The wait is over: Polo G is again with a full size album challenge, and this one 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 most effective, 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 prime notch and is backed by choir-like vocals within the background that helps a excessive pitched hook.
The challenge then transitions off into ‘No Recruits’ with a splendid function from G Herbo, bouncing off the vitality from the primary observe, solely to steer 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 by way of darkish occasions.
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 observe a nostalgic really feel with out dipping down on vitality. The extra mellow vitality in actual fact is available in on ‘Similar Me’ with Fridayy, which is a observe 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 spite of everything, it’s themes of habit we’re speaking about.
Offset, too, pulls up in wonderful trend 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 in fact, returns previous the slight deviation with the looks of The Child LAROI on ‘Rain Fallin’, who navigates what appears to be melancholy and anxiousness by way of 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 positive, is that the album is a deeply private challenge by Polo G, one whose authenticity surpasses examined sonic codecs on the manufacturing entrance. Test it out for your self!
