The wait is over: Polo G is again with a full size album venture, and this one is known as Hood Poet. An 18-track LP, the album clocks in a runtime of just below one hour and takes its time to construct up sonically. That stated, it’s a construct up for the perfect, and takes the listener throughout completely different feelings and magnificence at its leisurely tempo.
The album opens with the anthemic ‘God’s Favourite’, the place Polo raps about feeling like God’s favorite and pays homage to his foundations. The boldness right here is high notch and is backed by choir-like vocals within the background that helps a excessive pitched hook.
The venture then transitions off into ‘No Recruits’ with a splendid function from G Herbo, bouncing off the power from the primary monitor, solely to guide into ‘Barely Holdin’ On’, which is a extra melodic strategy. With easy entice manufacturing, it options Polo G confessing how he’s carrying burdens and imperfections, and the way he’s barely holding on — with the latter portion serving as fixed reassurance via darkish instances.
Instantly after, we’re confronted with one other entice heavy foray with an help from 42 Dugg on ‘Solely Gang’, over shimmering bell samples that give the monitor a nostalgic really feel with out dipping down on power. The extra mellow power actually is available in on ‘Identical Me’ with Fridayy, which is a monitor that makes use of a simplistic drill bounce over some ethereal reverb soaked vocal sections that talk to the soul. The emotional manufacturing content material is given a break additional in on ‘Detox’, however lyrically, not as a lot: in any case, it’s themes of habit we’re speaking about.
Offset, too, pulls up in glorious style on G63, which arguably is the extra trendy of a entice piece than many of the preliminary data on the album. This contact of modernity evolves additional with the Lil Durk function on ‘We Uh Shoot’, who takes an Auto-Tune heavy strategy to rapping swift and deft over the stutter of his hats. The soul really feel after all, returns previous the slight deviation with the looks of The Child LAROI on ‘Rain Fallin’, who navigates what appears to be melancholy and anxiousness via a wet day with no solar in sight.
We hope this preview has you excited for the remainder of the album. If one factor is for certain, is that the album is a deeply private venture by Polo G, one whose authenticity surpasses examined sonic codecs on the manufacturing entrance. Test it out for your self!
