yeah, because on turning back you say I need some therapy,
Like you literally say that, So you're clearly self aware
that there's something going on.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, for sure, And.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Even now having a common even talking to you now,
I feel like mentally you might be somewhere somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You got a lot on your.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Mind always though, that's that's that's, that's just me.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Does it make these press runs even more difficult because
you know, you got to go out hand promote the album,
but then you're dealing with real life issues as well.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, not really.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Press runs going to be a little difficult to me
because I ain't really like a person that like to talk,
so we know.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Also on the turning back you talk about how you
gave your heart to the streets and got nothing in return.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Where would you say.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Your heart is now?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
My heart right now it's with my family, my son.
I love my son a whole lot, and that's why
I want to like, I ain't. I wouldn't say shift
my focus, but like be more attentive in that area.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Ole man he five, okay, okay, How fatherhood has changed
you because you're young?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
He was a young pops.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, it changed me for the better, for sure. It'd
be teaching me patients. I'm a very impatient person, but
dealing with my son helped me, like, like learn to
be more patient and just see the beauty and life
for real.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
I want to stay on the turning back record because
you talk about your brother and you said I missed
my Brosky through it all you was you was dead
for me? How is his absence affecting you on a
day to day basis? And and just what he's going
through because he's he was charged with murder, right.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I wasn't even talking talking about my my blood brother.
I was talking about my home be Money, who passed
away in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh wow, okay.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And but definitely my my little brother. You know, we
was tight, We was close, So I speak to him.
I'll be missing him a lot though. That's like that
was my dog.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I mean, that is my dog.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Do you feel like that?
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I don't want to say that's your fault with like
the wrapper lifestyle, letting them him maybe getting jammed up
like that.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I definitely wouldn't say that. No, you can't really call
it to be honest, to be totally honest.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And let her letter from my pops. You're talking about
how you don't want to let your son down, like
that is one of your biggest fears.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But I feel like, you know, you did have your kid.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Once you got money, you up, So I don't, like,
what is the fear of that. You can take care
of yourself, You can take care of your family.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I just know how important it was to me, like
for my father to beat up for me, and like
definitely just be enough for my son an important thing
for me because I know like how much account to
put that time in. My pops was there for me
everything every point in my life, making sure we did
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our homework, somethings simple as hanging your jacket up, playing
catch with you in the backyard, Like that's things a
kid gonna remember more than me being able to pay
for anything for my son.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, so it's important for you to give your dad
his flower as well.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
That's him on the record.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Too.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
What else did you learn from your pops?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Like I really want to know, like how to how
to have a father figure keep you from really, you know,
succumbing to the screeens of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
My pops he a really really wise person.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
He always gonna give you the pros or cons to
any situation. Somebody that's real easy to talk to. I
feel like he kept me away from or out of
trouble a lot of times a lot of time, you know,
or just being that voice or reason you know, when you're.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Having a conversations with your son or interactions with your son.
What do you do that you like? Damn that that
was my pop. Pops did this for me.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Like, it's a lot of things I do.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I feel like it's similar to my poss We almost
like like the same person. Like I see that and damn,
then I think I do.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
What's it?
Speaker 6 (16:26):
What's your relationship now with your with your mother station
Mac because she was your manager.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
She's not no more.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
No, she's not my mother no more. You know, that's
my my ma. Mom.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Always loved my mama. You just probably ain't in the
best space right now on communicating terms.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But that's that's my I'm always.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
How did you find your moms? How did that conversation?
But that had to be a tough one.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It was just a mutual thing, you know, it wasn't really.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Michael and Joe, Janet and Joe.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You gotta be a conversation because that's moms like you
go hard for you though you do, like.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Do y'all still communicating now?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Not often?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
You know, it's still communication there. It's just not like
how it used to be. But I feel like that's
just a rough patch in our relationship that to get
back to where where it was.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
When you see family public issues spill over the social media,
like you know, everybody saw the situation between your mom
and your sister.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Do you intervene or do you let them work that up?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
For sure, I'm always intervening.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
It's like I don't want to see no ship like that,
you know, so I'm always trying to get in between.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And before we go too far.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Too far, it was fighting and shooting Chicago, Chicago. I
might have to start at in Chicago with Florida, he said.
Before it go too far, it was fighting and shooting Polo.
That's normal to Chicago people.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Nor is it even something that can be worked out?
You think?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, for sure? We family. I mean, I like, I
feel like cuss who I am?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
That's it's it's just being broadcasted more and like everybody
gonna talk about it. But every everybody family go through
go through ship like that shit I'm accustomed to.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I'm like minus to shoot, No, that's normal to him, y'all.
And how do you intervene because you can't pick a side.
It's like you almost got to just try to put
them both in the room and be like, listen, had
this conversation.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yeah, that's that's definitely the angle to take. Because my
sister a pretty hair strong person.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
She had mother child, you know, so you definitely got
to be Have you tried that yet?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Have you tried to have to work it out on
the phone first, of course, because you don't want to
be in the room yet, but to try to get
their feelings out and squash it because they mom and daughter.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It's something that I want to get around to. But
I'm definitely letting them breathe a little bit more right now.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I just like, I just like the energy to y'all.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Bro, I always like the capital lot I liked watching
y'all as a family unit.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I just thought that was dope. Mom helped managing the
rapper Sun. I just thought that was dope. Now, now
you mentioned you grew anti social and you said it's
all it's y'all's fault.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Who is y'all?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Like just I ran through a lot of different friends
or just like people I was associated with, and it's
like I always go through a phase of having to
cut off a lot of different people. A lot of
people came and went in my life. So I feel
like that keep me even more stamped offish than I
was before.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
To be fair, you also are evolving as an artist
and then you know in personal life and then like
public persona too. So some people are just there to
get you to your next phase.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah that's the way you look at.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
But I want to talk about your creative process within
this project. Can you describe because.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You said this is the longest you know that it
took for you to put this together.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
What was it like? Did you create on beat?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You know?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Was it more like poems because it is a hood poet? Like?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I was?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Definitely I was locked in with a producer. I was
locked in with south Side on ato a Mafia, and
we got locked in for like two months and we create.
We made like a large bulk of the album in
them two months, like probably like let's say eight or
nine of the eighteen songs that's on the So we
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was just building that chemistry and really went from there.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Who else was on the project besides eight A eight?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
He got a he got a team of producers, soh uh.
Smat is one of his producers that I work real
closely with, and Atl Jacob on there. I got Ohs
from Chicago he on there? Who I'm missing? I don't
want to make nobody Mad.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Had a lot of producers on that.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Check the credits. Check the credits. Who did we a shoot?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
That was? That was?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
That's not how you pronounced it.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I'm sure we are shoot. I'm sure that's but that
is how spelled.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Because they shoot, I don't know what that was.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
We shoot it like, I don't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I put like, that's how I talk.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I didn't want to put will like I think that
would have sounded weird or it would have been a
weird title.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
That's in the hook, we got the guns, will shoot. No,
I ain't worried about what he'll do.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Are you ever nervous about that? Seeing what's going on
with young thug put stuff like that, rep like, damn,
I wonder if they could ever use this against me
at any time.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm not worried because I'm not doing nothing. I'm not
worried about.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Well, you did get arrested back in April. It was
a loaded firearm in the hotel room. I don't know
if it was yours, but all right, got you, Okay, okay, anti.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
See.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But here's the thing. For coming from the street, you are.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
You are a legitimate businessman now, so if it's not yours,
I feel like it's okay to say it's not mine.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm not to say who it is, but it ain't mine.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Apology A counselor will say, don't say anything until the courtation.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Did you see the discussion that Black TV was having.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
What he was talking about, he got concerns about you
because he feels like you might have one foot in
the street. Still, what are your thoughts about people who
have those concerns.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
That about me?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Like I said, I think they shouldn't have that concern
at all because I'm not doing I go to I
go home after I come from the studio.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
No, I don't really ain't nothing too much going on
my life. I'm just you know, I'm just a rapper.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I feel like the brothers who survived the Streets Chicago,
they're literally like actual soldiers just because of everything that
they've experienced, the trauma or the PTSD and stuff. So
is it hard finding happiness now because you live a
great life? But is it hard actually being happy because
of all the traumas are your past and any things
you might still be dealing with that?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I think because I deal I feel like I cope
with it with that stuff pretty well because like it's
like like how we were saying, it is something that
becomes regular, Like I don't really I don't really be
too told off by like death or nothing no more
like so I be really able to accept a lot
of that stuff now. But I do have those moments
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of survivors remre or just like my trauma's catching up
to me sometimes. But I feel like, all in all,
I cope with it well. I mean I got advice
that I didn't really touch on his music though, Like
I'm always hire that in my pockets, be able to
deal with my problem.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Are you accepting of it and just numb to it?
That's a difference, right, like learning to accept something and
just being numb to it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Like a little bit of both, a little bit of both.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
You said music is one of your vices. What are
some of the things you listen to to coe like
artists or even decades.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I like all types of music. I'm always on YouTube.
I like R and B music or just like I
wouldn't even consider it arm because like what what category
like sexy drill?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
All on? That's like raping?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What the hell is sexy drills?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
R and B?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
But drill because I like that Kailani song. Yeah, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Saying they call it sexy drill? Why because you're killing
pussy literally drill be talked to some times that sexy woman.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
It's called sexy drill.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
We didn't name it. Men named it.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
So not if you was with a man and you're
always setting the mood, No, do not put.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
That on.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Setting the mood to sexy drill?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
No not No.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I really don't really like that term like that, but
I just rock with it.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Yeah, I like.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Blad Also you face timed him, you said you want
to face to face, Like what what? Where did all
that start from? Like what is this?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Because you called him the FEDS?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Like blid Man. It was really a situation where.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I came across him and having a sit down and
my name came up, and blid had an issue with
me making a tweet responding to a tweet that somebody
made about him being of police, this before I ever
seen the interview about him being the police, and I
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said some shited along the lines like I agree, you know,
and then we end up seeing each other in the bank.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He chopped it up with me. I really left it alone.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I ain't never say nothing about him since, but like
the way he was talking in an interview with actors,
like it was almost like he was I don't know,
like he still felt the way and he's saying that
he that I didn't never respond to him for an interview,
and it was like he just fake got to going
in and I didn't really understand that from a person
who had an issue with me speaking on him publicly.
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So that's really where my issue came from. And I
trying I'm trying to talk to him like a man.
It ain't really no more to it. But then he
trying to remind me he fifty You should have known
that before.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
He was speaking on me, though.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Y'all had an actual meeting.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
No, he don't want Yeah, yeah he I ran into
him at the bank, so.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You pulled up on him, But he said, hey, I'm ladder.
Did you know it was him? As soon as you
see him.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I was in the line at the bank this like
during COVID time. He got his mask on, but I'm like,
you know, I looked back at him and I smiled,
you know, And that's when he was willing to engage
in conversation. I guess, you know, And we really it
wasn't really nothing. We just chopped it up about like
why he felt the way, you.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Know you said.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
You also said in the song, you can't relapse off
these drugs, all right, Peter Juice, you really took your
last perk with juice? Could you say that in the
real You said I popped my last one with you?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah? Yeah, I haven't did that since really, how longer?
Was it? Like five years ago?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Okay? Okay, you remember that last experience outside of just
the drugs?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, I remember my last time just kicking it with Juice. Period.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
He used to stay fifteen minutes away from me, so
I pulled up on I used to pull up on
him a.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Lot of time. He had hit me like, bro, just
pull up on me today. We don't.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
We didn't record music a lot of those times. I
just were just kicking it together. So that was one
of those days.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
What did Juice mean to the city?
Speaker 4 (28:10):
A lot of Juice man, he like no, he a
rock star, like he different. He really separated itself from
the rest of the pack. I feel like he definitely
wanted a kind. A lot of people appreciate him, and
and it's like a good, like a dope thing, like
people coming from a lot of different upbringings that are
able to support or rock with Juice because like some
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of his music, you would hear it and you wouldn't
naturally think people in the hood to play this, but
like people, everybody rock with Juice.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Now you also got the you got a September eighteenth
reference on the album. Is that related to your your
late friend who?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, that's one of my other homies though Oie.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
His name was t Gucci. He passed away. He passed away.
I was fifteen, he was sixteen.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
He had got killed her.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah he got killed.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah damn much that much deafine? Have you experienced? You
even know what grief feels like.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I know what grief feel like.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Uh, I went through I went I dealt with death
closely a lot, since I was like a lookle kid,
like I like my first encounter with death for real
or like a murder.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
My my uncle died in a shootout. I was like
nine years old.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
That was like my first real experience dealing with that
and ever since then, that's like what I've been going through.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
So so you don't feel pain anymore. It's just this
feels natural now.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I mean, I definitely feel pain still. I'm a human, but.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I just don't really read too much into it because
I know, you know, people live in certain lives, this
will come with it.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
So what adjustments do you not not even what adjustments?
What do you feel your duty is to your community?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Is it to make records like we a shoot or
is it to say, you know what, I got to
say something to help the next generation be better?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
I definitely in my music, I definitely dabble between the two.
But primary like if you know Polo G as an artist,
like most of the time I'm speaking on the problems
or like telling you how this is messed up, or
that I could connect with you on the level I've
been through something too. I feel like my main priority though,
in my community specifically, is just getting a hold of
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the kids. You know, like everybody who've been in the
streets or have their own path and they adults like
it's hard to patch them relationships up, Like you know,
people pushing peace now and trying to patch them, but
like everybody ain't gonna hide that same mindset. It's the
best thing to do is go get a hold of
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the youth before they get too deep into some type
of issue.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Once once bodies start dropping, it's hard to just go
back and be like yeah, okay, we're good now.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, yeah, I get it. I totally get it.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Let's get into a joint off the album. Let's play
Hood Poet.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
That's the one you want to play? What's the one?
What's the one? What's the single?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
We all shoot? Lord?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
All right, let's get it on. We will shoot with
the accent, I said, we will shoot with the accent.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Chart we are shoot.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
You make Jamaica. They just make it Jamaica. We will shoot.
It's the Breakfast Lub. We appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Brother, I appreciate you. It's the Breakfast Lug.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Good morning, wake that ass.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Everybody's j Envy Jess hilarious, charlamage the guy. We are
the Breakfast Club. We got our niece nolive with us today.
We got a special guest in the building, Polo G. Welcomes.
How are you feeling, brother?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All good, new album dropping hood poet back outside for sure. Yeah,
we haven't seen you in a while.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Its been a minute.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's been a minute. What took so long?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You know?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I went through a lot of things, you know, with
my music and just personally kept on derailing me. But
like you know, I'm actually like glad I went through
it a thing because I feel like I wouldn't have
got the product that I ended up with, and I
feel like it's the best one that I could have had,
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and any yet that I would have dropped.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
What we're going through. Was it like a writer's block
or you didn't know what sound you wanted or label.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
All Leo? You know.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What about personally? He said, personally, was it gave you
the person?
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Get into the new music?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Girl over here, get to the person.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
When he said something, I really.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
At first they told me like, oh, Polo G flipped
the Michael Jackson record, and I'm like, not, Mike, like,
how dare you? But then I actually really liked the record.
Were you not comfortable because it was a more like
mainstream poppy type record. I mean, it's still a rap.
But did you feel like you're going different from like
your core music or.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
You're saying like with my new album, no, I feel
like I was definitely getting back to my core because,
like my project that I dropped beforehand, I was trying
to be more a little more mainstream versatile. But like
on this album, That's why I tiedled the hood poet
because I connected back with my rules.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What's the what's a hood poet to you?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's like a spokesperson for the naghbor.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You know, person's really speaking on telling everybody's story at once,
not just you know.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
How can you still relate to the hood, polo? I
mean you you live in large in l A. We
see you walking down Rodale Drive. You got a big
stack of money. Feel free to pass Uncle hunting if
you want to. But I'm I'm just watching, don't you
got it? But how can you still relate.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
To the hood?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I mean, as where I come from, I'm always naturally
relate to them. You know, I still got close feelings
with like my family, friends, everybody that's still come from that.
You know, I'm really you know, I really come from
it for real, So I'm always Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You feel a bit of a survivor's remorse.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I feel like I do at times though, like overdoing
for people, feeling like damn, I know I was in
that situation before.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You to get caught up in the in the feeling
that you have to go back and help.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah, I feel like that's a good thing though, having
that type obligation or feeling obligated.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
What is the acronym for hood poet uh Stanford?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
He overcame obstacles during pain or emotional trauma.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So have you been exploring that, Like, have you been
talking to like a therapist, a counselor just.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I tried a few times. Yeah, I do want to
like make it more like a regular thing, but I have, like, yeah,
a few times.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yeah, you got to find the right person therapists and
y'all walk in you you'll be consistent.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, that's what I feel like it is.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Because I saw a couple of months ago you posted
a drugs and liquor helped me cope with pain, but
I need better vices.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Have you found any better vices?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I really laid back off drinking. I ain't been drinking
for a little while. I won't say that long. It'll
probably been only like a month. But no, I'll be
really like working out a lot, I hope from time
to time, like I just try to do. I like
being by myself. I feel like that's a decent vice
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if it is going. But like being by myself helped
me think clearly.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You ain't got no game.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You can't play basketball. I'm decent, can't test the net,
so you don't even know do anything.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm a three point specialist, not not even close. Now.
Hall of Fame was a number one album.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Did you set any expectations for yourself when you was
working on hood Port after having so much success with
Hall of Fame?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Definitely, Like first, like creating the album and coming off
of like my album being so big, the one that
the Hall of Fame, Like at first that was my
main primary goal, but like after all the time, how
I went past. My biggest thing was just getting the
music out and just making sure it was like the
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best music that I could put together, you know, and
really just trying to put my soul into it. But
definitely early on that was probably one of my primary focuses.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And then it's shifted.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I read somewhere too.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I don't know this is true, but you said, you know,
only rapping history to have every album go two times platinum.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I think it was like at that time. I don't know,
I don't really know what what they meant by, but
I did see, Uh, what's the Twitter account. It's one
of my favorite hip hop daily the certifications?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, is that true?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
If that's true, I just saw it and I was like, man,
that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The certifications. They checked the numbers and everything on that site.
What I said, They checked the numbers and everything on
that site. He said, every album you put out is
going two times platin Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What does that look like? Money wise?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
In your Podcastodet saying how they don't make the money
off the record.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Sales, I'm just wondering, like, yeah, I mean I can't
really relate to the oh.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You're getting the money off your records?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Would you rather go back to the days where it
was more independent? Because I realized this time around the
reason I asked, is usually the labels are recalled, but
I was getting calls from people outside like Polar want
to come to the breakfast club. I'm like whatever, but
it was it seemed like it was more of an
independent way of doing things opposed to actually going to
the label. So is that going back to the roots
and going back to where it started from the reason
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you're doing it that way?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I don't give what you asks me.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So usually the label books you or the label calls
to get Polo G on the radio or whatever it is,
but this time was more of a personal relationship, which
was weird. So I was curious to if that's the
route that you want to go, more to an independent
route where it's going outside of the record label.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I'm always like collaborate with my label on ideas or
doing anything media wise, but I think it's definitely a
good thing to just create a good like team on
the inside to do a lot of the same things
that the label would do, just so you ain't so.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Dependent on them you feel like the label wasn't doing
enough for you.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
No, I definitely don't think that like they step for me.
But like I said, it's really about building your own
personal team for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
What do labels do nowadays? Far as.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I feel like it's like a lot of groundwork that
they do, the things that you probably may not see,
you know, and just staying on point. And I know
I talk to my team to my label a lot
about like what I should do from an analytics standpoint.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I saw a lot of people saying they was wondering
why Little TJ isn't featured on the album.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Man, me and TJ, we just be having a lock in.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Brody just he be gone like probably eighty percent of
the year, Like you can never really get a hold,
but that's still my boy.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
We locked in for the y'all be doing records, y'all
be in the studio together.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Like yeah, most of the time. That's like the only
rapper that I be in the studio with.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Like most of the time we I just sent a
track back and forth, like a lot of feature records
that I have. I never like, I probably had two
or three songs with a little Baby before I ever
met him in person. So me and TJ, we always
lock in. We got that chemistry together. Right after I signed,
they put us in the studio together. He had just
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signed before me. And like we basically like grew up
together in the music industry.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Now, you know, while Good gave you a Donkey of
the day because you were saying that you were one
of the only rappers.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
With no security, now you got all this June.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
And the reason I was so disappointed because I'm like, yo,
Polo has always been one of the smart ones. You
walk around all the jury, you got money hanging out
your pocket. Why was you testing the streets in that way?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
That wasn't like sometimes I feel like because I ain't
always all always out there, people don't know like when
I'm trolling or just playing around something like that. Onen't
no like I'm trying to entice nobody or trying to
puff my chest out.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I was just really borshit, like I.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Ain't even like, you know, I probably was four hours
away by the time I posted that, you know, like,
I ain't no goofy like that. I'll just be trolling stuff.
And that's something I've been doing since the beginning of
my career. Is just like I'll be forgetting that I'm
at a like bigger point in my career where people
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would take down anything, and you know, so I that
was definitely a learning exp like something that I had
to learn to just be my mind.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
For with hippod being your comeback project from the break
that you took, what is like the takeaway you want
people to get from.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
This that I really put my all into the project,
that I took my time with it, because this the
longest it ever took me to drop a project in
my career. Like I was on the cycle of dropping
an album every nine months in the beginning of my career.
So like, with taking so much time, it had to
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be the best shit that how I could create.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Were you nervous doing this album because you said that
you wanted to stop your vices, whether it was drinking
or drugs, So without using vices doing this or doing that,
where you were you thinking that maybe your mind couldn't
put out an album you couldn't rap without those vices.
With that a fair at all?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Sometimes that's that's a thing, you know. Coming early on
into my career, like I like pills was my thing
a lot, and I made a lot of good.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Songs off drugs.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You would start thinking like, oh, that's the only way
I'm a and then like you, it's really just a thing.
A fine to yourself. No, I feel like now at
this point in my life, I make my best music
SOB And.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
How did you get off those vices? How did you
finally went off and say I'm not doing this anymore?
Was it a scare, was it family? Was it management?
Or was it yourself?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's always myself. It's definitely like.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Like like dealing with the like mental problems that come
with it, like you know, you know when you drink
too much and then it's like you're trying to pour
yourself out of that depression, all that darkness, Like going
through that and not wanting to be in that here
space again is what really made me straight away from.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
You think you're trying to escape something, because you know,
when I listen to a record like you know, barely
holding on and you like, you know, definite, definite air
that should have leave you with a chilled spine, even
though my spirits down, like I'm okay, I feel fine.
Shots from that Still nine and from that Hillside, I'm
from the trenches where they just murder just to kill time.
Like it feels like you feel like you're dealing with
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some real dark stuff on this albums. You feel like
you were doing all that just to try to escape.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, you said for show for shure, I feel like
that's it go hand in hand with the the just
the rapper lifestyle too.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Why you may.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Indulge in certain things, but I definitely feel like it's
an escape thing sometimes too.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Yeah, because on turning back you say I need some therapy,
Like you literally say that, So you're clearly self aware
that there's something going on.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, for sure, And.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Even now having a common even talking to you now,
I feel like mentally you might be somewhere somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You got a lot on your.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Mind always though, that's that's that's, that's just me.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Does it make these press runs even more difficult because
you know, you got to go out hand promote the album,
but then you're dealing with real life issues as well.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, not really.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Press runs going to be a little difficult to me
because I ain't really like a person that like to talk,
so we know.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Also on the turning back you talk about how you
gave your heart to the streets and got nothing in return.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Where would you say.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Your heart is now?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
My heart right now it's with my family, my son.
I love my son a whole lot, and that's why
I want to like, I ain't. I wouldn't say shift
my focus, but like be more attentive in that area.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Ole man he five, okay, okay, How fatherhood has changed
you because you're young?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
He was a young pops.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, it changed me for the better, for sure. It'd
be teaching me patients. I'm a very impatient person, but
dealing with my son helped me, like, like learn to
be more patient and just see the beauty and life
for real.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
I want to stay on the turning back record because
you talk about your brother and you said I missed
my Brosky through it all you was you was dead
for me? How is his absence affecting you on a
day to day basis? And and just what he's going
through because he's he was charged with murder, right.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I wasn't even talking talking about my my blood brother.
I was talking about my home be Money, who passed
away in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh wow, okay.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And but definitely my my little brother. You know, we
was tight, We was close, So I speak to him.
I'll be missing him a lot though. That's like that
was my dog.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I mean, that is my dog.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Do you feel like that?
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I don't want to say that's your fault with like
the wrapper lifestyle, letting them him maybe getting jammed up
like that.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I definitely wouldn't say that. No, you can't really call
it to be honest, to be totally honest.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And let her letter from my pops. You're talking about
how you don't want to let your son down, like
that is one of your biggest fears.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But I feel like, you know, you did have your kid.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Once you got money, you up, So I don't, like,
what is the fear of that. You can take care
of yourself, You can take care of your family.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I just know how important it was to me, like
for my father to beat up for me, and like
definitely just be enough for my son an important thing
for me because I know like how much account to
put that time in. My pops was there for me
everything every point in my life, making sure we did
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our homework, somethings simple as hanging your jacket up, playing
catch with you in the backyard, Like that's things a
kid gonna remember more than me being able to pay
for anything for my son.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, so it's important for you to give your dad
his flower as well.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
That's him on the record.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Too.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
What else did you learn from your pops?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Like I really want to know, like how to how
to have a father figure keep you from really, you know,
succumbing to the screeens of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
My pops he a really really wise person.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
He always gonna give you the pros or cons to
any situation. Somebody that's real easy to talk to. I
feel like he kept me away from or out of
trouble a lot of times a lot of time, you know,
or just being that voice or reason you know, when you're.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Having a conversations with your son or interactions with your son.
What do you do that you like? Damn that that
was my pop. Pops did this for me.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Like, it's a lot of things I do.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I feel like it's similar to my poss We almost
like like the same person. Like I see that and damn,
then I think I do.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
What's it?
Speaker 6 (16:26):
What's your relationship now with your with your mother station
Mac because she was your manager.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
She's not no more.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
No, she's not my mother no more. You know, that's
my my ma. Mom.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Always loved my mama. You just probably ain't in the
best space right now on communicating terms.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But that's that's my I'm always.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
How did you find your moms? How did that conversation?
But that had to be a tough one.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It was just a mutual thing, you know, it wasn't really.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Michael and Joe, Janet and Joe.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You gotta be a conversation because that's moms like you
go hard for you though you do, like.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Do y'all still communicating now?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Not often?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
You know, it's still communication there. It's just not like
how it used to be. But I feel like that's
just a rough patch in our relationship that to get
back to where where it was.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
When you see family public issues spill over the social media,
like you know, everybody saw the situation between your mom
and your sister.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Do you intervene or do you let them work that up?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
For sure, I'm always intervening.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
It's like I don't want to see no ship like that,
you know, so I'm always trying to get in between.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And before we go too far.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Too far, it was fighting and shooting Chicago, Chicago. I
might have to start at in Chicago with Florida, he said.
Before it go too far, it was fighting and shooting Polo.
That's normal to Chicago people.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Nor is it even something that can be worked out?
You think?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, for sure? We family. I mean, I like, I
feel like cuss who I am?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
That's it's it's just being broadcasted more and like everybody
gonna talk about it. But every everybody family go through
go through ship like that shit I'm accustomed to.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I'm like minus to shoot, No, that's normal to him, y'all.
And how do you intervene because you can't pick a side.
It's like you almost got to just try to put
them both in the room and be like, listen, had
this conversation.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yeah, that's that's definitely the angle to take. Because my
sister a pretty hair strong person.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
She had mother child, you know, so you definitely got
to be Have you tried that yet?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Have you tried to have to work it out on
the phone first, of course, because you don't want to
be in the room yet, but to try to get
their feelings out and squash it because they mom and daughter.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It's something that I want to get around to. But
I'm definitely letting them breathe a little bit more right now.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I just like, I just like the energy to y'all.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Bro, I always like the capital lot I liked watching
y'all as a family unit.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I just thought that was dope. Mom helped managing the
rapper Sun. I just thought that was dope. Now, now
you mentioned you grew anti social and you said it's
all it's y'all's fault.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Who is y'all?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Like just I ran through a lot of different friends
or just like people I was associated with, and it's
like I always go through a phase of having to
cut off a lot of different people. A lot of
people came and went in my life. So I feel
like that keep me even more stamped offish than I
was before.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
To be fair, you also are evolving as an artist
and then you know in personal life and then like
public persona too. So some people are just there to
get you to your next phase.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah that's the way you look at.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
But I want to talk about your creative process within
this project. Can you describe because.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You said this is the longest you know that it
took for you to put this together.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
What was it like? Did you create on beat?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You know?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Was it more like poems because it is a hood poet? Like?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I was?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Definitely I was locked in with a producer. I was
locked in with south Side on ato a Mafia, and
we got locked in for like two months and we create.
We made like a large bulk of the album in
them two months, like probably like let's say eight or
nine of the eighteen songs that's on the So we
(20:34):
was just building that chemistry and really went from there.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Who else was on the project besides eight A eight?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
He got a he got a team of producers, soh uh.
Smat is one of his producers that I work real
closely with, and Atl Jacob on there. I got Ohs
from Chicago he on there? Who I'm missing? I don't
want to make nobody Mad.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Had a lot of producers on that.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Check the credits. Check the credits. Who did we a shoot?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
That was? That was?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
That's not how you pronounced it.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I'm sure we are shoot. I'm sure that's but that
is how spelled.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Because they shoot, I don't know what that was.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
We shoot it like, I don't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I put like, that's how I talk.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I didn't want to put will like I think that
would have sounded weird or it would have been a
weird title.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
That's in the hook, we got the guns, will shoot. No,
I ain't worried about what he'll do.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Are you ever nervous about that? Seeing what's going on
with young thug put stuff like that, rep like, damn,
I wonder if they could ever use this against me
at any time.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm not worried because I'm not doing nothing. I'm not
worried about.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Well, you did get arrested back in April. It was
a loaded firearm in the hotel room. I don't know
if it was yours, but all right, got you, Okay, okay, anti.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
See.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But here's the thing. For coming from the street, you are.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
You are a legitimate businessman now, so if it's not yours,
I feel like it's okay to say it's not mine.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm not to say who it is, but it ain't mine.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Apology A counselor will say, don't say anything until the courtation.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Did you see the discussion that Black TV was having.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
What he was talking about, he got concerns about you
because he feels like you might have one foot in
the street. Still, what are your thoughts about people who
have those concerns.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
That about me?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Like I said, I think they shouldn't have that concern
at all because I'm not doing I go to I
go home after I come from the studio.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
No, I don't really ain't nothing too much going on
my life. I'm just you know, I'm just a rapper.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I feel like the brothers who survived the Streets Chicago,
they're literally like actual soldiers just because of everything that
they've experienced, the trauma or the PTSD and stuff. So
is it hard finding happiness now because you live a
great life? But is it hard actually being happy because
of all the traumas are your past and any things
you might still be dealing with that?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I think because I deal I feel like I cope
with it with that stuff pretty well because like it's
like like how we were saying, it is something that
becomes regular, Like I don't really I don't really be
too told off by like death or nothing no more
like so I be really able to accept a lot
of that stuff now. But I do have those moments
(23:44):
of survivors remre or just like my trauma's catching up
to me sometimes. But I feel like, all in all,
I cope with it well. I mean I got advice
that I didn't really touch on his music though, Like
I'm always hire that in my pockets, be able to
deal with my problem.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Are you accepting of it and just numb to it?
That's a difference, right, like learning to accept something and
just being numb to it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Like a little bit of both, a little bit of both.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
You said music is one of your vices. What are
some of the things you listen to to coe like
artists or even decades.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I like all types of music. I'm always on YouTube.
I like R and B music or just like I
wouldn't even consider it arm because like what what category
like sexy drill?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
All on? That's like raping?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What the hell is sexy drills?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
R and B?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
But drill because I like that Kailani song. Yeah, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Saying they call it sexy drill? Why because you're killing
pussy literally drill be talked to some times that sexy woman.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
It's called sexy drill.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
We didn't name it. Men named it.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
So not if you was with a man and you're
always setting the mood, No, do not put.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
That on.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Setting the mood to sexy drill?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
No not No.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I really don't really like that term like that, but
I just rock with it.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Yeah, I like.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Blad Also you face timed him, you said you want
to face to face, Like what what? Where did all
that start from? Like what is this?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Because you called him the FEDS?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Like blid Man. It was really a situation where.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I came across him and having a sit down and
my name came up, and blid had an issue with
me making a tweet responding to a tweet that somebody
made about him being of police, this before I ever
seen the interview about him being the police, and I
(26:05):
said some shited along the lines like I agree, you know,
and then we end up seeing each other in the bank.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He chopped it up with me. I really left it alone.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I ain't never say nothing about him since, but like
the way he was talking in an interview with actors,
like it was almost like he was I don't know,
like he still felt the way and he's saying that
he that I didn't never respond to him for an interview,
and it was like he just fake got to going
in and I didn't really understand that from a person
who had an issue with me speaking on him publicly.
(26:34):
So that's really where my issue came from. And I
trying I'm trying to talk to him like a man.
It ain't really no more to it. But then he
trying to remind me he fifty You should have known
that before.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
He was speaking on me, though.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Y'all had an actual meeting.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
No, he don't want Yeah, yeah he I ran into
him at the bank, so.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You pulled up on him, But he said, hey, I'm ladder.
Did you know it was him? As soon as you
see him.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I was in the line at the bank this like
during COVID time. He got his mask on, but I'm like,
you know, I looked back at him and I smiled,
you know, And that's when he was willing to engage
in conversation. I guess, you know, And we really it
wasn't really nothing. We just chopped it up about like
why he felt the way, you.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Know you said.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
You also said in the song, you can't relapse off
these drugs, all right, Peter Juice, you really took your
last perk with juice? Could you say that in the
real You said I popped my last one with you?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah? Yeah, I haven't did that since really, how longer?
Was it? Like five years ago?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Okay? Okay, you remember that last experience outside of just
the drugs?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, I remember my last time just kicking it with Juice. Period.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
He used to stay fifteen minutes away from me, so
I pulled up on I used to pull up on
him a.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Lot of time. He had hit me like, bro, just
pull up on me today. We don't.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
We didn't record music a lot of those times. I
just were just kicking it together. So that was one
of those days.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
What did Juice mean to the city?
Speaker 4 (28:10):
A lot of Juice man, he like no, he a
rock star, like he different. He really separated itself from
the rest of the pack. I feel like he definitely
wanted a kind. A lot of people appreciate him, and
and it's like a good, like a dope thing, like
people coming from a lot of different upbringings that are
able to support or rock with Juice because like some
(28:33):
of his music, you would hear it and you wouldn't
naturally think people in the hood to play this, but
like people, everybody rock with Juice.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Now you also got the you got a September eighteenth
reference on the album. Is that related to your your
late friend who?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, that's one of my other homies though Oie.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
His name was t Gucci. He passed away. He passed away.
I was fifteen, he was sixteen.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
He had got killed her.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah he got killed.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah damn much that much deafine? Have you experienced? You
even know what grief feels like.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I know what grief feel like.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Uh, I went through I went I dealt with death
closely a lot, since I was like a lookle kid,
like I like my first encounter with death for real
or like a murder.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
My my uncle died in a shootout. I was like
nine years old.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
That was like my first real experience dealing with that
and ever since then, that's like what I've been going through.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
So so you don't feel pain anymore. It's just this
feels natural now.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I mean, I definitely feel pain still. I'm a human, but.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I just don't really read too much into it because
I know, you know, people live in certain lives, this
will come with it.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
So what adjustments do you not not even what adjustments?
What do you feel your duty is to your community?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Is it to make records like we a shoot or
is it to say, you know what, I got to
say something to help the next generation be better?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
I definitely in my music, I definitely dabble between the two.
But primary like if you know Polo G as an artist,
like most of the time I'm speaking on the problems
or like telling you how this is messed up, or
that I could connect with you on the level I've
been through something too. I feel like my main priority though,
in my community specifically, is just getting a hold of
(30:26):
the kids. You know, like everybody who've been in the
streets or have their own path and they adults like
it's hard to patch them relationships up, Like you know,
people pushing peace now and trying to patch them, but
like everybody ain't gonna hide that same mindset. It's the
best thing to do is go get a hold of
(30:47):
the youth before they get too deep into some type
of issue.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Once once bodies start dropping, it's hard to just go
back and be like yeah, okay, we're good now.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, yeah, I get it. I totally get it.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Let's get into a joint off the album. Let's play
Hood Poet.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
That's the one you want to play? What's the one?
What's the one? What's the single?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
We all shoot? Lord?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
All right, let's get it on. We will shoot with
the accent, I said, we will shoot with the accent.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Chart we are shoot.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
You make Jamaica. They just make it Jamaica. We will shoot.
It's the Breakfast Lub. We appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Brother, I appreciate you. It's the Breakfast Lug.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Good morning, wake that ass.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
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