The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Polo G Speaks On Sobriety, Family Matters, Evolution As An Artist, New Album + More

Episode Date: August 5, 2024

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Polo G, welcome. What's up? How you feeling, brother? All good. New album dropping. Hood Poet. Back outside. For sure.

Yeah, we haven't seen you. In a while. It's been a minute. It's been a minute. What took so long? You know, I went through a lot of things, you know, with my music and just personally that kept on derailing me. But, you know, I'm actually, like, glad I went through everything

because I feel like I went and got the product that I ended up with. And I feel like it's the best one that I could have had in any year that I could have had in any year that I would have dropped. What were you going through? Was it like a writer's block or you didn't know what sound you wanted

or label? All the above, you know. And what about personally? You said personally, was it... We'll get to the personal. Let's talk about the music first.

Wait, before we get into the new music, I like him. We got some girl over here. Let's get to the personal let's talk about the music first before we get into the new music god damn got some girl over here get to the personal when he says something I want to know why what's taking so long

I really at first they told me like oh Polo G flipped the Michael Jackson record and I'm like not Mike like how dare he 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 rap but was did you feel like you're going different from like your core music or you 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 titled it Hood Poet because I connected back with my roots. What's a hood poet to you? It's like a spokesperson for the neighborhood, you know? Person's really speaking on, telling everybody's story at once, not just his. How can you still relate to the hood, Polo? I mean, you living large in LA, we see you walking down R? I mean, you live in Lodge in L.A.

We see you walking down Rodeo Drive. You got a big stack of money. Feel free to pass Uncle Hunnid if you want to. But I'm just watching the money hanging out your pocket. Un-got it. Don't you dare. Un-got it. But how can you still relate to the hood?

I mean, it's where I come from. I'm going to always naturally relate to them. I still got close feelings, my family, friends, everybody that still comes from that. You know, I really come from it for real. So I'm going to always, yeah. You feel a bit of a survivor's remorse? I feel like I do at times, though, like overdoing for people,

feeling like, damn, I know i was in that situation before you ever get caught up in the in the feeling that you have to go back and help yeah i feel like that's a good thing though having that type of obligation or feeling obligated what is the acronym for a poet uh stanford he overcame obstacles during pain or emotional trauma so have you been exploring that like have you been talking to like a therapist or a counselor just to see i tried a few times okay yeah i do want to like uh make it more like a regular thing but i have like did it a few times oh yeah you gotta find the right person once you find the right therapist and y'all lock in, you'll be consistent.

Yeah, that's what I feel like it is. I saw a couple months ago you posted, drugs and liquor help me cope with pain, but I need better vices. Have you found any better vices? Yeah. I really laid back off drinking. I ain't been drinking for a little while. I won't say that long.

It's probably been only like a month. But, no, I be really like working out a lot. I hoop from time to time. Like I just try to do. I like being by myself. I feel like that's a decent vice if it is one. But, like being by myself helped me think clearly. You ain't got no game.

Show me his 5'5". Show me his 5'5". You can't play basketball. I'm decent. I say I'm decent. Show me can't touch the net, so don't even... You're not going to do anything.

I'm a three-point specialist. You're not. You're not even close. Now, Hall of Fame was the number one album. Did you set any expectations for yourself when you was working on Hood Poet after having so much success, Hall of Fame was the number one album. Did you set any expectations for yourself when you was working on Hood Poet

after having so much success with Hall of Fame? Definitely, like, first, like, creating the album and coming off of, like, my album being so big, the one that I wrote, the Hall of Fame one. Like, at first, that was my main primary goal. But, like, after all the time how it went past my biggest thing was just getting the music out and just making sure it was like the best music that i could put together you know like and really just trying to put my soul into it but definitely early on that was probably one of my primary focuses and then it shifted I read

somewhere too I don't know this is true but you say you know only rapping in history to have every album go two times platinum yeah 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 what's the Twitter account it's one of my favorite Twitter accounts. Hip Hop Daily. Yeah, they be doing the certifications. Yeah. Is that true? I wonder if that's true. I just saw it and I was like,

man, that's interesting. Well, they do the certifications. They check the numbers and everything on that site. They what? I said they check the numbers and everything on that site. They said every album you put out has gone two times platinum. Yeah.

What does that look like money-wise? A lot. All in your pockets. Why you... You told me I wanted to ask about you, but he all in your pockets. No, because you always hear about parties saying how they don't make the money off the record sales I'm just wondering like yeah I mean I can't really relate to that I don't know 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 what call,

but I was getting calls from people outside be like, Polo want to come to the Breakfast Club. I'm like, whatever. But it seemed like it was more of an independent way of doing things as 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 you're doing it that way? I don't get what you're asking me right now. So usually the label books you or the label calls to get Polo G on the radio or whatever it is. from the reason you're doing it that way I don't know what you're asking so

usually the label books you or the label calls to get polo G on the radio or whatever it is but this is more of a personal relationship which was weird mm-hmm 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 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 dependent on them you feel like the label wasn't doing enough for you no 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. What do labels do nowadays for artists? 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 stand on point and and and i know i i i talk to my team um to my label a lot about like what i should do from an analytic standpoint i saw a lot of people saying uh they was wondering why little tj isn't featured on the album man me and tj we just be having to lock in brody just he he be gone like probably 80% of the year.

Like you can never really get a hold of him, but that's still my boy. We locked in forever. Y'all be doing records, y'all be in the studio together? Yeah, most of the time. That's like the only rapper that I be in the studio with. Like most of the time, I just send a track back and forth. Like a lot of feature records that I have, I never, like I probably had two or three lot of feature records that I have, I never, I probably had two or three songs with Lil Baby before I ever met him in person. So me and TJ, we always lock in.

We got that chemistry together. How'd y'all get so tight? Right after I signed, they put us in the studio together. He had just signed before me. We basically grew up together in the music industry now you know a while ago i gave you a donkey of the day because you was saying that you were one of the only rappers with no security now you got all this jewelry on and the reason i was so disappointed because i'm like yo polo has always been one of the

smart ones yeah you walk around all the jewelry you got money hanging out your pocket why was you testing the streets in that way 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 sometimes like that one no like i'm trying to entice nobody or trying to puff my chest out i was just really borscht like i ain't even like you know i probably was four hours away about the time i posted that you know like i ain't no goofy like that i'll just be trolling so 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 would take down anything. So that was definitely a learning, like something that I had to learn to just be more mindful. With Hip Hoard being your comeback project from the break that you took, what is like

the takeaway you want people to get from 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 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 be the best shit that I could create 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 during this or doing that were you were you thinking that maybe your mind couldn't put out an album you couldn't rap without those vices was that a fear at all uh

sometimes that's that's a thing you know coming early on into my career like i had like pills was my thing a lot and i made a lot of good songs off drugs you would start thinking like oh that's the only way i'm gonna and then like you this is really just a thing of finding yourself, you know. I feel like now at this point in my life, I make my best music sober. And how did you get off those vices? How did you finally wean off and say, I'm not doing this anymore? Was it a scare? Was it family? Was it management?

Or was it yourself? It's definitely like dealing with the mental problems that come with it. You know when you drink too much and then it's like you're trying to pull yourself out of that depression or that darkness. Going through that and not wanting to be in that headspace again is what really made me stray away from it. Do you think you're trying to escape something? Because when I listen to a record like Barely Holding On, and you like, you know, death in the air,

that shit will leave you with a chilled spine, even though my spirit's down. Like I'm okay, I feel fine, shots from that steel nine, aim from that hillside, I'm from the trenches where they just murder just to kill time. Like it feels like you, feels like you dealing with some real dark stuff on this album. So you feel like you was doing all that just to try time. Like it feels like you, feels like you dealing with some real dark stuff on this album.

So you feel like you was doing all that just to try to escape? Yeah, you said, for sure, for sure. I feel like that's, it go hand in hand with the, just the rapper lifestyle too. Why you may indulge in certain things, but, I definitely feel like it's an escape thing sometimes too.

Cause on turning back, you say, I need some therapy. You literally say that. You're clearly self aware that there's something going on. Yeah, for sure. And even now having a conversation, even talking to you now, I feel like mentally you might be somewhere else. You got a lot on your mind. Always though.

That's just me me does it make these press runs even more difficult because you know you got to go out here and promote the album but then you're dealing with real life issues as well no not really press runs gonna be a little difficult to me because i ain't really like a person that like to talk so we know also on no turning back uh you talk about how you gave your heart to the streets and got nothing in return and they like to talk. We know. Also, on No Turning Back, you talk about how you gave your heart to the streets and got nothing in return. Where would you say your heart is now?

My heart right now is with my family, my son. I love my son a whole lot. And that's why I want to, I wouldn't say shift my focus, but be more attentive in that area. How old is your little man? He five. Oh, okay, okay.

How has fatherhood changed you? Because you young, Polo. So you was a young pops. Yeah. It changed me for the better, for sure. It be teaching me patience. 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 in life for real. I want to stay on the turning back record because you talk about your brother, and you said, I miss my broski through it all. You was there for me. How is his absence affecting you on a day-to-day basis? And just what he's going through because he was charged with murder you on a day-to-day basis and and just what he's going through because he's he was charged with murder right yeah i wasn't even talking talking

about my um my blood brother i was talking about my homie um b money who passed away in 2021 oh wow okay and um but definitely my my little brother you know we tight. We was close. So I speak to him. I be missing him a lot, though. That's like, that was my dog. I mean, that is my dog. Do you feel like that, I don't want to say that's your fault, but like the rapper lifestyle led him maybe getting jammed up like that? I definitely wouldn't say that.

No, you can't really call it, to be honest. To be totally honest um and letter 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 but i feel like you know you did have your kid once you you got money you up so i don't like what is the fear that you can take care of yourselves, you can take care of your family? I just know how important it was to me, like for my father to be there for me. Like. Definitely just being there for my son, an important thing for me, because I know like how much it counts to put that time in my pops was there for me for everything every little point in my life making sure we did our homework something as 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 yeah so it was important for you to give your dad his flowers while he's still here? For sure. And that's him on the record, too? Yeah. That's him? Yeah. That's cool.

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We're similar to my pops. We're almost like the same person. I see that in them. I think I do. What's your relationship now with your mother, Station Mack? Because she was your manager. She's not no more, right? No, she's not my manager no more.

You know, that's my mama. I always love my mama. You just probably ain't in the best space right now on communicating terms, but that's my OG. I'm always loving her. Damn, how did you find your moms? How did that conversation go? That had to be a tough one.

It was just a mutual thing, you know? It wasn't really nothing to it. This ain't new. Michael and Joe, Janet and Joe. Still got to be a hard conversation because that's moms. Yes. She go hard for you though. She do.

Hard on. Y'all still communicate now? Not often, no. But 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 on our relationship that it get back to where it was. When you see family public issues

spill over to social media, like everybody saw the situation between your mom and your sister, do you intervene or do you let them work that out? For sure, I'm always intervening. It's like I don't wanna see no shit like that. So I'm always trying to get in between and before it go too far. That gotta be a rough one.

What you mean go too far? They was fighting and shooting at it. This is Chicago. This is Chicago. I might have to start adding Chicago with Florida. He said before it go too far. It was too far. They was fighting and shooting, Polo.

See, that's normal to Chicago people. Oh, no, man. That is definitely normal to Chicago people. That was crazy. Is it even something that can be worked out, you think? Yeah, for sure. We family. I mean, I feel like Cuss Who I Am, it's just being broadcasted more.

And, like, everybody going to talk about it. But everybody's family go through shit like that. That's shit I'm accustomed to. I'm like, you know. Minus the shooting. No, that's normal to him and how do you intervene because you can't pick a side it's like you almost gotta just try to put

them both in the room and be like let's have this conversation yeah that's definitely the angle to take cause my sister a pretty headstrong person she her mother child you know so you definitely gotta be there have you tried? So you definitely got to be there. Have you tried that yet?

Have you tried to have them work it out on the phone first, of course, because you don't want them in the room yet, but to try to get their feelings out and squash it? Because they mom and daughter. It's something that I want to get around to, but I'm definitely letting them breathe a little bit more right now. I just like the energy that y'all brought. I always liked the cap a lot.

I liked watching y'all as a family unit. You know what I'm saying? I just thought that was dope. Mom helped managing the rapper son. I just thought that was dope. You mentioned you grew antisocial and you said it's y'all's fault. Who is y'all?

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 standoffish than I was before. 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 yeah that's the way you look at but um i want to talk about your creative process within this project. Can you describe, because you said this is the longest, you know, that it took for you to put this together. What was it like? Did you create on beat? You know, was it more like poems?

Because it is Hood Poet. Like, what was that? I was definitely, I was locked in with a producer. I was locked in with Southside from 808 Mafia. Fire. And we had locked in for like two months. And we made like a large bulk of the album in them two months. Like probably like, let's say, eight or nine of the 18 songs that's on there.

So we was just building that chemistry and really went from there. Who else was on the project besides 808? He got a team of producers. Oh, fire. Smat is one of his producers that I work real closely with. And ATL Jacob on there. I got Oz from Chicago. He on there.

Who am I missing? I don't want to make nobody mad. I got a lot of producers on there though check the credits check the credits who did we a shoot

that was that was Southside I'm sure that's not how you pronounce it I'm sure we a shoot I'm sure that's not it

but that is how it's spelled we a shoot I'm sure I don't know what accent that was cause they a shoot it's not mad Jamaica I don't know what

accent that was we a shoot they're. I don't know what accent that was. We a shoot. They're like, I don't know what that was. I put, like, that's how I talk.

I ain't want to put will. Like, I think that would've sounded weird or it would've been a weird title. That's in the hook.

We got the guns, we'll shoot. No, I ain't worried about what he'll do. Are you ever nervous about that, seeing what's going on with Young Thug?

Put stuff like that around? Like, damn, I wonder if they could ever use this against me at any time. I'm not worried because I'm not doing nothing. Okay. I'm not worried about Thug. Well, you did get arrested back in April, Polo. There was a loaded firearm in a hotel room. I don't know if it was yours, but.

All right. Got you. Okay. Okay. Okay. Anti-social. You want to tell? See, here's the thing

coming from the street. You are a legitimate businessman now. Mm-hmm. So if it's not yours, I feel like it's okay to say it's not mine. You may not have to say

whose it is, but it ain't mine. Apology, your counselor would say don't say anything until the court dates. Did you see the discussion that Vlad TV was having? Where 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? About me?

Yeah. Like I said, I think they shouldn't had a concern at all cuz I'm not doing I go to I go home after I come from the studio and I don't really ain't nothing too much going on my life I'm just you know I'm just a rapper mm-hmm I feel like, you know, brothers who survived the streets of Chicago, they're literally like actual soldiers just because of everything that they've experienced, the trauma, 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 of your past and things you might still be dealing with now? I think, because I deal, happy because of all the traumas of your past and and things you might still be dealing with now i think because i i i deal i feel like i cope with it with that stuff pretty well because like it's it like like how we were saying it do it is something that become regular like i don't really i don't really be too throwed off by like death or nothing no more. So I be really able to accept a lot of that stuff now. But I do have those moments of survivor's remorse or just like my traumas catching up to me sometimes.

But I feel like all in all, I cope with it well. I mean, I got a vice that I didn't really touch on is music though. Like I'm always had that in my pocket to be able to deal with my problems. Are you accepting of it or just numb to it? That's the difference, right? Like learning to accept something and just being numb to it. Like a little bit of both.

A little bit of both. You said music is one of your vices. What are some of the things you listen to to cope? Like artists or even decade i like all type of music i'm always on youtube i like r&b music or just like i wouldn't even consider it arm because like what what category like sexy drill fall under that's like rap and r&b what the hell is sexy drill it's r&b but drill because i like that kaitlani song yeah yeah yeah yeah that was great i'm killing the no kalani the name of the song

i'm saying but they call it sexy drill why because you're killing no not killing her literally no music on drill beats oh gotta talk to un to Unc sometimes. That's sexy. That's sexy to women. It's called sexy drill. We didn't name it. Men named it. So Nyla, if you was with a man, and y'all was setting the mood. No, do not put that on.

What are we even doing? Polo, are you out here setting the mood to sexy drill? No, not enough. I really don't really like that term, like that, but I just rock with it. You like the sound. Yeah, I like the sound. Now, Vlad also, you FaceTimed him.

You said you wanted to meet up with him face-to-face. Where did all that start from? What is the issue? Because you called him the feds. Vlad, man, it was really a situation where I came across him and act having a sit down and my name came up and Vlad had an issue with me making a tweet responding to a tweet that somebody made about him being the police this before i ever seen the interview about him being the police and i and i said some along the

lines like i agree you know and then we end up seeing each other in the bank he chopped it up with me i really left it alone i ain't never say nothing about him since but like the way he was talking in the interview with act is 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 so that's really where my issue came from and i try 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 50. You should have known that before he was speaking on me, though. Have y'all had an actual meeting? No, he don't. They ran into each other at the bank. Yeah, yeah. I ran into him at the bank. So you pulled up on him or did he say, hey, I'm Vlad, or did you know it was him as soon as you see him nobody know i was in the line at the bank he this like during covid time he got his mask on but i'm like you know i look

back at him and i smile 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 why he felt the way. You also said in the song, you can't relapse off these drugs, R.I.P. to juice. You really took your last perk with juice? Because you said that in the red. You said, I popped my last one with you.

Yeah, yeah. I haven't did that since really how long ago was that like five years ago okay okay you remember that last experience outside of just the drugs yeah i remember my last time just kicking it with juice uh period i he used to stay 15 minutes away from me so i pulled up on i used to pull up on him a lot of time he hit me like yo bro just pull up on me today we don't we didn't record music a lot of those times I just we were just kicking it together so that was one of those days what did you see me into the city a lot juice man he like no he a

rock star like he different he really separated himself from the rest of the pack feel like he definitely one of a kind. A lot of people appreciate him. And it's like a dope thing. People coming from a lot of different upbringings that are able to support or rock with Juice. Because some of his music, you would hear it and you wouldn't naturally think people in the hood would play this. But people, everybody rock with Juice, bro. Now, you also got the September 18th reference on the album.

Is that related to your late friend who passed away in Chicago? Yeah, that's one of my other homies, though. My homie, his name was T. Gucci. He passed away. He passed away. I was 15. He was 16. Yeah, he got killed, right? Yeah, name was T. Gucci. He passed away. He passed away. I was 15. He was 16. Yeah, got killed, right?

Yeah, he got killed. Yeah. Damn, how much deafening have you experienced? Do you even know what grief feels like? I know what grief feels like. I dealt with deaf closely a lot since I was a little kid. My first encounter with death for real or a murder. My uncle died in a shootout. I was nine years old.

That was my first real experience dealing with that. Ever since then, that's what I've been going through. So you don't feel pain anymore. It just feels natural now. I mean, I definitely feel pain anymore it's just it feels natural now i mean i definitely feel pain still i'm a human but i just don't really read too much into it because i know you know people live in certain lives this is what come with it so what adjustments do you not not even what adjustments what do you feel your duty is to

your community is it to make records like we just shoot, or is it to say, you know what, I got to say something to help the next generation be better? I definitely, in my music, I definitely dabble between the two. But if you know Polo G as an artist, most of the time I'm speaking on the problems or telling you how this messed up or that I could connect with you on a level I've been through something too I feel like my

main priority though and my community specifically is just getting ahold of the kids you know like everybody who been in the streets or half they own path and they adults like it's hard to patch them relationships up like us you know people pushing peace now and trying to patch them but like everybody ain't gonna have that same mindset it's the best thing to do is go get get a hold of the youth before they get too deep into some type of issue once once once body start dropping it's hard to just go back and yeah okay we good now yeah yeah I get it I totally get it.

Let's get into a joint off the album. Let's play Hood Poet. That's the one you want to play? What's the single? We a shoot. Oh, Lord. Oh, Lord. Oh, Lord.

All right, well, let's get it on. We a shoot. Say it with the accent. I said we a shoot. With the accent, Lord. All right, well, let's get it on. We're a shoot. Polo G. Say it with the accent. I said we're a shoot. With the accent, Char. We're a shoot. They just make it Jamaican.

They just make it Jamaican. We're a shoot. It's The Breakfast Club. We appreciate you for joining us, brother. I appreciate y'all having me. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that ass up.

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