About “Polo Jeans”

The ninth track off of Mac Miller’s “Faces” was produced by randomblackdude and features a verse by Earl Sweatshirt himself.

Mac and Earl are criticizing how critics perceive their music and how ruthless these critics are in their reviews. Mac and Earl are human beings, but because they’re rappers, critics feel that they can belittle and humiliate them like they’re some subspecies of human, just like the kids terrorizing the “rabbit” in Gummo. Mac and Earl chose this sample because of their empathy with the rabbit in this scene.

Scattered throughout the song is a sample of this scene from the movie Gummo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6LQRikA2kI

The exact same scene is also played out of context in Bunz’s (DMX’s character) house in the beginning of the movie Belly.