The 23-year-old 'RAPSTAR' hitmaker shares the backstory of his hit 2019 single to celebrate his new milestone as the video has reached 100 million views on YouTube.
- Apr 2, 2022
AceShowbiz - Polo G celebrated the milestone of his hit 2019 single "Heartless" by sharing a shocking back story of the music video filming for the track. In a new Instagram post, the rapper shared he was almost overdosed before the taping.
"Back story Fa Dat video I was Fresh out the hospital bed From almost overdosing Onnem pills I pop right back out," the "RAPSTAR" spitter said of "Heartless" music video, which has garnered 100 million on YouTube. "Shoot Dat Video now dat b***h Platinum w 100ms By it."
Polo G first talked about the experience back in December. In an interview, the 23-year-old rapper shared that he ended up in the hospital after losing count of how many pills he popped at a party the night before.
"When I woke up, I was in the hospital," he recalled. "And my pops was just explaining to me like 'they said, '[Iif] you would had been here any second, even a minute later, you wouldn't have made it. You probably could've passed.' "
He went on to detail, "They was walking me through everything that happened that day, because I really didn't remember at all. I think it was like 17 pills I had took in one day; about 15 Xanax and two [Ecstasy] pills. So that just made me think [about] my son, how I got to slow down off that."
Meanwhile, "Heartless" marks Polo G's fourth video to break 100 million views. He previously hit the milestones with "RAPSTAR", "Pop Out" and "Finer Things".
The hip-hop star had a successful year in 2021 as he achieved a gold record. He closed out the year by purchasing a $4.8 million mansion in Los Angeles as well as a 5-figure-run at fashion brand Amiri to spoil himself on his birthday.
