One person I respect a lot is Ralowe.
He own his hood where he from.
Its like, I got plans to do the same thing.
He gave me hope.
Like I could really do it.
I actually ended up really looking into the whole thing.
I Google how much my hood worth.
The little project buildings, Marshall Field Gardens, it said it was estimated at three million.
Yeah, I'll save up for that, and try to buy that.
I came up with the “Finer Things” record while I was incarcerated.
I was in Cook County.
I was just reflecting on what I go through.
And, really relating to everybody else going through the same thing as me.
Being from Chicago, ya feel me, and the streets.
It was just something that came to me.
In the middle, while I was in my cell, and I just kept on going with it.
The more I was catching the lil melody and everything.
When everybody was singing the song and everything it just made me smile.
I'm just thinking like, "Aw yeah, when I get back and this touch the streets, this gone
be a hit."
This lifestyle we living, we gotta accept everything that come with this.
Its a possibility you can die living this lifestyle.
You just gotta be prepared for that.
Coming up in Chicago, it's a lot of could haves or would have beens.
A lot of people got potential, and you'll overlook your own potential being overly into
the streets.
When I was in the county it was like my fifth, sixth time being locked up back to back.
And, even though it was petty stuff, them sit downs really made me think, and I had
to learn.
Yeah, this aint what I want to do cause it could get worse.
In every hood in Chicago, you gone be either respected for being a street nigga.
Like a dope dealer or a killer.
Or you gone be respected for having a talent.
It’s rare you find somebody with a whole lot of talent, ya feel me?
That's respected in that way, so, we just looking up to the people with all the money
or the people who glorify for shooting and stuff
Cabrini Green was the worst project.
Damn near every gang in Chicago, and broken up in buildings.
The people from my block we had our own section of project house, called Marshall Field Gardens.
But the people we was beefing with and into it with.
They stayed in that same area called the Row Houses.
Leah, that's my lil sister.
She act just like me.
She like five years old.
I got a little brother.
He's 13.
I really do treat them like my children.
My mama always saying I walk around the house like I'm somebody daddy.
That street shit, I learned it'll get you two things, dead or in jail.
People glorify this, they just thinking in the now.
They aint thinking long term.
So, that's why I had to change my mind set.
The hurt that I was experiencing from my homies dying, from my personal life.
Everything thing that was going on it was making me go crazy.
In Chicago especially, if you go on a come up in this ear, they gone have everything
to say about you.
You can't pay them no mind, like I’m saying in this song.
I got the name Polo G because I've been wearing that since I was a little kid.
That was always my favorite brand.
I would make my mama go buy that for me.
For, back to school, clothes and everything.
Polo aint really big in Chicago.
That's just a "Me" thing, really.