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

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning.
• 0:05
  Speaker 3: Everybody's j Envy Jess hilarious, charlamage the guy. We are
• 0:09
  Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club. We got our niece nolive with us today.
• 0:12
  Speaker 3: We got a special guest in the building, Polo G. Welcomes.
• 0:16
  Speaker 3: How are you feeling, brother?
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: All good, new album dropping hood poet back outside for sure. Yeah,
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: we haven't seen you in a while.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Its been a minute.
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: It's been a minute. What took so long?
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 4: I went through a lot of things, you know, with
• 0:33
  Speaker 4: my music and just personally kept on derailing me. But
• 0:40
  Speaker 4: like you know, I'm actually like glad I went through
• 0:43
  Speaker 4: it a thing because I feel like I wouldn't have
• 0:44
  Speaker 4: got the product that I ended up with, and I
• 0:47
  Speaker 4: feel like it's the best one that I could have had,
• 0:50
  Speaker 4: and any yet that I would have dropped.
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: What we're going through. Was it like a writer's block
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: or you didn't know what sound you wanted or label.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: All Leo? You know.
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: What about personally? He said, personally, was it gave you
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: the person?
• 1:10
  Speaker 5: Get into the new music?
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: Girl over here, get to the person.
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: When he said something, I really.
• 1:18
  Speaker 5: At first they told me like, oh, Polo G flipped
• 1:20
  Speaker 5: the Michael Jackson record, and I'm like, not, Mike, like,
• 1:23
  Speaker 5: how dare you? But then I actually really liked the record.
• 1:25
  Speaker 5: Were you not comfortable because it was a more like
• 1:29
  Speaker 5: mainstream poppy type record. I mean, it's still a rap.
• 1:32
  Speaker 5: But did you feel like you're going different from like
• 1:35
  Speaker 5: your core music or.
• 1:38
  Speaker 4: You're saying like with my new album, no, I feel
• 1:40
  Speaker 4: like I was definitely getting back to my core because,
• 1:43
  Speaker 4: like my project that I dropped beforehand, I was trying
• 1:46
  Speaker 4: to be more a little more mainstream versatile. But like
• 1:50
  Speaker 4: on this album, That's why I tiedled the hood poet
• 1:52
  Speaker 4: because I connected back with my rules.
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: What's the what's a hood poet to you?
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  Speaker 1: It's like a spokesperson for the naghbor.
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: You know, person's really speaking on telling everybody's story at once,
• 2:05
  Speaker 4: not just you know.
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  Speaker 6: How can you still relate to the hood, polo? I
• 2:09
  Speaker 6: mean you you live in large in l A. We
• 2:11
  Speaker 6: see you walking down Rodale Drive. You got a big
• 2:14
  Speaker 6: stack of money. Feel free to pass Uncle hunting if
• 2:16
  Speaker 6: you want to. But I'm I'm just watching, don't you
• 2:23
  Speaker 6: got it? But how can you still relate.
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: To the hood?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, as where I come from, I'm always naturally
• 2:30
  Speaker 4: relate to them. You know, I still got close feelings
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: with like my family, friends, everybody that's still come from that.
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm really you know, I really come from
• 2:39
  Speaker 4: it for real, So I'm always Yeah.
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: You feel a bit of a survivor's remorse.
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: I feel like I do at times though, like overdoing
• 2:48
  Speaker 4: for people, feeling like damn, I know I was in
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: that situation before.
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: You to get caught up in the in the feeling
• 2:55
  Speaker 3: that you have to go back and help.
• 2:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like that's a good thing though, having
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: that type obligation or feeling obligated.
• 3:03
  Speaker 5: What is the acronym for hood poet uh Stanford?
• 3:07
  Speaker 4: He overcame obstacles during pain or emotional trauma.
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: So have you been exploring that, Like, have you been
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: talking to like a therapist, a counselor just.
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: I tried a few times. Yeah, I do want to
• 3:22
  Speaker 4: like make it more like a regular thing, but I have, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: a few times.
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to find the right person therapists and
• 3:32
  Speaker 5: y'all walk in you you'll be consistent.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I feel like it is.
• 3:36
  Speaker 6: Because I saw a couple of months ago you posted
• 3:38
  Speaker 6: a drugs and liquor helped me cope with pain, but
• 3:41
  Speaker 6: I need better vices.
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: Have you found any better vices?
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 3:46
  Speaker 4: I really laid back off drinking. I ain't been drinking
• 3:49
  Speaker 4: for a little while. I won't say that long. It'll
• 3:52
  Speaker 4: probably been only like a month. But no, I'll be
• 3:55
  Speaker 4: really like working out a lot, I hope from time
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: to time, like I just try to do. I like
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: being by myself. I feel like that's a decent vice
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  Speaker 4: if it is going. But like being by myself helped
• 4:10
  Speaker 4: me think clearly.
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: You ain't got no game.
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: You can't play basketball. I'm decent, can't test the net,
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: so you don't even know do anything.
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: I'm a three point specialist, not not even close. Now.
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame was a number one album.
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  Speaker 6: Did you set any expectations for yourself when you was
• 4:31
  Speaker 6: working on hood Port after having so much success with
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  Speaker 6: Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 4: Definitely, Like first, like creating the album and coming off
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  Speaker 4: of like my album being so big, the one that
• 4:45
  Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame, Like at first that was my
• 4:48
  Speaker 4: main primary goal, but like after all the time, how
• 4:52
  Speaker 4: I went past. My biggest thing was just getting the
• 4:55
  Speaker 4: music out and just making sure it was like the
• 4:57
  Speaker 4: best music that I could put together, you know, and
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: really just trying to put my soul into it. But
• 5:04
  Speaker 4: definitely early on that was probably one of my primary focuses.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's shifted.
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: I read somewhere too.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know this is true, but you said, you know,
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  Speaker 6: only rapping history to have every album go two times platinum.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was like at that time. I don't know,
• 5:21
  Speaker 4: I don't really know what what they meant by, but
• 5:23
  Speaker 4: I did see, Uh, what's the Twitter account. It's one
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  Speaker 4: of my favorite hip hop daily the certifications?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is that true?
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  Speaker 2: If that's true, I just saw it and I was like, man,
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: that's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: The certifications. They checked the numbers and everything on that site.
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  Speaker 3: What I said, They checked the numbers and everything on
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: that site. He said, every album you put out is
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  Speaker 3: going two times platin Yeah.
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: What does that look like? Money wise?
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  Speaker 6: In your Podcastodet saying how they don't make the money
• 5:55
  Speaker 6: off the record.
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  Speaker 1: Sales, I'm just wondering, like, yeah, I mean I can't
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: really relate to the oh.
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: You're getting the money off your records?
• 6:06
  Speaker 3: Would you rather go back to the days where it
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: was more independent? Because I realized this time around the
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: reason I asked, is usually the labels are recalled, but
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: I was getting calls from people outside like Polar want
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: to come to the breakfast club. I'm like whatever, but
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: it was it seemed like it was more of an
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: independent way of doing things opposed to actually going to
• 6:22
  Speaker 3: the label. So is that going back to the roots
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: and going back to where it started from the reason
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: you're doing it that way?
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: I don't give what you asks me.
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: So usually the label books you or the label calls
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: to get Polo G on the radio or whatever it is,
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  Speaker 3: but this time was more of a personal relationship, which
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: was weird. So I was curious to if that's the
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: route that you want to go, more to an independent
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: route where it's going outside of the record label.
• 6:49
  Speaker 4: I'm always like collaborate with my label on ideas or
• 6:54
  Speaker 4: doing anything media wise, but I think it's definitely a
• 6:57
  Speaker 4: good thing to just create a good like team on
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: the inside to do a lot of the same things
• 7:03
  Speaker 4: that the label would do, just so you ain't so.
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  Speaker 3: Dependent on them you feel like the label wasn't doing
• 7:06
  Speaker 3: enough for you.
• 7:08
  Speaker 4: No, I definitely don't think that like they step for me.
• 7:13
  Speaker 4: But like I said, it's really about building your own
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  Speaker 4: personal team for sure.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: What do labels do nowadays? Far as.
• 7:23
  Speaker 4: I feel like it's like a lot of groundwork that
• 7:25
  Speaker 4: they do, the things that you probably may not see,
• 7:28
  Speaker 4: you know, and just staying on point. And I know
• 7:32
  Speaker 4: I talk to my team to my label a lot
• 7:36
  Speaker 4: about like what I should do from an analytics standpoint.
• 7:40
  Speaker 6: I saw a lot of people saying they was wondering
• 7:42
  Speaker 6: why Little TJ isn't featured on the album.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: Man, me and TJ, we just be having a lock in.
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  Speaker 4: Brody just he be gone like probably eighty percent of
• 7:52
  Speaker 4: the year, Like you can never really get a hold,
• 7:55
  Speaker 4: but that's still my boy.
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: We locked in for the y'all be doing records, y'all
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  Speaker 2: be in the studio together.
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, most of the time. That's like the only
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: rapper that I be in the studio with.
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: Like most of the time we I just sent a
• 8:07
  Speaker 4: track back and forth, like a lot of feature records
• 8:10
  Speaker 4: that I have. I never like, I probably had two
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: or three songs with a little Baby before I ever
• 8:15
  Speaker 4: met him in person. So me and TJ, we always
• 8:18
  Speaker 4: lock in. We got that chemistry together. Right after I signed,
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: they put us in the studio together. He had just
• 8:26
  Speaker 4: signed before me. And like we basically like grew up
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: together in the music industry.
• 8:33
  Speaker 6: Now, you know, while Good gave you a Donkey of
• 8:36
  Speaker 6: the day because you were saying that you were one
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  Speaker 6: of the only rappers.
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: With no security, now you got all this June.
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  Speaker 6: And the reason I was so disappointed because I'm like, yo,
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  Speaker 6: Polo has always been one of the smart ones. You
• 8:47
  Speaker 6: walk around all the jury, you got money hanging out
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  Speaker 6: your pocket. Why was you testing the streets in that way?
• 8:52
  Speaker 4: That wasn't like sometimes I feel like because I ain't
• 8:56
  Speaker 4: always all always out there, people don't know like when
• 9:00
  Speaker 4: I'm trolling or just playing around something like that. Onen't
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: no like I'm trying to entice nobody or trying to
• 9:06
  Speaker 4: puff my chest out.
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  Speaker 1: I was just really borshit, like I.
• 9:09
  Speaker 4: Ain't even like, you know, I probably was four hours
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: away by the time I posted that, you know, like,
• 9:17
  Speaker 4: I ain't no goofy like that. I'll just be trolling stuff.
• 9:22
  Speaker 4: And that's something I've been doing since the beginning of
• 9:24
  Speaker 4: my career. Is just like I'll be forgetting that I'm
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: at a like bigger point in my career where people
• 9:31
  Speaker 4: would take down anything, and you know, so I that
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: was definitely a learning exp like something that I had
• 9:38
  Speaker 4: to learn to just be my mind.
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: For with hippod being your comeback project from the break
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  Speaker 5: that you took, what is like the takeaway you want
• 9:49
  Speaker 5: people to get from.
• 9:50
  Speaker 4: This that I really put my all into the project,
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: that I took my time with it, because this the
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: longest it ever took me to drop a project in
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: my career. Like I was on the cycle of dropping
• 10:04
  Speaker 4: an album every nine months in the beginning of my career.
• 10:07
  Speaker 4: So like, with taking so much time, it had to
• 10:11
  Speaker 4: be the best shit that how I could create.
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: Were you nervous doing this album because you said that
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: you wanted to stop your vices, whether it was drinking
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: or drugs, So without using vices doing this or doing that,
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: where you were you thinking that maybe your mind couldn't
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: put out an album you couldn't rap without those vices.
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: With that a fair at all?
• 10:31
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: Sometimes that's that's a thing, you know. Coming early on
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: into my career, like I like pills was my thing
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: a lot, and I made a lot of good.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: Songs off drugs.
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: You would start thinking like, oh, that's the only way
• 10:45
  Speaker 4: I'm a and then like you, it's really just a thing.
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: A fine to yourself. No, I feel like now at
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: this point in my life, I make my best music
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: SOB And.
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: How did you get off those vices? How did you
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: finally went off and say I'm not doing this anymore?
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: Was it a scare, was it family? Was it management?
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: Or was it yourself?
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: It's always myself. It's definitely like.
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: Like like dealing with the like mental problems that come
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: with it, like you know, you know when you drink
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: too much and then it's like you're trying to pour
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: yourself out of that depression, all that darkness, Like going
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: through that and not wanting to be in that here
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: space again is what really made me straight away from.
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: You think you're trying to escape something, because you know,
• 11:31
  Speaker 6: when I listen to a record like you know, barely
• 11:33
  Speaker 6: holding on and you like, you know, definite, definite air
• 11:36
  Speaker 6: that should have leave you with a chilled spine, even
• 11:38
  Speaker 6: though my spirits down, like I'm okay, I feel fine.
• 11:40
  Speaker 6: Shots from that Still nine and from that Hillside, I'm
• 11:43
  Speaker 6: from the trenches where they just murder just to kill time.
• 11:47
  Speaker 6: Like it feels like you feel like you're dealing with
• 11:50
  Speaker 6: some real dark stuff on this albums. You feel like
• 11:52
  Speaker 6: you were doing all that just to try to escape.
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you said for show for shure, I feel like
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: that's it go hand in hand with the the just
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: the rapper lifestyle too.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Why you may.
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: Indulge in certain things, but I definitely feel like it's
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: an escape thing sometimes too.
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because on turning back you say I need some therapy,
• 12:15
  Speaker 6: Like you literally say that, So you're clearly self aware
• 12:18
  Speaker 6: that there's something going on.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, And.
• 12:20
  Speaker 6: Even now having a common even talking to you now,
• 12:22
  Speaker 6: I feel like mentally you might be somewhere somewhere else.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: You got a lot on your.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: Mind always though, that's that's that's, that's just me.
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: Does it make these press runs even more difficult because
• 12:34
  Speaker 6: you know, you got to go out hand promote the album,
• 12:36
  Speaker 6: but then you're dealing with real life issues as well.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: No, not really.
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: Press runs going to be a little difficult to me
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: because I ain't really like a person that like to talk,
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: so we know.
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: Also on the turning back you talk about how you
• 12:52
  Speaker 5: gave your heart to the streets and got nothing in return.
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: Where would you say.
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  Speaker 5: Your heart is now?
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: My heart right now it's with my family, my son.
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: I love my son a whole lot, and that's why
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: I want to like, I ain't. I wouldn't say shift
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: my focus, but like be more attentive in that area.
• 13:14
  Speaker 6: Ole man he five, okay, okay, How fatherhood has changed
• 13:18
  Speaker 6: you because you're young?
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: He was a young pops.
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it changed me for the better, for sure. It'd
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: be teaching me patients. I'm a very impatient person, but
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: dealing with my son helped me, like, like learn to
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: be more patient and just see the beauty and life
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: for real.
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: I want to stay on the turning back record because
• 13:42
  Speaker 6: you talk about your brother and you said I missed
• 13:44
  Speaker 6: my Brosky through it all you was you was dead
• 13:46
  Speaker 6: for me? How is his absence affecting you on a
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: day to day basis? And and just what he's going
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: through because he's he was charged with murder, right.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't even talking talking about my my blood brother.
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: I was talking about my home be Money, who passed
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: away in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay.
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  Speaker 4: And but definitely my my little brother. You know, we
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: was tight, We was close, So I speak to him.
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: I'll be missing him a lot though. That's like that
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: was my dog.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, that is my dog.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like that?
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: I don't want to say that's your fault with like
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: the wrapper lifestyle, letting them him maybe getting jammed up
• 14:24
  Speaker 6: like that.
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: I definitely wouldn't say that. No, you can't really call
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: it to be honest, to be totally honest.
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: And let her letter from my pops. You're talking about
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: how you don't want to let your son down, like
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: that is one of your biggest fears.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: But I feel like, you know, you did have your kid.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: Once you got money, you up, So I don't, like,
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: what is the fear of that. You can take care
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: of yourself, You can take care of your family.
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  Speaker 4: I just know how important it was to me, like
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: for my father to beat up for me, and like
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: definitely just be enough for my son an important thing
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  Speaker 4: for me because I know like how much account to
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: put that time in. My pops was there for me
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: everything every point in my life, making sure we did
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: our homework, somethings simple as hanging your jacket up, playing
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: catch with you in the backyard, Like that's things a
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: kid gonna remember more than me being able to pay
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: for anything for my son.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's important for you to give your dad
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: his flower as well.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 5: That's him on the record.
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  Speaker 3: Too.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: What else did you learn from your pops?
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: Like I really want to know, like how to how
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: to have a father figure keep you from really, you know,
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: succumbing to the screeens of Chicago.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: My pops he a really really wise person.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: He always gonna give you the pros or cons to
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: any situation. Somebody that's real easy to talk to. I
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: feel like he kept me away from or out of
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: trouble a lot of times a lot of time, you know,
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: or just being that voice or reason you know, when you're.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Having a conversations with your son or interactions with your son.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: What do you do that you like? Damn that that
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: was my pop. Pops did this for me.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Like, it's a lot of things I do.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it's similar to my poss We almost
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: like like the same person. Like I see that and damn,
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: then I think I do.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: What's it?
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: What's your relationship now with your with your mother station
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: Mac because she was your manager.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: She's not no more.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: No, she's not my mother no more. You know, that's
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: my my ma. Mom.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Always loved my mama. You just probably ain't in the
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: best space right now on communicating terms.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: But that's that's my I'm always.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: How did you find your moms? How did that conversation?
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: But that had to be a tough one.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: It was just a mutual thing, you know, it wasn't really.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: Michael and Joe, Janet and Joe.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: You gotta be a conversation because that's moms like you
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: go hard for you though you do, like.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Do y'all still communicating now?
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Not often?
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: You know, it's still communication there. It's just not like
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: how it used to be. But I feel like that's
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: just a rough patch in our relationship that to get
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: back to where where it was.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: When you see family public issues spill over the social media,
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: like you know, everybody saw the situation between your mom
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: and your sister.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Do you intervene or do you let them work that up?
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: For sure, I'm always intervening.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: It's like I don't want to see no ship like that,
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: you know, so I'm always trying to get in between.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: And before we go too far.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Too far, it was fighting and shooting Chicago, Chicago. I
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: might have to start at in Chicago with Florida, he said.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: Before it go too far, it was fighting and shooting Polo.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: That's normal to Chicago people.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Nor is it even something that can be worked out?
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: You think?
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure? We family. I mean, I like, I
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: feel like cuss who I am?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: That's it's it's just being broadcasted more and like everybody
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: gonna talk about it. But every everybody family go through
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: go through ship like that shit I'm accustomed to.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I'm like minus to shoot, No, that's normal to him, y'all.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: And how do you intervene because you can't pick a side.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: It's like you almost got to just try to put
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: them both in the room and be like, listen, had
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: this conversation.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's definitely the angle to take. Because my
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: sister a pretty hair strong person.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: She had mother child, you know, so you definitely got
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: to be Have you tried that yet?
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Have you tried to have to work it out on
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: the phone first, of course, because you don't want to
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: be in the room yet, but to try to get
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: their feelings out and squash it because they mom and daughter.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: It's something that I want to get around to. But
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: I'm definitely letting them breathe a little bit more right now.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I just like, I just like the energy to y'all.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Bro, I always like the capital lot I liked watching
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: y'all as a family unit.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: I just thought that was dope. Mom helped managing the
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: rapper Sun. I just thought that was dope. Now, now
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: you mentioned you grew anti social and you said it's
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: all it's y'all's fault.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Who is y'all?
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Like just I ran through a lot of different friends
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: or just like people I was associated with, and it's
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: like I always go through a phase of having to
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: cut off a lot of different people. A lot of
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: people came and went in my life. So I feel
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: like that keep me even more stamped offish than I
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: was before.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: To be fair, you also are evolving as an artist
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: and then you know in personal life and then like
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: public persona too. So some people are just there to
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: get you to your next phase.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah that's the way you look at.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: But I want to talk about your creative process within
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: this project. Can you describe because.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: You said this is the longest you know that it
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: took for you to put this together.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: What was it like? Did you create on beat?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Was it more like poems because it is a hood poet? Like?
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: What was that?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I was?
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Definitely I was locked in with a producer. I was
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: locked in with south Side on ato a Mafia, and
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: we got locked in for like two months and we create.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: We made like a large bulk of the album in
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: them two months, like probably like let's say eight or
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: nine of the eighteen songs that's on the So we
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: was just building that chemistry and really went from there.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Who else was on the project besides eight A eight?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: He got a he got a team of producers, soh uh.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Smat is one of his producers that I work real
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: closely with, and Atl Jacob on there. I got Ohs
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: from Chicago he on there? Who I'm missing? I don't
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: want to make nobody Mad.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Had a lot of producers on that.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Check the credits. Check the credits. Who did we a shoot?
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: That was? That was?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: That's not how you pronounced it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I'm sure we are shoot. I'm sure that's but that
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: is how spelled.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know what.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Because they shoot, I don't know what that was.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: We shoot it like, I don't know what that was.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I put like, that's how I talk.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I didn't want to put will like I think that
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: would have sounded weird or it would have been a
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: weird title.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: That's in the hook, we got the guns, will shoot. No,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I ain't worried about what he'll do.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Are you ever nervous about that? Seeing what's going on
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: with young thug put stuff like that, rep like, damn,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I wonder if they could ever use this against me
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: at any time.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I'm not worried because I'm not doing nothing. I'm not
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: worried about.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Well, you did get arrested back in April. It was
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: a loaded firearm in the hotel room. I don't know
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: if it was yours, but all right, got you, Okay, okay, anti.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: See.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: But here's the thing. For coming from the street, you are.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: You are a legitimate businessman now, so if it's not yours,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: I feel like it's okay to say it's not mine.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not to say who it is, but it ain't mine.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Apology A counselor will say, don't say anything until the courtation.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Did you see the discussion that Black TV was having.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: What he was talking about, he got concerns about you
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: because he feels like you might have one foot in
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: the street. Still, what are your thoughts about people who
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: have those concerns.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: That about me?
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Like I said, I think they shouldn't have that concern
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: at all because I'm not doing I go to I
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: go home after I come from the studio.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: No, I don't really ain't nothing too much going on
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: my life. I'm just you know, I'm just a rapper.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: I feel like the brothers who survived the Streets Chicago,
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: they're literally like actual soldiers just because of everything that
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: they've experienced, the trauma or the PTSD and stuff. So
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: is it hard finding happiness now because you live a
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: great life? But is it hard actually being happy because
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: of all the traumas are your past and any things
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: you might still be dealing with that?
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: I think because I deal I feel like I cope
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: with it with that stuff pretty well because like it's
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: like like how we were saying, it is something that
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: becomes regular, Like I don't really I don't really be
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: too told off by like death or nothing no more
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: like so I be really able to accept a lot
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: of that stuff now. But I do have those moments
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: of survivors remre or just like my trauma's catching up
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: to me sometimes. But I feel like, all in all,
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I cope with it well. I mean I got advice
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: that I didn't really touch on his music though, Like
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: I'm always hire that in my pockets, be able to
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: deal with my problem.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: Are you accepting of it and just numb to it?
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: That's a difference, right, like learning to accept something and
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: just being numb to it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Like a little bit of both, a little bit of both.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: You said music is one of your vices. What are
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: some of the things you listen to to coe like
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: artists or even decades.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: I like all types of music. I'm always on YouTube.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: I like R and B music or just like I
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: wouldn't even consider it arm because like what what category
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: like sexy drill?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: All on? That's like raping?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: What the hell is sexy drills?
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: R and B?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: But drill because I like that Kailani song. Yeah, yeah, I'm.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Saying they call it sexy drill? Why because you're killing
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: pussy literally drill be talked to some times that sexy woman.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: It's called sexy drill.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: We didn't name it. Men named it.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: So not if you was with a man and you're
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: always setting the mood, No, do not put.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: That on.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Setting the mood to sexy drill?
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: No not No.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I really don't really like that term like that, but
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I just rock with it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Blad Also you face timed him, you said you want
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: to face to face, Like what what? Where did all
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: that start from? Like what is this?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Because you called him the FEDS?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Like blid Man. It was really a situation where.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I came across him and having a sit down and
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: my name came up, and blid had an issue with
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: me making a tweet responding to a tweet that somebody
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: made about him being of police, this before I ever
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: seen the interview about him being the police, and I
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: said some shited along the lines like I agree, you know,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: and then we end up seeing each other in the bank.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: He chopped it up with me. I really left it alone.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: I ain't never say nothing about him since, but like
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: the way he was talking in an interview with actors,
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: like it was almost like he was I don't know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: like he still felt the way and he's saying that
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: he that I didn't never respond to him for an interview,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: and it was like he just fake got to going
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: in and I didn't really understand that from a person
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: who had an issue with me speaking on him publicly.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: So that's really where my issue came from. And I
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: trying I'm trying to talk to him like a man.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: It ain't really no more to it. But then he
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: trying to remind me he fifty You should have known
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: that before.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: He was speaking on me, though.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Y'all had an actual meeting.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: No, he don't want Yeah, yeah he I ran into
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: him at the bank, so.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: You pulled up on him, But he said, hey, I'm ladder.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Did you know it was him? As soon as you
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: see him.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: I was in the line at the bank this like
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: during COVID time. He got his mask on, but I'm like,
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: you know, I looked back at him and I smiled,
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: you know, And that's when he was willing to engage
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: in conversation. I guess, you know, And we really it
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: wasn't really nothing. We just chopped it up about like
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: why he felt the way, you.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Know you said.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: You also said in the song, you can't relapse off
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: these drugs, all right, Peter Juice, you really took your
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: last perk with juice? Could you say that in the
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: real You said I popped my last one with you?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I haven't did that since really, how longer?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Was it? Like five years ago?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Okay? Okay, you remember that last experience outside of just
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the drugs?
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember my last time just kicking it with Juice. Period.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: He used to stay fifteen minutes away from me, so
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: I pulled up on I used to pull up on
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: him a.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Lot of time. He had hit me like, bro, just
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: pull up on me today. We don't.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: We didn't record music a lot of those times. I
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: just were just kicking it together. So that was one
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: of those days.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: What did Juice mean to the city?
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: A lot of Juice man, he like no, he a
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: rock star, like he different. He really separated itself from
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: the rest of the pack. I feel like he definitely
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: wanted a kind. A lot of people appreciate him, and
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: and it's like a good, like a dope thing, like
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: people coming from a lot of different upbringings that are
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: able to support or rock with Juice because like some
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: of his music, you would hear it and you wouldn't
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: naturally think people in the hood to play this, but
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: like people, everybody rock with Juice.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Bro.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: Now you also got the you got a September eighteenth
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: reference on the album. Is that related to your your
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: late friend who?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of my other homies though Oie.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: His name was t Gucci. He passed away. He passed away.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: I was fifteen, he was sixteen.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: He had got killed her.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah he got killed.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah damn much that much deafine? Have you experienced? You
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: even know what grief feels like.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I know what grief feel like.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Uh, I went through I went I dealt with death
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: closely a lot, since I was like a lookle kid,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: like I like my first encounter with death for real
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: or like a murder.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: My my uncle died in a shootout. I was like
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: nine years old.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: That was like my first real experience dealing with that
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: and ever since then, that's like what I've been going through.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: So so you don't feel pain anymore. It's just this
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: feels natural now.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely feel pain still. I'm a human, but.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: I just don't really read too much into it because
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: I know, you know, people live in certain lives, this
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: will come with it.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: So what adjustments do you not not even what adjustments?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: What do you feel your duty is to your community?
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: Is it to make records like we a shoot or
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: is it to say, you know what, I got to
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: say something to help the next generation be better?
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: I definitely in my music, I definitely dabble between the two.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: But primary like if you know Polo G as an artist,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: like most of the time I'm speaking on the problems
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: or like telling you how this is messed up, or
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: that I could connect with you on the level I've
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: been through something too. I feel like my main priority though,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: in my community specifically, is just getting a hold of
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: the kids. You know, like everybody who've been in the
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: streets or have their own path and they adults like
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: it's hard to patch them relationships up, Like you know,
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: people pushing peace now and trying to patch them, but
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: like everybody ain't gonna hide that same mindset. It's the
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: best thing to do is go get a hold of
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: the youth before they get too deep into some type
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: of issue.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: Once once bodies start dropping, it's hard to just go
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: back and be like yeah, okay, we're good now.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I get it. I totally get it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Let's get into a joint off the album. Let's play
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Hood Poet.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: That's the one you want to play? What's the one?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: What's the one? What's the single?
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: We all shoot? Lord?
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: All right, let's get it on. We will shoot with
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: the accent, I said, we will shoot with the accent.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Chart we are shoot.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: You make Jamaica. They just make it Jamaica. We will shoot.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Lub. We appreciate you for joining us.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Brother, I appreciate you. It's the Breakfast Lug.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Good morning, wake that ass.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.