Jack Harlow

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jack Harlow has known his life's purpose since he was a 12-year-old sixth grader rhyming into a microphone from the video game Guitar Hero: He was going to be rapper. His first solo mixtape was a hot-seller in the halls of his Kentucky middle school. Now, the 24-year-old Grammy-nominated star is selling-out venues across the country and around the world. In this week's "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist gets together with the rapper in between his two Boston shows, where fans were packed shoulder-to-shoulder singing along to every word.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.8	My thanks as always for clicking, listening along.
0:09.6	Got a great one for you this week with one of the brightest young stars in all of music.
0:14.4	His name is Jack Harlow.
0:17.4	Maybe you know him from his hit song First Class?
0:19.9	The debuted at number one, it's got that sample from Fergie's song, Glamrs in there.
0:24.6	Maybe you know him from his feature.
0:26.5	From the Lil Nas X hit Industry Baby, maybe you know Jack's song What's Poppin' from 2020.
0:32.3	That was his breakout.
0:33.7	This crazy rise he's been on, this crazy road to the top of music is really only two and
0:39.1	a half or so years old.
0:40.9	Now of course, his story starts way before that in Louisville, Kentucky.
0:45.3	He grew up with parents who were small business owners.
0:47.7	His father loved country music, but his mom loved hip hop.
0:51.3	And he got that love from his mom.
0:53.0	He started rapping when he was 12 on a guitar hero microphone in his room.
0:58.4	First mixtape made in middle school, sold it for two bucks a pop when he got to school
1:03.2	at recess.
1:05.0	He's good, he's got clever lyrics, he's got a very rhythmic flow, he's very charming to
1:10.1	sit down and talk with.
1:11.4	Maybe you've seen all the viral videos of him being charming.
1:14.0	There are these compilations on YouTube just titled Jack Harlow being charming.
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