Flex
by Polo G (featuring Juice WRLD)

Album: The Goat (2020)
Charted: 30
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Polo G spits some braggadocios bars celebrating the rewards his hustling and rapping has brought him. To "flex" is to show off; Polo boasts "stuntin' is my strong suit" and he's got "a hundred cash, look at what these songs do."
  • The song features a verse by Juice WRLD. Both rappers were raised in Chicago and used to hang out together. Polo explained to Billboard that they would chill rather than make music together.

    "We used to kick it with each other every day - not music related, didn't make no songs, none of that," he said. "He was rocking with me. I was on his music before he blew up, but we didn't know each other before music. Juice actually reached out to me and showed love to me. And he didn't have to do that, because at the time, he was the biggest artist in the world."
  • California producer Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis, Jr. supplied the beat. Hit-Boy's other credits include Lil Wayne and Eminem's 2010 single "Drop The World" and Nipsey Hussle's 2011 cut "Racks in the Middle."
  • Despite being homies, Polo and Juice didn't record much together. Their only other collaboration was Juice's "Lonely Road," which leaked on January 29, 2020. Polo explained to hnhh that he'd recorded a song with Hit-Boy with an open verse. Hit-Boy said that he'd get Juice on it and within a couple of weeks he'd sent a verse back.

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