finally handsome ten tracks straight fire I'm self proclaiming myself as the
best rapper in Louisville right now right here right here right now before
Jack Carla would drop his track Sylvia through the night and what's poppin
which peaked at number 84 on the Billboard Hot 100 what that with that
before Jack Carla would collaborate with the boys from lyrical lemonade Bryson
tiller k Kemp and Rhino from love lips serve before Jack Carla would clock in
close to 400,000 followers on the gram no you know I just grown up a lot since
then I've added some vices okay I've thought about things I've thought things
through so I'm actually pretty excited to be taking a break from the TIG
talkers as we got some real genuine talent we're featuring here today now
Jack Harlow he is a man making moves with a whole lot of buzz which is all
part of the master plan he's been making for himself since the age of 12
now his obsession with lyricism and frequent release of mixtapes they
quickly made him a local legend in his hometown of Louisville Kentucky and by
the time he was in his freshman year of high school well he was already having
meetings with the likes of Def Jam and Atlantic Records but Jack he didn't take
a deal right away and he's been very calculated in his rap journey now he
even declined to be on an MTV reality show about up-and-coming rappers yeah
this kid he's taken a lot of thought about his rap journey he's actually
taken a whole bunch of his old music videos and photos off of the internet
because he didn't want the old stuff to diminish his credibility yeah this guy
he's really put a lot of thought into things like even this I've never made
like a big and any my songs like that was my first one cuz like I'm not on
some like you know micros you know what I mean but like I'm not I'm also like
not crazy like you know but I was so worried that the girls I used to best
we're gonna be like songs hard but just know like it ain't that big I like this
kid I think he's gonna be the next big thing it's easy to draw comparisons
between him and post Valon and Jack he's likely aware of this and
well he's pretty honest and upfront about his role as a white man and wrath
on hitchcock he raps I'm just a guest inside the house of a culture that ain't
mine and I'm just blessed to be around what's going on guys this boy Mike
cretin back added with another before they were famous this time on Jack
Harlow no big chunk of the information I gathered for this script it comes from
an interview Jack gave to Josh moss and this was at the Louisville magazine it
was super in-depth and detailed so I've left a link to that down below no other
requests I've been working on they include Arizona's or vas I think that's
how you say it by the time I make the video I'll figured it out I need you
guys to keep letting us know who's next in the comments down below and I'll see
you after the intro Hey be sure to subscribe and hit that Bell boom jack
Carla was born jackman Thomas Harlow on March 13 1998 in Louisville Kentucky
that was mom Maggie she played a lot of Eminem while he was in the womb so let's
say his musical journey it started from the get-go it looks like Jack he comes
from a middle or upper middle-class family with his parents running two
successful companies a sick new Ram oh where Jack would later work and
Transworld business advisers or at least his mom works there though he's got a
younger brother named clay and his family they moved from the countryside
of Shelbyville to the big city of Louisville when the boys were little and
this was so they could be closer to other kids their age where I'm from it's
a city and a lot of people from Louisville had this desire to be
respected in that way because they won't even say Kentucky when you tell them
where they're from not me I'm not like that I represent Kentucky but Louisville
is a city it's urban we've got skyscrapers we got bridges we got human
beings in suits walking around it's got a million people it's got real people
walking around in suits that's my favorite part that was a young kid in
kindergarten Wheeljack he had to wear a patch over his right eye in an attempt
to make his left lazy eye a little stronger now due to the patch you know
all his classmates well they started to tease him calling him a nerd and in
response well he learned all the words to Weird Al Yankovic's parody white
nerdy and he would rap it to those same kids all of a sudden that bullies will
they turn into friends that lazy-eye it turns out is the reason why Jack's
always seen sporting his glasses but it all makes sense because growing up he
says he was a massive fan of the Harry Potter books
he was also into another series known as warriors now his dad he was in the
music but his mom she had a love for rap and when he was just 10 years old he
asked his mom if he could listen to the explicit albums in her collection
now these included A Tribe Called Quest Public Enemy NWA and more starting to
rap for himself seem to be an uncontrollable obsession that started
when he was 10 now Jack he told his dad one day when he was in middle school
every time I hear anybody say anything I try to rhyme I'd be at soccer practice
and I heared words anything multi-syllable and would just start
rhyming he described this almost like his own personal puberty now by 12 years
old he had made up his mind about his future and he asked his mom how do I
become the best rapper in the world her answer was an encouraging one though she
had just read the book outliers which popularized the theory that the secret
to greatness is 10,000 hours of practice now they did the math and if he
dedicated 4 to 5 hours every day will he'd be there by his 18th birthday so
Jack he took this as fact and he got to work now in the 6th grade will he use
the microphone from a Guitar Hero game console and he also used the laptop to
record his first rhymes working with a friend known as Copeland gravy well they
put out a harlow featuring coke CD and they've titled it ripping and rapid for
this they burned 40 copies and they sold it to all the kids at Highland middle
school for 2 bucks apiece no early on Jack he wasn't sure what to write about
he was struggling a little bit with the fact that he wasn't a black kid from a
rough neighborhood but in the end he decided just to be honest with who he
was and what he was going through speaking more on this Jack he told Josh
boss but culture was the coolest thing to all kids growing up whether they want
to say it like that or not but I didn't want a copy I didn't want to steal from
it I wanted to put my own twist on it tell my own story he also struggled with
schoolwork and his music obsession it left little time for homework with him
often falling asleep in class but it sounds like his teachers well they were
pretty encouraging though his sixth grade science teacher Walker Swain he
produced music and asked Jack to be on a song and the two of them they collapsed
then the football coach he heard Jack's music and he connected him with the
studio called Fort Knox and a producer known as Larabee i N
or Larbi no no there was also another teacher from his elementary school who
got him addicted to liking older women and if you follow him on the gram you'll
notice that he frequently shouts out older actresses like worse' Tomei
hey Constance Murray aka Angie Lopez eventually he would up his game with a
professional microphone and adopted the moniker mr. Harlow now in the seventh
grade he gave away a hundred copies of his first solo mixtape extra credit and
this time well he didn't even charge the two box nobody's gonna be messing with
this it's gonna be hot and like I'm bragging but and I'm hyping it up but
his dope it is junior year he put out finally handsome as Jack Harlow and he
started posting videos to YouTube now from their phone calls they started
coming in for potential managers and others who wanted to sign him then one
of those people just so happened to be Scooter Braun which led to a meeting at
his LA mansion another meeting with Def Jam happened in New York as well as
Atlantic Records in Los Angeles all during his freshman year personally a
music speaks for itself you know what I'm saying like just go out there and
download it and I know you all will mess with this it's gonna notice play now you
or I might have handled that situation well he didn't take a deal and
reflecting back on and now he cites that as the right move now as his friends get
ready to go to college well he stuck out working at his parents Cigna ramen
business while dedicating all his free time to his music he released his next
fix tape 18 shortly after completing high school which was the first album on
his label and used a collective private garden now Jack he grew up in the
Highlands area of Louisville which is filled with nightclubs restaurants
theaters and more but when he graduated high school will he move to the berry
boulevard with his friends and this was the senior part of town there he saw
drug addicts and people facing harsher realities than he had grown up around
now after six months he moved to Germantown into a two-story house this
was owned by his grandmother he also picked up his first whip off of Grandma
a 2005 pontiac grand prix and for that he paid a whopping 2000 bucks though his
music wasn't yet paying the bills but it quickly became a local hero
playing all the Louisville venues this included headliners Mercury ballroom Hey
get whiskey bar and the show at the since closed new vintage no jag has said
that he will forever rap his hometown know over the next year he would travel
to Atlanta to record he would perform at South by Southwest in 2018 he signed
with DJ Drama and Don canons Atlantic Records imprint generation now that was
buzz it would only continue to grow with his first major label debut mixtape
loose and collabs with K camp on pick your phone up I'm actually a big k camp
fan with cutter off being one of my all-time favorite jams also there was
through the night that one with Bryson Teller
it was another banger now the big explosion for Jack was his track what's
poppin where he worked with lyrical lemonade and Cole Bennett and the music
video well it was a banger I think we're looking at over 10 million views at the
time of this recording so good for that as for the rest of the story well I
think I'm gonna wrap this one up here because this of course is before they're
famous my name's michael crichton we make all sorts every bios here for you
on this channel you guys got to let us know who's next in the comments down
below we also have one more video because if you like this one you might
want to check out the next one and do that and then I'll see you guys in
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