Polo G is one of the hottest artists in the U.S. right now with his “RAPSTAR” single currently sitting at No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart for a second week. The Chicago rapper is only 22 years old, but he isn’t shying away from giving credit to the artists who paved the way for him.
Following JAY-Z’s collaboration with Nas and DJ Khaled, “Sorry Not Sorry,” on Friday (April 30), Polo G took to Twitter the next day to give Hov props for his Hip Hop longevity and keeping up his lyrical ability into his 50s.
“This man Jay Z 50yrs Old still Walkin On Shit Effortlessly,” he wrote on Saturday (May 1).
This isn’t the first time Polo G has mentioned Hov in recent years, rapping “profit with a billion dollar mind like I’m JAY-Z” on his song “Wishing for a Hero” off 2020’s THE GOAT album. JAY-Z even co-signed the BJ The Chicago-featured track by including it on his favorite songs of 2020 playlist.
JAY-Z’s latest verse is getting praise from other new generation rappers. While linking up with DJ Khaled last week, Lil Baby rapped Hov’s “Sorry Not Sorry” lyrics: “Sorry, that’s another B/Haters still ain’t recover from the other B/Mm, that’s a double B/Nah that’s a triple B, can’t forget ’bout the other Bey (Hey).”
Topping the Hot 100 for two consecutive weeks, Polo G’s “RAPSTAR” gained 40.3 million U.S. streams and sold 2,400 downloads in the week ending April 22, while attracting three million radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending April 25. As well as the Hot 100, the song has also managed two weeks atop the Streaming Songs chart.
Polo G Calls Murda Beatz 'Lame' After Taking Credit For 'RAPSTAR' Creation
Polo G compares himself to 2Pac on “RAPSTAR” with the lyrics, “They say I’m Pac rebirth, never put out a weak verse/Homicides when we lurk, I’ma step ‘til my feet hurt.” During a Genius interview, he explained Pac’s influence on him growing up — not just through his music, but the way he carried himself too.
“My pops is a big ‘Pac fan,” he said. “That’s just the culture of our household to listen to a lot of different music. First, I was up on Lil Wayne, but when I figured out I really wanted to rap, that’s when I started looking deeper into 2Pac. And then just finding out a lot of shit about him, like the way he moved, what he stood for, just the music he was making. The messages that he had, I just felt like that’s what make him one of the all-time greats. So that’s something that you can marvel at.”
Jay hasn’t went dumb since Magna Carter. Everything they hype up from Jay lately is toilet water.
Stfu Magna Carter is Jay-Z worst album and it’s not even close!talking bout flat ass Miley Cyrus twerking n shit.fuck outta here
Jay fans stay in their feelings. Why so much hate in your heart E? You acting like facts don’t exist?
He’s right though. Magna Carta aged like milk.
I’m surprise people think this is a great lyrical verse from Jay. Some of these younger rappers are so impress, maybe they are just not use to listening to rappers that have good lyrical ability or maybe they were told to mention it on twitter or something idk. I thought Jay verse on what it feels like was his best verse in a long time and way better than his previous one on that khalid song. And also how can people be impress with this Jay verse but hate on Emenim who went off on his whole last album
Pigment
Surprise! rappers over 40 can still rap smh. This is definitely a young rapper comment. As if Rockers ain’t 60 plus years old still appealing to 20 years olds. Hip-Hop has a long way to go. Ageism in rap is super depressing.
Oh and that 50 year old and other over 40 plus year old rappers can rap circles around him and almost every rapper on radio under 30!
I think they feel that way because a lot of them are living to fast and burning out even faster. A lot of these younger generation rappers know that they won’t have the same longevity as the older cats.
This heading makes it seem like jav was tryna impress Polo G
But if he’s being honest, he’s not impressed with jay selling out the people. How you gonna talk positive about jack dorsey LOL? Twitter is spearheading the big tech censorship movement and it’s unconstitutional. It is the polar opposite of free speech
This must be maga mal
Whats going on at the border guys?
“We recognize it as a mistake that we made, both in terms of the intention of the policy and also the enforcement action of not allowing people to share it publicly or privately,” Dorsey confessed at Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
But he was still playing games, saying the move was “corrected” within “24 hours” — when Twitter actually kept The Post’s account locked for two full weeks.
and y’all rocking with this? hahahahahahah sheep
NOT…..
Imagine if Basquiat lived to be 50 and some up and coming graffiti artist gave him a shoutout for being able to still create at 50…
So all I’m seeing is people praising King HOV’s verse but Nas stans still wanna say it’s terrible? See, this is why nobody takes y’all seriously. The people have spoken, everyone hates that cringy “cryptocurrency Scarface” bar and cleared baby money Nas’ verse from their memories and King HOV clearly has the better verse. Still the GOAT, bitches! It’s the ROC in here!
All that shit is WACK. I have heard better from both. What is J even talking about with the B’s? Bet u dont know?
Billions b
Not everyone falls off lol
Jay’s worst bar is better than some dudes best.
And I’m not being a stan I just mean generally.
He must be brainwashed or didn’t graduate, one of the two. Jay is not that nice on the mic.
Umm “Is you dumb” Remy Ma voice. You must be 12 and not have YouTube, do your HW. Jay is a G.OA.T.
It’s Karen. Of course she’s gonna hate on a great like Jay-Z. They don’t call the man Hov for nothing.
?ITS GOOD TO GIVE PROPS WHEN IT IS DUE. THANKS TO THE YOUNGINS KNOWING HOW TO GIVE PRAISE.?PDUB WALKER