He also did well in school, so she had more traditional plans for his future. He soaked in a lot of wisdom from his grandmother, who he spent time with as a child. Backstage at The Metro, while chatting with her son’s publicist Dominique Simpson, Mac said she knew early on that Polo G was bright for his age. Stacia Mac raised Polo G and his five siblings by herself while working as a real estate professional and an attorney. “It meant everything just to throw something to give back to the city when I had a lot of roadblocks trying to put the event together, as far as the Chicago Police trying to derail us, but we ended up persevering it all,” Polo G said. The night felt like the perfect climax to his incredible journey from the fallen Cabrini-Green projects to having his critically acclaimed first album, Die A Legend, debut at number six on the Billboard 200 chart. Polo G graced the stage a litany of times, while also donating more than $15,000 of his own money to youth organizations, including the Boys and Girls Club, Erika’s Lighthouse and the Chicago Grizzlies, the AAU basketball team that Polo G founded and sponsors. After a few delays, the show started around 4 p.m., and featured a lineup of Chicago all-stars including G Herbo, Calboy, The Heavysteppers, Dreezy, Tink, Ann Marie, Happy Birthday Calvin and a surprise appearance by Jeremih - a rare occurrence in a city where homegrown hip-hop stars are never given an opportunity to appear on stage together due to heavy scrutiny by city officials and police officers against Chicago drill music and drill adjacent rappers. 16, fans had filled The Metro to capacity. 16, 2020, Polo G partnered with Audiomack streaming service to host and headline “Hometown Heroes,” a benefit concert at The Metro to support local youth-based basketball and mental health programs.īy the afternoon of Feb. Sure enough, hours before the NBA All-Star Game on Feb. Through his relentless will, and the unconditional love and support from his mom-manager Stacia Mac, Polo G kept his word. That day, he swore up and down to the other inmates that he, in his own words, would be a rich man by the time NBA All-Star Weekend hit the city in February 2020. Back in 2018, he heard about Chicago hosting the event while locked up behind bars at Cook County Jail for marijuana possession. īorn Taurus Tremani Bartlett, Polo G had dreamed about the moment NBA All-Star Weekend 2020 touched down in Chicago. Before COVID-19 brought the music and entertainment worlds to an abrupt stop, there was Cabrini Green’s own Polo G, celebrating his homecoming after riding high from his hit single, “Pop Out,” going three times platinum, plus two gold singles with “Finer Things” and “Through Da Storm,” and another RIAA gold certification for the emotionally powerful debut that ties all these tracks together, Die A Legend. But really, it was only three months ago that the NBA brought its marquee event - studded with league and celebrity superstars alike - to Chicago for the first time since 1988. Somehow, in this weird alternate pandemic reality where time ebbs and flows to an aberrant beat, NBA All-Star Weekend 2020 feels like it happened eons ago. In the words of a Pre-Trumpian Kanye West, it was all good just a week ago.
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