The life of Jack Harlow

From growing up in a horse farm in Kentucky to rapping alongside Lil Nas X and Drake ... This is the story of Jack Harlow.

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00:00I've changed the way I do a lot of things over my career and it's all been authentic to me and in my opinion

00:04I've gotten closer and closer to who I actually am

00:20I had the privilege of growing into my fame. It didn't happen overnight for me. I mean to me it started in elementary school

00:30I

00:38Was the reason I got into hip-hop my mom was a huge hip-hop fan

00:42She was going to public enemy concerts and things when she was in college

00:46So when I was growing up, she was playing the Marshall Mathers Opie. I remember when she bought late registration. She was playing in a car

01:00You're getting busy working on my next track so don't get mad if you try to text Jack

01:04I figured I'd burn him to a disc and took him to school sold him for $2 a piece

01:08They'd like $60 in middle school

01:17Well, I was the kid in the scene in the city that people knew wanted to rap I did horrible shows

01:22But I did shows with no one in the building. I felt all those feelings

01:30I

01:34Built a core fan base that have been listening to me as I found myself

01:37I

01:55Thought three of these dudes I love them. I mean we work together, but it's a family thing

01:59Nothing here in place is creating with your friends

02:01Funny how it all works out right before I did this I was feeling burnt out

02:04Not a whole city better get burnt down coming up in Louisville. I was doing any show I could get

02:08I was anyone to come to town. I was myself emailing promoters trying to open so

02:13And then I took it down to Atlanta. I was doing open mics

02:31And

02:44A friend of mine named Randy had been telling me yo, this is kid. This is kid

02:48We got I gotta bring him by mean streets is

02:50This is kid and he you know, he was like his name's Jack Harlow. So I looked him up

03:02I

03:06Any 2020 goals you want to reach? Yeah, I want to become a superstar next year. Well you want your way, baby

03:17What's poppin brand-new we're just hiding I got options

03:31I

03:45Grew up surrounded by black people and you know, they would tell me about their experience but being a white person like

03:51There's no way I can ever truly feel it

04:01I

04:04Buy a media admiration for him just came from his sense of humor on the internet and I came to find out he's a big fan

04:15Think a lot of people when they hear Kentucky they think country rural no shoes can't read type shit got us

04:31And try to savor it