he's too good to be relegated to the rolling rap thread, im sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkrgb7qIko0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEEoaKwwxbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPh51t7KHLw
― fauci wally (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 April 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
album owned
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Monday, 13 April 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
“dyin breed” all day every day
― brimstead, Monday, 13 April 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
he's got incredible melodic instincts, reminds me less of durk and more of prime wiz khalifa. but ofc polo actually combines this supernatural knack for melody with emotional narratives, strong attention to detail, and surprisingly few references to wake-n-bakes.
― fauci wally (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 April 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
stealing the show from mozzy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOy1bXdtcgs
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 10:36 (four years ago) link
"Bad Path" is one of my favorite songs of his, should have been on the albumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsB6mJ2BWGA
fav songs on the album are "effortless" "kings nightmare" and "deep wounds"
the wiz call from a melodic pov is pretty smart, very simple plainspoken melodic rap style on hooks
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
i have a soft spot for the music box beat from 'through the storm' and 'pop out' was a deserved smash, but those are def good highlight picks.
my favorite verse of his might be from this, love the way he keeps the same rhyme scheme for the whole verse. unflashy, but still technically impressive:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-LimI0J9ZY
― fauci wally (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
idk how I feel about mozzy. norcal represent, but idk. Im probably influenced by Philthy Rich’s diss track. Ok ban me
― brimstead, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
love "deep wounds"
― dyl, Thursday, 16 April 2020 03:27 (four years ago) link
new album coming next week
5/15🖤🐐...click the link for presale🔥 https://t.co/2bpmnvAobs pic.twitter.com/XSf8vfdAfv— Polo.G🐐 (@Polo_Capalot) May 5, 2020
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
anticipating
― dyl, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 06:26 (three years ago) link
In that cell, public defender tried to offer me probationNow I step out on that stage and see a thousand different facesThinkin' 'bout my life, I probably would have died if I ain't make itR.I.P. TimTim, I remember our last conversation
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Friday, 15 May 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Love this album. Maybe just slightly less than Die A Legend but could still listen to it endlessly. Esp. stunned by "I Know."
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
for whatever reason i initially found it disappointing + seldom returned to it in full but somehow several of its tracks continued to grow on me over the next several months as i kept hearing them individually/outside the context of the album. "dnd" may still be my fav but i should prob revisit the whole thing again
― dyl, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
Agreed, same feeling
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:42 (three years ago) link
Billboard Hot 100: #1(new) RAPSTAR, @Polo_Capalot.— chart data (@chartdata) April 19, 2021
― voodoo chili, Monday, 19 April 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
they major-labeled the hell out of this one lol. should still be pretty good, probably
Hall of Fame🏆🖤🙇🏾Lmk Which Track u most Excited To hear????https://t.co/KiFfnZZK2L pic.twitter.com/JvH9VWjMUU— Polo.G🐐 (@Polo_Capalot) June 3, 2021
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 3 June 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
is 'hall of fame' a&r'd to death? kinda. do i still like it? yes, yes i do.
greeat song herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgS8B3pps6U
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
I’d say Vice versa (not a&r’d enough) but yea
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
a song with polo g and lil durk? great! a song with polo g, lil durk, and the kid laroi? well...
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
I mean it’s prolly just cuz laroi is signed to lil bibby
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
true, but they could've slapped him on "broken guitars," which fits his style a bit better
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
it's overlong and the guests are predictable, they kinda gave it the default 'big 2021 rap album' treatment. the best songs are the ones that hew close to his roots (like "gnf" and the herbo song above), but since polo is so talented, the major label-iest moves actually work–i really dig the dababy-featuring radio play, for example.
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 June 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
My favorite mainstream hip-hop album since Lil Uzi Vert's
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 June 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
it's a pretty good album. i like most of the tracks, honestly. like, yeah, the a&r fingerprints are there in all the catchy guitar loops and strategically (tho sometimes bafflingly, as noted above) configured guest contributions, but hardly anything on it feels outside of his wheelhouse and he pulls it off well. kinda like how the massive, seemingly instant success he semi-stumbled upon with "rapstar" initially baffled* b/c it wasn't rly that different from many songs he had done previously
re: that song, i don't think it will ever go down as among my favorite of his tracks but it is definitely a good song and it's only grown on me. sort of a random landmark in his career but still worthy of being his first smash
opening and closing tracks both great. as far as the guitar-loop sonics go, i'm glad for "broken guitars" switching things up a bit on that front. nonetheless i do count some of the more predictably produced tracks among my faves, including guest-free ones like "black hearted" and "so real". i'm sure the sort of vulnerability he exhibits on the latter will register to some ears as corny but for me it can be subtly uplifting
the one song that completely pulled me out of the experience was "for the love of new york," the one with nicki minaj -- sounded so out of place that at first i thought the album must have ended and either i'd crossed into bonus tracks or something else altogether had started playing. but nope! i can't help but wonder if it was even originally intended for this album.
anyway yeah. good album!
(* at least it baffled ppl like me who know/like his music but aren't v plugged into the social media stuff that is such a big part of how younger folks experience pop music now, and thus had no idea about the pent-up hype the song had built until it came out)
― dyl, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 06:53 (two years ago) link
I like him and want to see him win but I thought this was easily the weakest of his three projects
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 07:44 (two years ago) link
i love polo and i love burna boy, but i can’t help but feel like they flatten each other’s best attributes in their new collab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0FE2Hjn30E
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 October 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link