{"id":1220,"date":"2020-05-20T09:16:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/authoritydaily.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2020-07-03T10:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T17:07:47","slug":"polo-g-becomes-the-goat-with-latest-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authoritydaily.com\/polo-g-becomes-the-goat-with-latest-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Polo G Becomes &#8220;The Goat&#8221; with Latest Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The native Chicagoan talks about honing his emotive brand of storytelling, popping pills to escape trauma, and being a voice for his hometown\u2019s youth in this Rising interview.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn4.pitchfork.com\/longform\/917\/pologheader1440.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload\" title=\"\">Photos by Amy Lombard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 16, 2018, after facing a string of arrests for selling weed and stealing cars, Taurus Bartlett left Cook County Jail for what he promised himself would be the last time. At that point, he had been rapping for a couple of years as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/polo-g\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polo G<\/a>, making hard-nosed tracks that were true to the drill music he fell in love with as a kid. But after stepping out of prison that spring, he decided drill\u2019s deadpan delivery wasn\u2019t properly capturing the emotion of his traumatic upbringing. In an effort to serve as a vessel for Chicago kids like him, whose stories are never heard, he adopted a wounded, melodic delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last August, he released a video for a song called \u201cFiner Things.\u201d The visual alternates between everyday shots of Polo G on a city block among friends and dreamlike scenes of the rapper on an open beach surrounded by family. \u201cYeah, my friends died too, I know that feeling,\u201d he attests on the song, \u201cI\u2019m poppin\u2019 ecstasy to help me with the healin\u2019.\u201d Suddenly, his painful storytelling became more profound, as the production on his tracks started to incorporate soft pianos that could fit on the&nbsp;<em>Titanic<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack. \u201cFiner Things\u201d went on to collect more than 50 million views on YouTube alone. \u201cI had to figure out what style was best to express myself,\u201d he tells me on a recent humid morning in New York. \u201cAnd this was it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/65FcjY-2iw8?enablejsapi=1\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 20-year-old now finds himself signed to a major label and rubbing shoulders with the likes of Ariana Grande and Halsey on the&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;charts with his Top 40 hit, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g-uW3I_AtDE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pop Out<\/a>.\u201d His popularity has become centralized on YouTube, where pain-stricken rap crooners like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/nba-youngboy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YoungBoy Never Broke Again<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/31127-kevin-gates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Gates<\/a>&nbsp;have found a home in recent years, and the comment sections on his videos reveal an endless scroll of prayer hands and heart emojis. Last week, he released his debut album,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/polo-g-die-a-legend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Die a Legend<\/a><\/em>, which chronicles his growth and the mental struggles he continues to face with startling detail. \u201cThis shit deeper than the surface,\u201d he raps on the album, over a mournful piano. \u201cToo wrecked to open up, just put my pain up in these verses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he makes his way through Chelsea Piers, on Manhattan\u2019s West Side, Polo G has no crew or security, just his older sister, who is also his tour manager. I have to lean in when he speaks to make sure I hear every word of his short, direct sentences. The sparkling New York City scenery is unimpressive to him, and his face remains statue-like when we\u2019re suddenly trapped by a horde of elementary school kids on a class trip. \u201cI\u2019m an old soul,\u201d he tells me. \u201cWhen I was a kid all the kids would be playing and I would be sitting on the steps with the teachers just watching.\u201d To pass time he watches a rough cut of a new music video on his phone and scrolls through YouTube. After a long walk on the pier we make our way over to a shady bench, where he looks out at the Hudson River and says, \u201cThat water dirty as hell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.pitchfork.com\/longform\/917\/pologinline1790.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Born on the North Side of Chicago, Polo G was raised in the Marshall Field Garden Apartments housing project with his parents and three siblings. In his youth, he would often have little to no food in the fridge and hardly any clothes in the closet. \u201cMy mother and father was young, and they were really learning as they went,\u201d he says, staring off into the dark waves. \u201cWe didn\u2019t really have no guidance.\u201d He cherished school, finding it a brief distraction from the reality of his home life. \u201cRaising my hand quick made me feel better than anything else,\u201d he says. \u201cI knew when I left school, my stomach would probably hurt from having nothing to eat, and I would be going back to those same circumstances that were breaking me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2011, when Polo G was 12, the city of Chicago tore down the last of the Cabrini-Green Homes, a project close to where he grew up and where much of his extended family was raised. Cabrini-Green was known for its dilapidated conditions and crime, but for generations of residents it was also a place of community. The demolition was part of an ongoing effort to redesign Chicago\u2019s North Side, and it resulted in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=svPDOiv4UoI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">displacement of families<\/a>. \u201cThe North Side is set up now like one second you\u2019re downtown, next in a good neighborhood, then in the hood,\u201d says Polo G. \u201cBut they never cared about us, they was trying to lower their crime rate\u2014they didn\u2019t care about a solution, just how to get rid of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise calm and unbothered, Polo G stutters angrily when he speaks about the gentrification of his neighborhood. In his music, it\u2019s clear how much Chicago means to him, and he references the city constantly. His love for his hometown is no front: Sitting at the pier, he wears a thick green hoodie made by a Chicago designer, and as a kid he only listened to local rappers like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/33262-lil-herb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">G Herbo<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/30216-lil-durk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Durk<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/youngpappy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Young Pappy<\/a>. \u201cWhen G Herbo first came that\u2019s when the real Chicago music started,\u201d he says. \u201cHe told in-depth stories and showed people what Chicago really was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GIDTSzFSexM?enablejsapi=1\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Polo G recently moved his family to L.A. he\u2019s set on making sure that his first child, who\u2019s due in the coming weeks, is aware of his Chicago roots. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be a California kid, and I got no problems with that, but I\u2019ll never take my son\u2019s family or culture away from him,\u201d he tells me, making eye contact for a brief, rare moment before looking back down at his Dolce & Gabbana sneakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the specificity and harshness of Polo G\u2019s raps, his music\u2019s mix of sorrow and ambition feels universal. \u201cEven if you don\u2019t come from the streets you can relate,\u201d he says. \u201cWe all share this emotion.\u201d His best song yet, \u201cDeep Wounds,\u201d details his never ending inner conflict. On it, his success is layered with guilt about abandoning his hometown, and the song is fleshed out with unsettling, autobiographical lines like, \u201cMy friends got killed on the same block where we used to play.\u201d \u201cDeep Wounds\u201d speaks to the oftentimes hopeless mentality of Chicago\u2019s youth, the feeling that everything is designed to see you fail. \u201cMusic is so important,\u201d he says, looking into the distance once again. \u201cBecause in Chicago it\u2019s up to us to tell the stories nobody else will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pitchfork.com\/longform\/917\/pologinline3790.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pitchfork: Has the North Side of Chicago changed a lot since you were a kid?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polo G: A lot did change when they tore down the projects. It had a lasting effect on me, because most of my family lived there when I was a kid. It\u2019s all I knew. It\u2019s crazy they can just tear families and neighborhoods apart, and nobody cares. People was put in places they was unfamiliar with, and that\u2019s dangerous. Imagine if you was somewhere all your life then out of the blue your family has to move to some place they know nothing about just so they could put new people where you used to live. It\u2019s like you ain\u2019t good enough to live in your own neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did you have any other plans for your future before your music started to take off?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was enrolled in school\u2014I was accepted to Lincoln University, an HBCU. I was going to go there for a year then transfer to Clark Atlanta University. I always wanted to go to an HBCU, I just love my culture so much. That was my plan. I wanted to be a sports broadcaster like Stephen A. Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why didn\u2019t you go?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had too much love and appreciation for rapping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did the fact that you were in and out of jail make you appreciate rapping even more?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, there was a whole year where I couldn\u2019t stay out of jail. But I just knew I could never go back to that place, because at the time, I was doing worse than the things I was getting caught for. I took it as God giving me chances and showing me that it\u2019s time I make something of myself, or this is going to be the rest of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1rTY2JhYFtQ?enablejsapi=1\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Your raps can be extremely personal, and you\u2019re not afraid to admit things that a lot of other artists might not. Like on \u201cDeep Wounds,\u201d you say, \u201cI swear I pop so many pills, shit got me losin\u2019 weight.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was really losing weight. I\u2019ve gone through some bad times with the pills. In Chicago, what\u2019s messing up the youth right now is the ecstasy pills. Almost everybody in the city pop pills\u2014kids, older people\u2014and they look at you like you crazy if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When did you begin to realize it was messing with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I started I didn\u2019t see no reason to stop. But then the effects started kicking in, and I seen myself changing. When I turned 20 I started to catch on that I was losing my temper, and my memory was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why do you think it\u2019s such an epidemic in Chicago?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a coping mechanism, and that\u2019s their escape. We desensitized to murders and shootings; if we hear shooting we don\u2019t even move, it\u2019s the norm. I\u2019ve seen at least six or seven altercations that\u2019s left someone bleeding out. And there\u2019s nobody in the neighborhood checking on these kids. After a kid in our school dies at 13, no therapists are there. We just deal with it ourselves. Nobody ever comes to check on these kids, and without that it\u2019s just a never ending cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are you still feeling the after effects of ecstasy? Do you still use?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a lasting effect. Even in L.A. I still get depressed and feel bipolar. I\u2019m stressed out, angry, for no reason. I had to stop that though, especially with my kid about to be home. I can\u2019t influence him like that. I\u2019m definitely stopping. I have to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are you nervous about the birth of your son?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, I just can\u2019t wait for him to get here. It\u2019s a lot of staying home and preparing, but I\u2019m cool with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Goat Album<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Favorite songs from his latest album<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beautiful Pain (Losin My Mind)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Polo G - Beautiful Pain (Losin My Mind) (Official Audio)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YFTkD1Baixg?feature=oembed&showinfo=0&rel=0&modestbranding=1&iv_load_policy=3&playsinline=1&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Polo G\u2019s voice pairs perfectly with the guitar backed track. \u201cBeautiful Pain\u201d&nbsp; is a love ballad about missing his significant other and wanting her back after cheating. Polo G expresses the way he feels by rapping \u201cHope I feel your same pain when that bitch Karma come and get me.\u201d Polo let the fame get to him, and now he feels guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Be Something<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Polo G - Be Something (Official Audio) ft. 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