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May 11, 2022
Jack Harlow stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about the new album "Come Home The Kids Miss You" alongside DJ Drama.
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that was an early flex bruh you know
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we're listening to that clip on the way
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here it's just crazy the same way this
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is saying we were just in the sprinter
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listening to that
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[Applause]
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yo i wow just sitting and listening to
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it i
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like that's my first time hearing it
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since it happened yeah db pulled that
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clip i said pull any clip db pulled that
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clip of all clips nostalgia ultra
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classic forever forever
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jack harlow is here man
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grammy nods how many are you up to now
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two or three
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it's three
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i knew that i like that
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hey hp you hear that humility i love it
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he said two or three it's three i love
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it it's
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three um
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how many uh billboard awards anyone
0:48
i don't know i don't think so not yet
0:51
mtv i'm still stacking up my accolades
0:53
man i got some work to do got some work
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to do
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it's so impressive i love telling these
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stories in fact i just like being a part
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of these stories and uh the first way we
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met jack carla was through the legendary
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iconic
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uh integra integral uh pillar of the
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culture the one and only magnificent
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amazing
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jubilant and vibrant
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visionary in vanguard
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innovator
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dj drama
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dramatic
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[Applause]
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the greatest ever the greatest ever
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dj drama is the greatest ever number one
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all time [ __ ]
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who would you say is the greatest ever
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drama
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he's not supposed to say he's not
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supposed
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um man congratulations on all your
1:54
success all seriousness it's it's it's
1:56
great to see i've watched you develop
1:58
and evolve as an artist
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uh from your early
2:02
music from the early projects that you
2:04
put out that we were very supportive of
2:07
um i've rooted for you i silently rooted
2:09
for you first and foremost because that
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man introduced me secondly i thought i
2:13
met you for the first time and felt your
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energy and felt your personality i said
2:17
i would love for this kid to win you
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know
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and what it takes to win is a lot of um
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dedication commitment
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to your craft you know um to your look
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you know to your presentation and tracy
2:31
and i was talking about this all morning
2:34
how much he's evolved as an artist
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mm-hmm right and so when i look at you
2:38
right now you don't even look like the
2:40
same person that's right
2:42
because you're not here the same person
2:44
right in your mind probably not yeah
2:47
probably not what's the difference
2:49
between you then when we played that
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clip and now would you say
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it's tough you know i was listening to
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it and i was surprised that
2:59
i i sounded like myself but i think
3:02
maybe i just grown up a little bit grown
3:04
into myself
3:05
i was telling them i have a beard now
3:07
uh-huh so that made your difference for
3:10
me
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my my experiences in soy have been very
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baby-faced yeah
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yeah that's a fact we were just noticing
3:17
that and i mean like when it comes to
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growth of course there's an interior
3:21
design but also the way it's expressed
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outwardly with your aesthetic you know
3:26
storytelling happens with your lyricism
3:29
but storytelling can also happen with
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the way that you present yourself well
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yeah what is the story you think you're
3:35
sharing right now if the way that you
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look
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with the haircut with the beard
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i feel like we also kind of have a stud
3:43
energy
3:44
with some of the outfits that i've been
3:45
seeing especially with the met i'm just
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saying he'll shoot a shot tracy be
3:49
careful we've seen i'm not shooting
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shots you're up six years in a
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relationship he's accusing me of
3:54
potentially shooting
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um
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i i'd say right now you know when i
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first came out there was a lot of um
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talk about yo he's dope which felt
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really good and since then the
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conversations expanded in great ways you
4:11
know maybe it's about my personality my
4:12
interviews other moments
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so i'm really excited at this moment to
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now take it back to the music so maybe
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that's what i'm giving off um
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you know i gotta i'm about to come out
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and i really just want to let the music
4:23
speak not that i don't have anything to
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talk about up here i'm just saying if
4:27
you're asking what i'm presenting like
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for me i can't wait for people to hear
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this music because um
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i want people to know that's what comes
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first for me is the music and that's
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what's going to keep me here yes it
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wants to be taken seriously yeah come
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home the kids miss you what does that
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mean bro
4:45
it was a phrase i was seeing a lot on
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the internet under my posts my fans were
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commenting that and then
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you know at first it was pretty
4:52
light-hearted and then i was sitting
4:53
with it and i realized i recorded so
4:55
much of my album
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away from home
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and i you know this has kind of swept me
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off my feet and taken me so many places
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that aren't kentucky
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and there's so many themes throughout
5:05
all these songs that reflect back to
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kentucky and what the experience is like
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to be from a place like that and go to
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go to london spend weeks in la and all
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this so
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it just felt like a fitting title and it
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encapsulates the era man i want to look
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back in 10 years and feel like
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the titles of the projects
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are a good description of where i was
5:23
and to me right now come home the kids
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miss you speaks for me
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jack carlo is here uh in the flesh
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usually when i see you as online it's on
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stage
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mostly on stage and um
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i've seen this growth you to me you you
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came from um
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humble beginnings in the rap as far as
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the rap
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spectrum you know goes you you i'm not
5:48
saying you were an underground artist
5:50
but you were a word of mouth artist that
5:51
folks was catching on now you're as
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popular if not more popular than 95 of
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the artists that are out there when you
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grow as an artist sometimes the fan base
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the original fan base
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doesn't grow with you you know and when
6:06
they see that success and they see that
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fame
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it could equate it to some type of
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backlash i've seen it happen with all
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i've seen it happen with most rappers
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yeah
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how do you deal with that when folks
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say uh he's not that great or he's just
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an average rapper with great hair or you
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know whatever it is they may say
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how do you process that
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i mean a lot of people i look up to i
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feel like receive those comments
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you know the internet
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has i grew up with it so i've been lucky
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enough to take notes on
6:36
you know what the blueprints can be how
6:38
people react to things you do so
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all any sort of negativity or any sort
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of skepticism i just chalk it up to
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where i'm at and you know the level i'm
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rising to
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there's days you know it gets under my
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skin a little bit but for the most part
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i can just kind of
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i can just kind of downplay it because
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if anything it lets me know we're moving
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up you know when they're making those
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type of comments but you know i'd like
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to think that my core fans have stuck
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with me you know maybe you lose people
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along the way but you know for the most
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part i think people can since i'm
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genuine and my evolution has felt
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natural to people you know not forced
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and you know i believe myself and i
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think people feel that so
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we're just going to keep going i saw a
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clip online um
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where you highlighted a group of
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individuals that were at your first
7:23
shows and just when it was like 10 12 15
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people in the crowd yeah in alabama in
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alabama then you caught them at a more
7:30
recent show and you put them front and
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center man what what do you keep in
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touch with fans like that or i try to
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i'd like to think i have a strong
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connection with my fans i mean
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my shows are such an exchange you know
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it's not
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watch me put on a show and enjoy it
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marvel at me like
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my songs are so conversational that it's
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almost like there's a conversation
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between me and my crowd going on so
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there's tons of moments in eye contact
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and just
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we're sharing something so
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i have this bond with my fans you know
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i think
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i had birmingham was my first ever like
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headline show outside of where i'm from
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there was 10 people there
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and it was just such a like in a room
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that could fit hundreds if not a
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thousand people and i had to walk out on
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stage
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and do a 30 40 minute set in front of 10
8:17
people and coax them into feeling
8:18
comfortable because they were all like
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damn we're the only people here
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so
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a few years later we do burn i did
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birmingham in the fall and we just sold
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it out instantly i mean it was
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just packed
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and
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i posted the picture of that 10 person
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show the same day like hey we're coming
8:37
back this is just a special full circle
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moment and while i was in the crowd
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i spotted luckily i looked at the
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picture today some of those people
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showed up in the same outfits they've
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worn four years before wow wow
8:48
to make sure i saw them and i saw them
8:50
and you know took moments to recognize
8:52
them and point them out but that i mean
8:53
that just gives you chills that's
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beautiful it's just like it's just it is
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beautiful it is yeah
8:59
that also makes me curious jack you know
9:00
there are some artists where we were
9:02
just speaking of kailani yesterday and i
9:04
saw scissor tweet a very similar
9:06
sentiment that kailani said yesterday
9:08
which is no offense but i make music for
9:11
myself all those tweets yeah and
9:14
anything else is just like a bonus but
9:17
then you also have artists and even like
9:19
content creators i'll see online that
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jump on like um instagram live and
9:24
they'll ask their fan base their
9:26
community what do you want me to create
9:28
what do you guys want yeah and i guess
9:30
it's maybe a difference between someone
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leaning more towards their artistry
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versus someone 50 50 looking at their
9:38
artistry also as a commodification as
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the business side
9:42
where do you fall in line with that are
9:44
you do you consider yourself 50 50
9:46
artist in business or do you consider
9:48
yourself someone who leans more on the
9:50
craft
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well i lean heavily on the craft you
9:54
know the only aspect of it for me that
9:55
is business is the fact that you know we
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have a movement coming out of a place
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that hasn't had a lot of massive
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movements
10:02
and you know i have a team of people
10:04
that
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i'm looking to continue to put in
10:06
position and i'm watching them thrive
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and work hard
10:09
and um
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you know help me grow and i'm helping
10:12
them grow so it's like it's like bigger
10:14
than just me yeah and so to me that is
10:16
the business aspect of it is you know we
10:18
want to secure ourselves and
10:20
you know feed back into the community
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but
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you know in terms of what they said
10:24
every artist is doing it if it's for you
10:26
it's for you for me
10:28
a course is a little bit of this it's
10:30
it's i'm indulging myself but
10:33
you know it's like i said it's a shared
10:35
thing you're doing a service to me my
10:36
music has gotten better when i started
10:38
considering the audience because
10:40
when i first started coming up i tell
10:41
people this all the time
10:43
i was
10:44
trying to prove i could rap so bad that
10:46
it wasn't about them it was about
10:47
it was about hey watch this you know i
10:49
had a chip on my shoulder watch this and
10:51
now it's about hey let's do this
10:53
together you know what i'm saying yeah
10:55
and so um it's more collaborative
10:57
my show has gone up since then and my
11:00
music you know when i keep the listener
11:02
in mind it's more fun for them
11:04
for sure and it's more fun for us
11:06
harlow come on give him when i say his
11:08
name you know what to do tonight jack
11:09
harlow
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you know what to do man you so you um
11:14
you a writer or you go in the studio and
11:17
just come off the top
11:19
my um the album i did before this one
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uh-huh that's what they all say i did a
11:23
lot of
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impromptu you know what i'm saying
11:26
feeling it out i think i just wanted to
11:28
catch pockets i wasn't catching when i
11:29
was writing this new album
11:32
got into my pen everywhere every record
11:35
because you know
11:36
there's something you can do when you're
11:38
freestyling that you can sort of dance
11:40
when you're punching in and out and you
11:41
can come up with pockets you might have
11:43
never come up with sitting on the couch
11:44
just riding
11:45
but you sacrifice
11:47
some sort of substance you sacrifice
11:50
some sort of cohesion or some thread to
11:52
the lyrics at least me
11:54
i'm at my best in terms of my writing
11:56
that's when i get my best bars off but
11:59
you know you catch fun pockets when you
12:00
freestyle let me let me ask him this
12:02
tracy because on this album um because
12:04
he released the track listing and
12:07
justin timberlake when i told tracy was
12:09
on the album i said lil wayne
12:11
i said drake yep you know uh
12:14
i said for real and it wasn't until i
12:16
said justin timberlake that tracy trump
12:19
heather you should have saw it it just
12:20
happened to be the last day but i was
12:22
reacting to
12:23
all of the guest features thank you but
12:25
justin timberlake is huge i mean
12:27
obviously all icons but the justin one
12:29
is like i think
12:30
the probably the most surprising yeah in
12:33
a great way like it's just um
12:35
it's just like whoa yeah it felt like a
12:37
plot twist yeah exactly you know what
12:39
i'm saying but it's fresh like everyone
12:40
wants to hear that what's your
12:42
relationship like you and justin it's
12:43
building that was one of the last songs
12:45
that got completed
12:47
and um he did it right in front of me in
12:49
the studio
12:51
humble character shows me a lot of love
12:53
i think he um
12:55
because he's able to give me game we're
12:57
not identical but you know we're
12:59
experiencing i got some parallels
13:02
you feel it
13:03
we see it
13:08
y'all both got beards now you know yeah
13:10
exactly
13:11
so he's been uh breaking me off with
13:13
some advice and
13:14
looking out for me and
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i i think people will be surprised at
13:18
the type of song it is
13:20
yeah i will be i didn't get the album so
13:22
i'll i'll definitely be sending it to
13:23
you no leaks man drama did it i know i
13:25
know i know i know that league hurt you
13:27
uh not emotionally i don't know
13:29
emotionally yeah yeah i don't think it
13:30
hurts you business wise any track with
13:32
drake oh [ __ ] i'm trying to get my my
13:35
feature
13:37
oh my gosh oh gosh but who was that
13:40
that's how to be right there why aren't
13:41
you here
13:43
you know why boo it's just so much going
13:45
on i miss you and i'm just sending you a
13:47
big hug i'm working from home today i'm
13:50
just sending you a big old hug i love
13:52
you you know that and i smile and i root
13:55
for you every single time i see you
13:57
every single time thank you so much um
13:59
just for all the reasons that sway and
14:01
tracy said we just remember day one you
14:04
know for us with you and so we can't
14:06
help but be happy for you but to say i'm
14:09
working but i'm not um but what are you
14:11
doing your day off i'm listening to you
14:13
with all this work work work so what's
14:15
the day off like for you i can't
14:17
remember
14:19
really
14:20
but i do want to tell you i respect you
14:22
i respect you having to hand your
14:23
business handle your business but when i
14:25
walked in here i was just looking around
14:27
for you and i just couldn't believe you
14:28
weren't here i wish you were here but i
14:30
can't wait till next time because you
14:31
know i'm coming back
14:32
kevin you're yes we we i gotta hug up on
14:34
you you know that you are family to me
14:36
love you too boy i know this guy man i
14:39
remember when i was younger smooth man
14:41
we used to have this formula everybody
14:43
can relate to this
14:45
if you shoot your shot at a hundred
14:46
beautiful women
14:50
we family
14:51
you're gonna get at least one
14:53
dude
14:55
i think i promised jack i think i
14:57
promised jack some chicken or cookies or
14:59
something like sure i mean this is this
15:01
is my don't worry you and i you and i
15:02
have an understanding
15:05
changed the whole
15:08
girls can't get a man
15:10
something what did justin tell you i
15:12
know both of you guys are obviously
15:14
caucasian and and um justin when he went
15:17
into r b you know this is it's always
15:19
that microscope saying with rap is
15:21
always the
15:22
question about the the white rapper the
15:24
whole nine what did he give you any
15:26
advice on how to navigate through those
15:27
narratives at all
15:29
um
15:30
we didn't dig into that specifically um
15:34
i just think there was an unspoken sort
15:36
of respect for what i'm doing it felt
15:37
like it just felt like he could tell i
15:39
was authentic that's the one thing he
15:40
kept
15:42
telling me is he he felt like he
15:43
believed me and that's in ours
15:46
and what we do is it's probably the most
15:48
important thing i feel like
15:49
speaking with conviction and rapping
15:51
with conviction so
15:52
he just wanted to um give me his stamp i
15:55
guess
15:56
the jt stamp
15:57
with wayne
15:59
i i might have stayed up late at night
16:01
i'm not sure if i would have got a lot
16:03
of sleep knowing that i got to jump on
16:04
the song with one of the illest lyricist
16:07
of all time mm-hmm like wayne got bars i
16:10
haven't even dissected yet
16:12
so prolific you got some on this too
16:15
does he he got some ones did y'all do it
16:17
together in the studio oh actually sadly
16:19
we didn't it was remote but you know it
16:22
was a direct you know it wasn't no
16:24
you talked to him though right what'd
16:25
you say to wayne bro this is why man
16:27
don't act like this [ __ ] is every day
16:28
that's a little wayne no it's it's
16:30
massive to me okay i got his i was at a
16:32
clippers game a few months ago and um
16:35
i saw him
16:37
courtside he was a few rows ahead of me
16:38
and i went up and tapped him on the
16:40
shoulder and i was like security almost
16:42
tackled me and then when it was nice
16:44
that me up and i was like let me get
16:46
your your new number
16:48
and we spent an entire quarter of that
16:50
game
16:50
texting back and forth about rap just
16:53
about
16:54
our love for like paragraphs back and
16:56
forth and just me asking him like how do
16:58
you rap so much like you know what
17:00
drives you to be in there so much and
17:01
just him telling me about how he started
17:03
so early and
17:04
um
17:06
how addictive he is to the craft and i
17:08
just wanted to take that as inspiration
17:10
because
17:11
you know he treats it like work and but
17:13
he loves it
17:14
and i just wanted to pull from that and
17:16
i sent him the song and he knocked it
17:18
out so quick he just shows me a lot of
17:19
love man he's really he's really warm
17:21
towards me and you know this is our
17:22
second one together so i got none below
17:24
for the goat that's what's up when
17:26
you're sending a track to
17:28
wayne to drake do you send it to them
17:31
with your verses already in there do you
17:34
have there so that you can see
17:36
what level you need to be at sometimes
17:38
sometimes you're like what do you think
17:39
of this beat
17:40
sometimes you know
17:42
i was lucky wayne was the only one i had
17:44
done remotely on this album and i like
17:46
being i like being in the room it's
17:48
really exciting but typically yeah you
17:51
might send a beat you might send a
17:52
concept
17:53
okay yeah
17:56
yeah maybe i'll get the album today i
17:58
could tune in
18:02
i have no doubt we can get it to you
18:03
ahead of time okay cool i won't leak it
18:05
at least you know where it came from if
18:06
it was
18:08
that would be comforting
18:09
so at least i know where it came from
18:11
enjoy it
18:12
world no congratulations though man and
18:15
this and what else i enjoy is heather
18:18
you said this recently about cardi b
18:21
how she's adjusted to the occasions
18:24
really well as her star started to rise
18:26
and you see her in all these great big
18:28
stages and
18:29
she always comes right with the right
18:31
footing i feel the same way about you
18:34
thank you you know
18:35
i see you embrace things um
18:38
and you do it the right way you keep a
18:40
very calm i'm looking at drama right now
18:43
because i like your disposition in
18:44
interviews you know this man has been
18:46
doing it
18:47
for some time so you know who you are i
18:50
even like the way you respond to
18:51
controversy
18:53
um
18:54
little nazix is somebody's the citizen
18:56
of this show you know when industry baby
18:57
came out the visuals from that created a
18:59
lot of controversy around it and i'm
19:02
sure people probably talked to you about
19:04
it right
19:05
did that surprise you at all
19:07
that people wanted to talk to me about
19:08
that well they they attached you to the
19:11
controversy
19:12
oh not at all not at all i know what was
19:14
coming with that but it's
19:17
it didn't surprise me but it also didn't
19:18
bother me you know okay i admire that
19:20
about little nazix you know how fearless
19:22
he is is something that i'd like to see
19:24
in myself
19:25
i think everyone's just attracted to
19:26
people that have traits that they want
19:28
to see in themselves so
19:29
little nazix is just
19:31
he's fearless yeah and i respect it
19:34
y'all hang out outside of red carpets
19:35
y'all do really well on red carpet
19:38
yeah it's the same energy outside of
19:40
them
19:41
y'all are a fun duo
19:44
very fun to watch you know we were just
19:46
talking about off mic before you came
19:48
when we were playing first class which
19:49
is [ __ ] explosive thank you and sway
19:52
remembers when i came in one day and i
19:54
was like bro did you see jack's
19:56
instagram like you put up a clip of
19:58
yourself in the studio just playing i
19:59
think it was 15 seconds if not a few
20:02
less and i was like it's about to go
20:04
viral before it officially even drops
20:06
and we were having a conversation with
20:08
swain and i just about the changing
20:11
life expectancy of a single considering
20:14
what can happen when tick-tock is
20:15
attached to it what can happen when
20:16
reels is attached to it pretty bizarre
20:18
right yeah and i wonder how much you
20:20
take that into consideration if it at
20:23
all puts more pressure on you to produce
20:26
more product if something can be played
20:28
within years more times than ever before
20:32
because content creators are using your
20:34
creation
20:35
ugh
20:36
i mean it's just like
20:38
i even hate that i hate just even
20:40
thinking about it that way
20:41
oh i mean i i consider these things but
20:44
when i'm in the studio that it's never
20:45
in in the back over the front of our
20:46
minds of just in terms of creating the
20:49
music once you have something you know
20:51
sometimes you're aware of like oh this
20:52
could work this way but it's not
20:54
affecting the art in any way um
20:56
and i'd like to think it it never will i
20:59
i've i've always been really hesitant to
21:01
snip at things and preview things i i
21:04
all my favorite artists they just come
21:05
with it they drop it and the world
21:07
experiences it at the same time and this
21:09
moment that's always been my philosophy
21:11
so even when i've been pushed to tease
21:13
i've refused and something about this
21:14
record just was like um
21:16
i just feel like we should just sprinkle
21:18
this
21:19
we just had a feeling like it was the
21:21
right one and
21:22
you don't have a good team drama is a
21:24
good example of someone i can go to for
21:25
council so
21:26
yeah we make these decisions together
21:28
and i feel like one let's pre let's see
21:29
what the world thinks yeah
21:32
jack harlow man
21:34
did
21:35
i did i did listen to the lyrics of uh i
21:38
was like where's my sound
21:42
what up
21:43
i said his name tone
21:45
you could tell he'd be in the studio a
21:46
lot he's like hold up that sounds like a
21:48
good time for some sound effects the the
21:50
lyric i'm paraphrasing from churchill
21:52
downs um
21:54
downs the one that leaked fortunately i
21:56
listened um
21:59
please listen more than once just mad at
22:00
the world
22:02
okay i'll listen 10 times
22:04
um there was a lyric uh i just thought
22:07
was interesting about the label didn't
22:09
think
22:11
i don't know how to lyric the legend
22:12
yeah that's still yeah it's about the
22:13
best lyrics man you've done this since
22:14
i've started coming up here i come up
22:16
here and you just
22:18
yeah it's about the exact type of legs
22:19
i'd want to be asking about okay
22:21
unfortunately i don't remember it not
22:22
just but but the light but the thank you
22:25
but the the lyric was about the label
22:26
didn't think yeah that abel used to
22:28
wonder how i'm supposed to stand next to
22:30
vert yeah probably never thought that i
22:32
would get these legs to work
22:33
yeah
22:34
break that down man
22:36
i just i vividly remember
22:38
signing
22:40
and um
22:44
just coming in while uzi was red-hot
22:47
and even having that time where i was
22:49
like standing next to john with my arm
22:51
around them and
22:52
they had their own drama going on and
22:56
i wouldn't say i was necessarily at odds
22:58
with uzi but like we didn't have a
22:59
relationship he was somewhere else i was
23:01
in atlanta in development his arm wasn't
23:03
around me like here's the new gin now
23:04
guy
23:05
um that's just naturally what it was
23:08
since then things have been smoothed
23:09
over with us and with the label and
23:10
everything but at the time
23:12
i felt like i was one in uzi's shadow in
23:15
regards to the label but two
23:17
that i felt like at atlantic there was
23:20
questions of like how could how is this
23:22
kid gonna follow up
23:24
who's he you know what i'm saying i just
23:25
think they weren't sure
23:26
if it was um
23:28
if i could be the one after uzi because
23:30
uzi was just such a
23:32
uzi a vibrant rock star you know what
23:34
i'm saying is just so and i just came in
23:36
you know like i came in on it i had my
23:37
glasses my hair was too long i couldn't
23:39
dress yet like people were just like you
23:41
know what who is this kid you know what
23:43
i'm saying so
23:44
um
23:45
i feel like i've worked really hard for
23:46
the love and respect i've gained
23:48
for even it started beyond that but that
23:50
is a period of time where i it just
23:53
wasn't cool to embrace me yet no one was
23:55
putting their arm around me except
23:57
a couple people the guys a generation
23:58
now like no one was like proud to take a
24:01
picture with me and say this is my guy
24:03
and um
24:04
now there's a lot of meat riding going
24:06
on
24:07
lots of meat riding no single alert
24:13
[ __ ] vegan
24:30
a lot
24:35
i'm curious jack does that impact um
24:38
your trust when it comes to meeting new
24:40
people like wondering what their
24:41
intentions are even folks who you see
24:44
change their minds i mean my trust has
24:46
always been low so i'm just
24:48
i
24:49
i can feel people out i try i trust my
24:52
gauge of people so i wouldn't say it's
24:53
in that space that affects more like
24:56
how i'm feeling now which that's where
24:58
you get raps like that like to me i love
25:00
that record i in the the silver lining
25:03
of that being out for you to listen to
25:05
is we can discuss that here because if
25:06
there was any song on the album that's
25:08
definitely one of the main ones that has
25:10
lyrics that i'd want to discuss with you
25:12
because it's like that's one of those
25:14
verses where i just
25:15
it's hard to get in the bag where you
25:17
just where the conviction is falling out
25:18
of your mouth like everything i said on
25:20
that it was just falling out of my mouth
25:22
and that's how i felt and it came from
25:24
my heart and it's like
25:25
sometimes just when you write something
25:27
it's just um like
25:29
you just want to kill him because of
25:31
what happened you know what i'm saying
25:32
you want to kill him because of what
25:33
you've done to get where you're at and
25:35
it's like i'm here you know what i'm
25:36
saying you can't take that from me like
25:38
i did all that i didn't skip any steps
25:40
to get here people want to call me an
25:41
industry plant people want to say he's
25:42
this or that or it was easy for me i
25:45
didn't skip any steps bro i did that
25:46
south by southwest showcase
25:48
i did 83c i did open mics i burnt cds i
25:51
passed them out i did everything that so
25:53
many of these people didn't do
25:55
and so for me that record is a chance
25:57
for me to say like and [ __ ] i'm here
25:59
now and i'm not going anywhere you know
26:00
what i mean say it i like that round of
26:02
applause that's the [ __ ] i wanted to
26:04
hear you talk up here jack harlow that's
26:06
real sometimes when i sit back and i
26:08
really let it register yeah what you say
26:11
after that sometimes when i sit back and
26:12
really let it register i did everything
26:15
i said i wouldn't set it first
26:17
manifestation yes the world's in denial
26:20
but they all know what i'm headed for
26:24
i got chills off that [ __ ]
26:26
i got chills off that hb but i got my
26:28
first priority jacket on so i'm not
26:30
gonna take it off i love that song yo
26:32
this guy
26:35
uh db you want to jump in man jack
26:37
carlos here
26:39
jack when i heard that you were going to
26:40
be involved in this white man can't jump
26:42
remake you know the uh movie fan inside
26:44
of me because i was only about uh
26:46
11 when that movie originally came out
26:48
but it was such a huge thing you know
26:50
woody and wesley and so now it made me
26:52
wonder about the younger generation who
26:55
a lot may not have even seen the
26:57
original one but i hate the excuse when
26:59
people say it's because i'm young like
27:01
there were so many artists rappers you
27:03
know musicians movies that we would see
27:06
that came out before we were born and we
27:08
didn't have access to the internet and
27:10
so now it's sort of like people have
27:12
access to all types of information and
27:14
projects and artwork and things like
27:15
that you know if you don't know the
27:16
history about drama getting caught up
27:18
with the feds and mixtape [ __ ] then you
27:19
don't understand why it was so great
27:21
that he was on tyler's album you know
27:22
what i'm saying like like the
27:23
significance of that drama is like damn
27:26
dude i was like that's why i wasn't at
27:27
the mic no but i'm but i'm i'm talking
27:30
about like just knowing the history and
27:31
why certain things you know you just
27:33
think like oh he just has a guy hosting
27:35
his mixtape like no there's a
27:36
significance to that and an appreciation
27:38
about it so being a part of this new
27:40
version like have you had a greater
27:42
appreciation of original artworks or
27:44
wherever something was inspired by as
27:45
well nope
27:48
nothing at all nothing at all no i'm
27:49
joking
27:51
my heart just broke a little bit i just
27:52
wanted to say that because you went in i
27:54
was like damn is this going to the
27:55
question or is he just getting this [ __ ]
27:56
off
27:57
i feel you i feel you i feel you um you
28:00
know what's crazy is i never saw the
28:02
movie i remember i read that yeah yeah i
28:04
said that the other day so when um when
28:06
i got there i was like damn i should
28:08
probably watch that [ __ ]
28:09
and uh it's i totally understand why
28:12
it's classic you know i i think maybe i
28:14
in my head i've written it off like from
28:15
the title to maybe the movie poster i
28:17
was like oh it's just like a silly
28:19
kind of comedy and it's comedic but the
28:21
dialogue is just so classic and
28:24
it's cool so yeah it's gonna be fun to
28:26
you know it's a new story it's a new
28:28
movie is what a lot of people don't know
28:30
but the new generation to get a version
28:32
that i i think it'll be tight man i
28:34
think it'll be tight and i think you're
28:35
right you know i like to go back
28:37
personally right i like to go back as
28:38
much as i can there's things i miss
28:40
and if you weren't alive
28:42
you're gonna miss some stuff but
28:44
when you do your research it just makes
28:46
your perspective so much wider you know
28:48
right can you even grab the rim though
28:49
dude
28:51
wow what i'm saying
28:54
athlete did you grab the rails
28:56
yeah
29:07
let me do this without grabbing the rim
29:09
or at least without cutting the editing
29:10
to make it look like it looks like
29:12
okay i did you know i've dunked in my
29:15
day jack harlow wow i said his name a
29:17
basketball
29:20
oh my gosh
29:22
not a donut people people don't watch me
29:24
too this is hip-hop thing really
29:26
destroyed my athletic legacy
29:28
it's worth it thanks for your sacrifice
29:30
thank you man i sacrificed the nba to be
29:32
here with you guys i appreciate that
29:33
ain't no problem man but congratulations
29:35
on that though thank you yeah absolutely
29:37
i can see you doing more movies uh come
29:40
home the kids miss you
29:43
this has been like a reunion for us well
29:45
to see you here today and title's
29:47
fitting them right come home the kids
29:50
miss you
29:51
and um congratulations again i can only
29:54
congratulate you yes continuously
29:57
you're a good guy bro so are you man
29:59
thank you how are you and i know how
30:00
fame works i know how celebrity works
30:03
there's always a it's an action and it's
30:05
a reaction it's always things there's
30:07
always stipulations in a celebrity
30:09
contract
30:10
[Applause]
30:11
lots of fine prints you can't just be
30:13
famous to be famous no more you got to
30:15
carry a lot of [ __ ] with it and what's
30:18
up yeah right you know
30:20
and as you navigate through it man stay
30:22
yourself and keep growing and stay this
30:24
path man congratulations man jack carlo
30:27
man from south by southwestern now
30:29
another one down another one right wait
30:31
to come back i hope you're here next
30:32
time heather i pray double video i
30:34
promise i will be there
30:36
okay he said he prays love you too no we
30:39
i got food for him i got to talk to him
30:41
about his haircut
30:47
tell him the name of his hair care brand
30:50
he denied me the last time i told him
30:52
that i wanted to be jack halo because
30:55
his hair is so good what did i i didn't
30:57
like that
30:58
no you told me not right now he was like
31:01
having not right now i was like it's so
31:03
good i think we're getting there i think
31:04
we're getting there we get yeah i think
31:06
it's about time here soon i don't know
31:08
about the name but i like it see
31:11
progress
31:12
you already got the name like the hair
31:15
is already kind of in your name i'm
31:17
gonna talk to you over some cookies
31:18
you're gonna be right
31:20
are you in your top
31:22
10 rappers today
31:24
absolutely top five
31:26
yeah
31:27
top three
31:30
no that's interesting hmm so you got
31:34
work to go who's those three who's the
31:35
three
31:36
uh think about i'll text you text it to
31:38
me yeah okay all right i like that all
31:41
right you don't want to say no names
31:42
because i know one of them got to be on
31:44
this album right two of them
31:46
who would be the third i'll text you
31:48
okay all right
31:50
the sixth person gonna be mad they make
31:52
the album okay
31:53
all right man hey uh
31:55
i'll send you a message on facebook okay
31:57
let me see the nails we're about to play
31:58
nail tech so yeah give me that nail
32:00
technique okay let me see your nails
32:02
first
32:03
yeah do you do your own or i don't i get
32:06
them done though when was the first time
32:07
you got them done what made you do it
32:09
uh a woman i was with
32:12
she was getting hers done she's like why
32:13
don't you do it i was like what
32:15
and then she
32:16
just wiped all the toxic masculinity out
32:19
of me mm-hmm and let me do it i was like
32:22
oh i get it i get it i see the appeal
32:24
yeah you know um i see you you look like
32:27
i did mine huh low key yeah i do lowest
32:30
very low
32:31
whatever tracy all right this is jack
32:33
carlo man thanks for coming by brother
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