{"id":2742,"date":"2020-07-01T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2025-05-17T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:58:28","slug":"the-goat-the-sophomore-project-from-polo-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=2742","title":{"rendered":"THE GOAT The Sophomore Project From Polo G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Polo G released his sophomore project THE GOAT, MCs declaring themselves the &#8220;greatest of all time\u201d was as ubiquitous in hip-hop as claiming to be desirable to the opposite sex. But within the project, the still-ascending Chicago MC presents a version of himself matured enough beyond 2019\u2019s Die a Legend that he\u2019s entitled to a little confidence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2743\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2743\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/THE-GOAT-by-Polo-G-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/THE-GOAT-by-Polo-G-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/THE-GOAT-by-Polo-G-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/THE-GOAT-by-Polo-G.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geo.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/the-goat\/1511793475?mt=1&amp;app=music&amp;at=1010lLq2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Stream THE GOAT by Polo G<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>THE GOAT features somber piano lines throughout (\u201cDon\u2019t Believe the Hype,\u201d \u201c33,\u201d \u201cNo Matter What,\u201d \u201cBe Something\u201d), but Polo is considerably bigger here than the \u201cpain music\u201d descriptor his work often gets lumped in with. He is reflective storyteller on \u201cHeartless,\u201d smitten lover on \u201cMartin &amp; Gina,\u201d and equal parts technical rap show-off and riot-starter on \u201cGo Stupid\u201d (which also features Stunna 4 Vegas and NLE Choppa). The album contains additional appearances from Mustard, Lil Baby, and BJ the Chicago Kid, but it\u2019s \u201cFlex,\u201d a collaboration with fallen comrade Juice WRLD, that delivers some of the best rapping of Polo\u2019s young career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Polo G released his sophomore project THE GOAT, MCs declaring themselves the &#8220;greatest of all time\u201d was as ubiquitous in hip-hop as claiming to be desirable to the opposite sex. But within the project, the still-ascending Chicago MC presents a version of himself matured enough beyond 2019\u2019s Die a Legend that he\u2019s entitled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,196],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-project","tag-sophomore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6142,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/6142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}