Polo G is one of the hottest artists in the rap game right now.
But having billboard hits can’t save you from the police.
The rapper was recently arrested after a show in Miami
for allegedly resisting arrest and fighting with a police officer.
Let’s take a look at the career and criminal history of Polo G
up to this point and breakdown what really happened in Miami.
Polo G grew up in the Marshall Field Garden Apartments of North Chicago.
He was the second of four children and has two sisters and a brother.
Polo came from a musical family
and both his mother and his older sister were talented singers.
He started rapping at age 9 and growing up he was inspired by artists like Gucci Mane,
Lil Wayne and Tupac, as well as Chicago artists like G Herbo and Chief Keef.
Early on Polo did his best to stay out of trouble.
But growing up in the wild area of North Chicago, that became harder and harder as he got older.
He grew up with both of his parents
and his mother tried hard to keep him away from the streets
and focused on positive things like basketball and school.
But he grew up just down the street from the Cabrini-Green Homes,
one of the roughest housing projects in all of Chicago.
So, it was only a matter of time before he got sucked into the streets.
In high school, he always got into fights and was kicked out of two different schools.
When he was 15, one of his close friends, T-Gucci was killed, which hit him hard.
In an interview, Polo said that Gucci’s death changed his whole outlook on life
That really like messed up my understanding
I ain't understand like how I'm only 15 my homie only 16 years old
died to gun fire like
it really messed up my understanding
and after that he decided to get serious about his passion for music.
But, being a teenager with no other skills except rapping,
Polo quickly realized that he needed a source of income to pay for the studio time.
This is when he started hustling,
so he could support his dream and take it to the next level.
One night,
he snuck out of his house and went to a studio where he recorded his first few tracks.
He started releasing music under the name Polo G
after his favorite fashion brand and his dead homie Gucci.
After graduating from high school,
he briefly considered going to school for broadcasting.
He planned on going to Lincoln University, then transferring to Clark Atlanta University.
He wanted to attend an HBCU and become a sports broadcaster like Stephen A. Smith.
But his passion for the music was too strong
and he decided to stay in Chicago instead to focus on his rap career.
He started releasing visuals to go along with his music,
which earned him fans outside of his own hood.
But as he started gaining more attention for his music,
he also started getting deeper into the streets.
While he would start achieving his rap dreams,
he would also be in and out of jail for selling drugs and stealing cars.
He wouldn’t catch any serious cases,
but he kept getting arrested back to back as he was trying to blow up with his music.
On January 1st, 2018,
Polo was involved in a car theft and high-speed chase with the police.
He was in a stolen car with some of his friends when the cops tried to pull them over.
They would end up crashing the car and all got arrested.
Around that time, he also started abusing drugs like Xanax and ecstasy
and has said that they were the only things that made him feel alive.
Growing up in a neighborhood full of crime, poverty, and violence
plus struggling to make it as a rapper, all took a toll on him.
So, he turned to drugs to cope with that.
But he also kept dropping music and his numbers just kept going up and up.
He dropped a remix to the Lil Durk and G Herbo song “Neva Cared” in 2018,
which quickly went viral, getting more than 1 million views on YouTube.
This track gained him a fanbase all around Chicago
and rumors started that Polo G was going to be the next rapper to make it out of the city.
But before he could really start to enjoy his success,
he would get locked up again and serve some time in Cook County Jail.
This made him really start re-thinking his decisions,
because while his name was hot in the streets,
he was behind bars, unable to capitalize off the success of his music.
He spent this time writing more music and planning out his career path while locked up.
This is when he started to adopt a more melodic flow
that was different from the drill sound he previously had.
After getting out of jail he would hit the ground running
and record some of the music he had worked on while locked up.
He linked up with his old engineer DJ AYO
who had started making beats while Polo was in jail.
He recorded one of the songs he wrote in jail over one of AYO’s beats
which seemed to flow perfectly.
That track would become Polo’s breakout hit called “Finer Things”.
He dropped the video for the song in August 2018
and it got over 250,000 views in the first week.
Finer Things brought his career to the next level
and he started getting requests for interviews and shows.
But he knew that his career had to be strategic
or else he would end up as another one hit wonder.
He did have the city behind him,
but he also only had dropped a few remixes and singles
and didn’t have any full-length projects
to show his talents or establish him as a serious artist just yet.
For his next single, he linked up with Bronx rapper Lil T-Jay for the track Pop Out.
This was a smart move for Polo to make,
because it exposed his music to a whole new market in New York City.
Lil Tjay was at a similar point in his career
and both artists were able to expose their fans to each other’s music.
The New York drill scene is heavily influenced by Chicago
so it was a natural fit for both artists.
The song blew up and peaked at #11 on the Billboard charts.
This led to offers from almost every major label
and he ended up signing with Columbia Records.
He then released his debut project “Die a Legend” in June 2019,
which featured both of his breakout singles
and proved to the world that he was not just a one or two hit wonder, but a serious artist.
It seemed like Polo was on top of the world and he was on track to take over the rap game.
But some of his old habits would catch up to him and in August of 2019,
he would be sent to the hospital after overdosing on xanax and ecstasy.
Doing drugs was so regular to me its like I damn near need that
to function throughout my day.
He posted a pic to Instagram of himself wearing a hospital bracelet,
hooked up to an IV with the caption “I got a lil too lit last night
& woke up inna Emergency Room almost lost my life…”.
The drug addiction that he formed to deal with the pressures of the streets
had followed him into the music industry and almost took his life.
But Polo got lucky and after that he quit both ecstasy and Xanax cold turkey.
He had also just had his first child in July 2019, which was a boy.
He told the Breakfast Club in a recent interview
that the birth of his son was a big part of the reason why he decided to get sober.
Knowing that I got my son that I gotta slow down off that
and that made me quit ecstasy and xanax all together
He wanted to be a good role model to his child and be a responsible father figure,
which is not easy to do when you’re on hard drugs.
But the hospital visit was just a temporary setback and after being released,
Polo was right back on his grind.
He returned to the music in February 2020 with his track “Go Stupid”
featuring Stunna 4 Vegas and NLE Choppa
produced by Mike Will Made it and Tay Keith.
The song became his second hit on the Billboard charts and peaked at #60 on the US charts.
He followed up on the success of that single with his second studio album,
“The Goat” on May 15th, 2020.
The album was a huge success and peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200,
with 10 songs on the project also entering the Hot 100.
The album featured guest appearances from Juice WRLD, Lil Baby
and BJ the Chicago Kid and sold the equivalent of 99,000 albums in the first week.
That same year he was included on XXL’s freshman class of 2020
and started his own record label called “Only Dreamers Achieve”
through Columbia Records, signing Syracuse based rapper Scorey as his first artist.
The following year he was featured in the 2021
Forbes 30 under 30 list in the music category.
He also released the track GNF (OKOKOK)
and was featured on the soundtrack to the movie Judas and the Black Messiah.
He was also featured on the song “Fashion” featuring Pop Smoke,
which was included on the soundtrack for the film Boogie
and collaborated with Lil Tjay and Fivio Foreign for the song “Headshot”.
The way that Polo was able to move seamlessly from the Chicago to Brooklyn drill sound
without losing what made his music unique was part of what shot him to the top.
In 2020, he released a snippet of a song with producer and social media influencer
Einer Bankz that quickly went viral on TikTok and other platforms.
This track would later become the song, “Rapstar”
and was officially released to streaming platforms in April 2021.
The track quickly shot up to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
and became Polo’s most successful release to date.
He followed up with the song “Gang Gang” featuring Lil Wayne the next month.
Both singles were promotions for his third studio album, Hall of Fame,
which was released in June and debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 200
- his first number one album.
Everything was coming together for Polo G and he was taking over the rap game,
with every track and project doing bigger numbers than the last.
But when you blow up that quickly, there’s bound to be some trouble along the way.
Even though Polo G had changed his ways and tried his best to stay away from the streets,
that didn’t save him from police harassment.
On June 12th, 2021,
Polo G was pulled over and arrested
after leaving a release party for his Hall of Fame album in Miami.
Rapper arrested, a night in Miami landing Polo G a night behind bars
after a confrontation with police
The vehicle the rapper was in, got pulled over at the intersection of Biscayne BLVD
and SE 1st St just before 1 am.
Authorities claim that the traffic stop was due to the car’s tinted windows.
Police allegedly asked the driver to roll down the windows and he refused.
A passenger inside the vehicle also allegedly told police
that they weren’t willing to lower the windows because the car was bulletproof.
After that, the rest of the passengers got out of the car willingly,
except Polo, who resisted.
The cops actually tried to pull the rapper out of the car, but he wasn’t going quietly,
throwing punches and allegedly hitting an officer with his elbow.
According to authorities, he told a cop “I will kill you;
I swear I’ll use these fists to beat the **** out of you and knock your ass out.”
The officer who ripped Polo out of the car claimed to have suffered multiple injuries,
including cuts and bruises on his forehead, chin and cheek.
After getting the rapper out of the vehicle, they also found two guns in a black bag.
Florida has pretty chill gun laws and Polo isn’t a convicted felon,
so he is permitted to carry a firearm for protection.
But he was arrested for resisting arrest, battery on a police officer, criminal mischief
and threatening a public servant.
He was brought to the Turner Guilford Correctional Center in Miami
and released later the same day on a $19,500 bond.
His 16-year-old brother was also taken into custody but later released.
The Miami police department announced that
they were launching an investigation into the arrest
to ensure that proper procedures were followed.
Polo G’s mom Stacie Mac, who was also acting as his manager,
went on social media to let everyone know that her son was unfairly targeted
and racially profiled.
She claimed that he was not the one responsible for the tint on the vehicle’s windows
as he was not the driver, but a passenger in a professionally licensed vehicle
and he was moving smart, just like he is supposed to be.
And they stopped them because they were driving while black.
Let's keep in mind that they were driving in a licensed vehicle
with ******* security and a driver, ok?
He wasn't even the person driving,
do you know how scary that it?
Fans on social media also started to question
why Polo and his whole family were arrested and detained for minor charges
that wouldn’t have even happened if he hadn’t been pulled over in the first place.
After being released from jail, Polo took to twitter to address the incident himself,
claiming that “1 of the officers told us they was on us since we got off our jet…”
and “they playin’ foul in Miami & dat **** been like that for a minute”.
Polo isn’t the only rapper to recently get arrested in Miami.
Over Memorial Day weekend
both Pooh Shiesty and Da Baby were arrested in connection with two unrelated shootings.
Da Baby was later released without any charges being filed against him,
but his artist Wisdom is being charged with attempted murder.
Pooh Shiesty is still fighting his case
for allegedly shooting a security guard during a club performance.
New at 6
Lontrell Williams also known as rapper Pooh Sheisty will remain in jail for now.
Williams was arrested for an incident at a south Florida gentleman’s club where
he's accused of shooting a security gaurd.
So, Polo isn’t lying when he says that the Miami police have it out for rappers.
Check out our video On Pooh Shiesty Robbed
Then Shoots Security Guard for more info on this case.
It doesn’t seem like Polo is likely to face any consequences for this arrest,
other than maybe a slap on the wrist.
Lawyer money is not a problem for him
and at this point it definitely seems like he was clearly targeted.
Hopefully Polo G can use this incident to make some dope music
and turn a negative into a positive.
He’s already overcome so much and made it so far,
that a minor arrest like this can’t stop him now.
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