The last song titled, “The Febreze Song,” is a clear indication that Jack Harlow had taken his mother’s advice to heart.
“They were like, ‘It’s kind of ass and his voice is high-pitched because his balls haven’t dropped, but dude actually made a mixtape.’” “Kids were wanting them as soon as I got in the damn door,” he says.
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Harlow,” he made his first solo mixtape called “Extra Credit” and gave away 100 free copies to kids at his school. In seventh grade, after obtaining a better quality microphone and creating the rap name for himself, “Mr. He even recalls his mother buying him a CD for Kanye West’s Late Registration. In interviews and in his music, he gives considerable credit to his mother for inspiring him as a child to pursue his rap dreams. I said, ‘The one thing I know about writing is they say to write what you know.” Taking his mother’s advice, he began to write about the regular experiences in his life as a twelve year old, even if they weren’t particularly fascinating. His mother says, “he was struggling a little bit with the fact that he wasn’t a Black kid from a rough neighborhood. When they were finished, they burned 40 copies and sold them at their middle school for two dollars each.Įarly in his career, Jack Harlow struggled thinking of things to write about in his music. With his makeshift studio, he recorded his first songs ever on a CD called “Rippin’ and Rappin ’.” His friend Copelan Garvey also contributed to the CD. That year in sixth grade, Harlow built his first recording setup with a microphone from the Guitar Hero video game and a laptop from his parents. Jack simply replied, “Okay.” From that day forward, Jack Harlow strived to reach his dream of becoming a rapper. After some quick math, she determined that every day for the next six years, her son would need to practice rapping for four to five hours. Using that theory, Jack Harlow’s mother calculated how much he would have to practice to achieve greatness by his 18th birthday. “Mom, how do I become the best rapper in the world?” His mother had recently read the book “Outliers, ” which reinforced the theory that the secret to greatness is through practicing your craft for 10,000 hours. One day, when he was twelve, his parents pulled into the driveway, and Harlow decided to pose a question to them. When he turned 10 years old, Jack Harlow asked his mother for permission to listen to the explicit albums in her collection from artists like A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, and N.W.A. Writing rap is just expressing myself through language.” I grasped the power of speech and words super early, and that’s what got me into music. Not in a dramatic, been-through-a-lot way, but in how I use humor to interact with people. By third grade, though, he’d decided to learn the words to “White & Nerdy” by Weird Al Yankovic so he could rap them to his classmates and make them laugh.Īs a young kid, he was able to embrace his insecurities and respond positively to adversity.
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When he was in kindergarten, he suffered from a lazy left eye and had to wear a patch over his right eye to make the left one stronger.Īccording to Jack Harlow, his classmates would tease him and call him a nerd because of his eye-patch. As a young child, he always had a passion for music. His first introduction to hip-hop comes even before his birth when his mother would play Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP” with him in the womb. Jack Harlow was born Jackman Thomas Harlow on March 13th, 1998, in Louisville, Kentucky. I think when you show that vulnerability and you show your weaknesses, it makes that strength and those superman qualities feel more believable.” Background In an interview with DAZED in 2020, he spoke about his transparency as an artist, saying, “I think it’s liberating to show the totality of who I am. His music hits on all facets of his life, including the exorbitant sides of being a celebrity, as well as the less attractive topics like depression and anxiety.
As opposed to a huge percentage of the rap game that is focused on drugs, sex, and guns, Jack Harlow’s music has proven to be much more accessible for fans. Jack Harlow has been able to grab the attention of audiences worldwide, portraying a fairly normal, suburban life that the average fan could relate to.
He is currently signed to DJ Drama and Don Cannon’s Generation Now record label, as well as Atlantic Records. More recently, he has gone viral with his huge hit single, “What’s Poppin’,” which peaked at the number two spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. The 22-year old has been steadily gaining traction since his debut EP release in 2015, “The Handsome Harlow,” and his breakout mixtape in 2016, “18.”
However, he is quickly developing to be one of the most promising young talents in the entire industry. Jack Harlow has been building a name for himself in the Kentucky hip-hop scene since he was a teenager.
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