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Jail records show the rapper, whose name is Taurus Bartlett, was booked into jail early Saturday on five charges and released on bond hours later.
MIAMI — Rapper Polo G was arrested Saturday on charges including battery on a police officer, resisting arrest with violence and criminal mischief.
Jail records show the rapper, whose name is Taurus Bartlett, was booked into jail early Saturday on five charges and released on bond hours later.
The Miami Police Department released arrest affidavits in which officers stated Bartlett, 22, and others were pulled over early Saturday, and the rapper ended up in a struggle on the ground with officers. One of the documents says an officer who was trying to handcuff Bartlett was struck multiple times.
The documents say Bartlett was aggressive as he resisted arrest in downtown Miami. One of the officers said he had ordered him and all the passengers in the car he was traveling in to get out of the vehicle to pat them down for firearms, saying he suspected they carried weapons because they heard a passenger claim the vehicle was bulletproof.
The police department said it was reviewing the incident that would include examining all camera footage, saying the arrest was captured on several body-worn cameras. Police spokesman Michael Vega said it also was investigating several threats received against personnel and facilities in response to the rapper’s arrest.
The Chicago-based artist had just released his newest album “Hall of Fame” on Friday. His single “Rapstar” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April. His mother and manager said on Instagram that Polo G and his younger brother were riding in a car with security after an album release party.
The mother, Stacia Mac, posted a message on Facebook saying she had bonded out Polo G and other people who were arrested in the same traffic stop. Jail records did not list an attorney for the rapper.
The new songs on “Cycles,” are still folk-tinged but also show Baiman expanding her songwriting and instrumentation.
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Rachel Baiman had finished recording the songs for her new album, “Cycles,” and was in the process of mixing and mastering when everything came to a stop due to the pandemic and she hopped on the “emotional rollercoaster” like every other musician.
“It was so hard not knowing what was going to happen,” Baiman recalls. “But it did give me the freedom to play with the album for awhile because there was no hard deadline to get it out. Everything was up in the air.”
As things now get back to normal, Baiman and band return to the road to celebrate the release of “Cycles” (due out June 11) at a free outdoor show at FitzGerald’s on June 19. She’ll perform with Jacob Groopman (guitar), Miss Tess (bass) and Lauren Horbal (drums).
“Cycles” is a collection of songs, co-produced with Olivia Hally (the front woman for the indie-pop band Oh Pep!), that reflect on the cycles of life — at times heartbreaking, at times celebratory.
“There were all these cyclical themes that I was seeing in the songs — the loss of a child, remembering my late grandmother, the cycles of racism and progression,” Baiman says.
As compared to her first solo album, 2017’s “Shame,” which was a siren call to the American female experience, she notes, “Now I feel I have more of a zoomed out view of a lot of things after the past few years which have been so intense in this country.”
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Baiman grew up in Oak Park and attended Oak Park and River Forest High School, and while she performed with various school orchestras, fiddle music was her first love. From a young age, she took lessons with Mike Casey, one of the founders of the Oak Park Farmer’s Market bluegrass circle that gathered on Saturday mornings to entertain shoppers.
“Mike was a great teacher and invited me to join in the bluegrass circle,” Baiman says. “It was a pretty funny scene. Mainly it was 12-year-old playing with a group of much older men and a few women. But they were all really sweet, and everyone helped me learn the basics of playing in an informal folk ensemble.”
Baiman attended Nashville’s Vanderbilt University where she studied anthropology: “I know it’s a little bit random but I think it actually helps my songwriting in terms of the perspective it has afforded me of humanity,”
Still deeply interested in music, she soon realized how close she was to the Nashville music scene yet so far away. Underage and without a car, she spent most of her time in the “Vanderbilt bubble.”
“I knew that there was all this music going on around town and I was so frustrated because I couldn’t access it,” she says. But then she spent a semester in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she was of age at 20 and the city’s music scene welcomed her with open arms.
“I was going to pubs and playing fiddle and meeting all these cool musicians. When I got back to Nashville, I told myself ‘If I can find a music scene in a foreign country, I can do it here’.”
Since then, Baiman, 31, has settled into the Nashville scene just fine: first as a fiddle player and instrumentalist (she is known in the bluegrass and old time world as a member of 10 String Symphony along with fellow fiddle player Christian Sedelmyer) and more recently as a singer-songwriter inspired by the thriving songwriter scene in Nashville.
Baiman says it was listening to the music of John Hartford that first inspired her to try her hand at songwriting.
“That was the bridge for me between old-time fiddle playing and songwriting,” she says. “I realized a song didn’t have to be technically perfect for it to be beautiful and impactful.”
As she dove deeper into songwriting, her devotion to the fiddle turned out “to not be a priority. It was like a pendulum swinging the other way.” The new songs on “Cycles,” are still folk-tinged but also show Baiman expanding her songwriting and instrumentation.
“I really enjoy the freedom to make musical decisions without worrying how it could work on fiddle,” Baiman explains. “There came a point when I just wanted to be able to think about the art I wanted to create and the craft (her fiddle) became secondary.
“It took me a while to come to that realization and now I feel really comfortable just moving between whatever instrumentation feels right for the song.”
And that aforementioned “emotional rollercoaster” of the past year is about to come to a screeching halt.
“To be on the road again after so much time is going to be an amazing feeling,” Baiman says. “I’ve been sitting on this project that I’m so proud of for so long. It’s going to feel great to finally perform the songs live before a hometown audience.”
“I experience auditory hallucinations sometimes with camera clicks and severe paranoia and have been going to therapy for a lot of things but that included,” Jackson says.
NEW YORK — Paris Jackson, stopping by “Red Table Talk” for a frank discussion about living under the media glare, reveals she suffers long-term anxiety and trauma from enduring countless camera clicks by paparazzi since she was a child.
“I experience auditory hallucinations sometimes with camera clicks and severe paranoia and have been going to therapy for a lot of things but that included,” Jackson says. “I’ll hear a trash bag rustling and flinch in panic.” She adds: “I think it’s standard PTSD.”
Jackson, the daughter of Michael Jackson, has a one-on-one discussion with fellow paparazzi target and friend Willow Smith on the Wednesday’s edition of the online talk show that airs at 11 a.m. on Facebook Watch.
During the show’s introduction, Smith says she met Jackson on the set of mom Jada Pinkett Smith’s TV show “Hawthorne.” Smith and Jackson soon forged a bond over growing up with parents in the spotlight, and over love of music, modeling, and issues like mental health, sexuality and body image. One way Jackson says she keeps some privacy is by asking people in her home to sign non-disclosure agreements.
Jackson, who has dated men and women, tells Smith that while there is tension with some of her family members over her sexuality, she has leaned on her brothers — Prince and Prince Michael II — and longtime family friend Omer Bhatti.
“They’ve always been super-supportive,” she says, noting that to better connect with his sister, Prince Jackson in high school joined a student-run club that unites LGBTQ+ and allied youth. “Not a lot of people can say they have siblings that support them like that.”
In 2020, Paris Jackson and then-boyfriend Gabriel Glenn — who formed the acoustic duo The Soundflowers — had a docu-series on Facebook Watch called “Unfiltered,” which provided a glimpse into her private life. Jackson revealed self-harm and suicide attempts in her testimonials, and said music was a way to channel her pain. She released her debut solo album “Wilted” in November.
“Red Table Talk” has recently made headlines with interviews with Olivia Jade Gianulli, Kelly Osbourne, and when Pinkett Smith and her husband, Will Smith, discussed their marriage.
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