Polo G and the pursuit of life's 'Finer Things'
“I could see people grasping to what I had going on,” he says, referring in particular to his Innovations English teacher Keith Chrisman, who encouraged Bartlett to take up poetry. “He was one of the people that pushed me towards rapping and taking the path I did.” Chrisman pushed for the rapper to participate in the Chicago slam poetry tradition Louder Than a Bomb, where a number of other talents like Chance the Rapper and Noname had their moments, too.
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