Polo Baby Flako works out of Kissimmee in Central Florida, describes his sound as gritty boom-bap-influenced street music, and also shoots video which is worth knowing, because it means the visual side of this operation is being handled by the artist rather than a hired crew. "TAMAGOTCHI" is his new single, produced by Ty of Dirty Bakerz, with RJ Payne on the feature. Two things make it worth more than a mention. First, the producer: Ty of Dirty Bakerz is a new name and the record is built to put him forward rather than bury him, which is rarer than it should be on a single with a name guest attached. Second, the guest RJ Payne has been recording across several generations of this music, and Polo stepping into that company rather than trading sideways is a deliberate choice. Polo's working method, described in an interview late last year, is to record verses in one take with no punch-ins and let the beat determine the cadence and the emotion. That approach produces a particular kind of record committed, slightly rough at the edges, never second-guessed and it's audible in how the verse sits. Two minutes forty, and it's the first single from a forthcoming EP called Half A Dozen, scheduled for early November. No mix credits or label listed. For listeners tracking the Florida underground outside the Miami orbit, this is a name to log.
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