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