DURT PO a.k.a. Flawda Boi Durt
DURT PO a.k.a. Flawda Boi Durt
Meet Sergeant White a.k.a. Dirt Po. He started rapping at the age of 12 and is now doing his sixth year in 
the United States Army after they extended his active duty time due to the war in the Middle East. While many in the rap industry simply “talk” about guns and violence – Dirt Po has been subjected to real life bombings, attacks, and shootouts on almost a daily basis. He has a “purple heart” for being hit with shrapnel and shot in the leg. “Seeing the things that I’ve seen, and going through what I have has changed my life,” says Dirt Po. “People in the hood think they bad when they got a gun – but they don’t know about no M16’s or AK 47’s. They don’t know what it’s like to see your friends blown up into pieces for stepping on landmines.”
His career started when he was 16. His good friend George, told him that he thought Fidel Cashflow would like his style. He next let Lady lyric, Georges sister hear his flows and she quickly got him on the phone with Cashflow. “That was it from there,” says PO, Cashflow loved my style and said that he was looking for a down south artist.” “He recorded me on some of his tracks and even got me radio play on 102 jams in Orlando Florida which made me a hood superstar to all my friends and co-students, “cheerfully explains Dirt Po. “What I like about working with Cashflow is that whether I’m here or absent he still makes things happen for me, Pure Cash Entertainment is very consistent.”
Dirt Po writes all of his own material and is inspired by artists like T.I., Young Jeezy, Nelly, Paul Wall, Mile Jones, Jay Z, game, Young Buck and Lloyd Banks. He also says that he gets lots of inspiration from where he grew up. He was raised in Mercy Drive, a very poor section of Orlando, Florida. “My dad was always in and out of jail until he finally got a life sentence and my mom remarried when I was 5 and moved to North Carolina, leaving me to live with my Grandma who really couldn’t handle me. After getting into an endless amount of trouble she “encouraged” me to go to the military when u was 17 fresh out of high school. “ He decided to give himself the name Dirt Po because his “pockets were hurting,” and even though he’s a little better off now he represents the struggle of the poverty stricken ghettos of Mercy drive. His number one goal in the music business is to put Orlando, Florida on the map. “Miami is cool, but people should know that it’s not just Mickey and Minnie out here – it’s real hood here too, “says Po.
“Don’t quit,” is the best advice he gives to other aspiring artists, and his main driving force right now is his newborn son. “I gotta feed him, take care of him, make something happen for him: If my family don’t eat, I don’t eat”- screams Po. He has been doing lots of talent shows and performances out in the different places he’s been stationed at in the Army, and has recently done a lot of recording with his manager and mentor Fidel Cashflow during his leave. “Music is all we got out here,” says Dirt Po, who prides himself with currently being the only down south emcee on the roster of Pure Cash Entertainment’s artists. When asked where he sees himself in 5 years he charmingly replies:“ In 5 years I see myself paid with a bunch of cars and a great success!”