when i speak to bro he's he's in tune you know what i'm saying and he's also you know one of my idols so i'm very interested in a friendship you know what i'm saying i'm interested to learn from him i'm interested in him telling me the truth and you know just hearing his thoughts on things but after we met he just totally exceeded my expectations for what type of person he was big boy a beautiful day in the neighborhood ladies and gentlemen now i've had this man in the neighborhood before but this is the first
time he's been in the neighborhood because we've been on zoom but we got jack harlow in the neighborhood jack harlow welcome to the neighborhood man thanks for having me man just feel like deja vu huh i ain't got a lot of people we already did one recording for the podcast you know you don't me bro i keep it real with my audience you don't argue best believe that but really real talk man welcome to the neighborhood congratulations bro on what i feel is a great album thank you so much and i feel like bro you
put together a great body of music and i could tell that you you really are conscious of the material that you're trying to release you know what i'm saying super hey man so when when you do go into and for one i really love the title where does the title and and i know the answer to it but where does the title come from yeah i mean i got to thank my fans for that one really just brought us closer because they were commenting come home the kids miss you under all my posts so i
was like wow that's just a wonderful sentence really and so it was the fans that said come home yeah they inspired it they inspired it i was seeing it online and i really was beautiful okay because man i must be on the wrong page or something bro because i thought that it was like something from your mom at first that you you remixed that um nope you're lying i'm not no you gotta be bro my mom wants me to come home too but she doesn't say the kids miss you you know right right she knows
kentucky but not she doesn't say it no stop that she doesn't she didn't say come home mom misses you or anything like that she yeah she does but i'm saying the album title didn't come from that no [ __ ] that excuse me i gotta be right so it was the fans how did that come about they were commenting it everywhere and i was like wow that's amazing so i just i just rocked with it and i spent so much time away from kentucky over the last year making the album i was like this encapsulates
this era perfectly wow so so was it just people from kentucky are just kind of went wild and everything was a worldwide phrase really though with the success of you know people knowing your name and people understanding who jack harlow is is there a different kind of vibe when you go in to do a new album because now you're compared to your own material hmm you know what's funny is this is my second album but so many people think it's my debut which is a blessing why because people are still i'm over two years in
like people being aware of me and people are still treating me like yo we don't know his ceiling he's he's fresh he's up and coming like let's see what he has to say so it's crazy i feel like this album is the first album that on a wide cultural level that people will be comparing like does it feel different how do you mean like does it feel different compared to your last work as far as yeah cause it's better and it's um i'm just i was so much more particular you know my ear just continued
to get more tuned and you know on the last album i would pick beats out of packs i'd rap on them and then we just bounce them out um and i you know i still cared a lot on the last album but you just every year or six months you find new things to care about that you didn't care about before so this time i'm like oh no no change that snare or um i don't like these chords they're giving me the wrong feeling you know so we really fine-tuned this album to a place i've
never done with any music and where does that come from you think jack does it does does it come from you making sure you put out the best material also mixed with a little bit of you know people are really listening to you different as well i mean the stakes feel higher but also like i said your ear gets more tuned and you just get you know say say the audience wasn't growing as you get deeper into anything like i don't care if you build model trains like you probably start to notice something like right
oh i want to change the trees around the around this part of you know what i'm saying the details become more and more clear like i've always said it wouldn't surprise me if in 10 years i'm mixing my album right you know what i'm saying because i'm just so every it's just more and more and more and more so you just discover more things you suddenly you hear something you're like what is that oh i want i actually i want to change that i don't like how that is can you listen to any old material
and are you critical of your music i am but i mean i'm at peace yeah yeah yeah but i'm critical i mean if you go back far enough like literally i'll start crying right out of pain from hearing it right but but at that point when you first put it out you weren't like oh man or even just demos or just for the homies like man this is painful listen to this no i thought i always thought it was it yeah i always thought every release from age 13 to now was gonna be what blew
me up yeah and that's why if you go back all my music video singles feel like an introduction to jack they feel like all right well i'm coming through the door this time they're gonna feel me right and it took longer than i thought it was over and over again and then a bigger group of people would feel me but it really wasn't until what's popping that i had what i thought what i was gonna hey man and when you do talk about something like that there are so many man i'm on now i'm on
now i'm on now what kept you from or what keeps you going when you think like man either somebody's listening i'm on the radio i got a deal you know people like what keeps you going when you think is going to happen and it doesn't quite happen the way you thought it was going to be i think i've been lucky enough that even though it didn't explode how i thought there was enough gained and my fan base grew and enough happened to say okay we're making forward momentum i was taking tiny steps on the way
up finally i got a big step but those tiny steps are actually a lot of times more valuable because if you start with a big step it's hard to make another one hey man and i can see and you can hear that in the music you know what i'm saying because there's a lot of tuition into the school of experience that people don't see you know you you can hear it and you could tell that that you in love with your craft and you could tell also what you're speaking about it that you do want
to continue to learn even when you say man in 10 years i probably may be mixing my own album which i know it'll probably be in five you know what i'm saying because it seems like that's where you're going how did you first get like into hip-hop like what was your introduction i always said my mom really um she um she deferred my first memories her buying late registration on cd and playing it in the car how did that bond you guys this love of music how did did it change your relationship we used to
play beats in the car when i was really young and we were freestyled together yeah yeah that's dope my mom's a [ __ ] really but it deserves to be said and censored because yeah she is that yeah so so mom's introduces you to hip-hop right and you get this love for hip-hop when do you go from just being a person that love hip hop to saying i think i i think i can do this so early i was probably 11 or 12. yeah i just i was i liked writing i wasn't allowed to play
video games as a kid so i only read so i became articulate at a really early age and i liked writing in school and then when you know you become a pre-teen you get introduced to hip-hop on a heavy level and you're not just hearing it by chance you're really like ooh going out and looking for it i mean by the time when i'm in 20 in 2009 hip-hop is dominant you know what i'm saying like easily you know it's already been hot for years obviously but like it's now we're hitting that counterculture period where
everyone's listening to it you know it's just it's like the biggest thing in the world and that's 13 years ago for real so um it just was perfect timing for me and i was like oh this is like the waviest thing i can do the same way i think kids were got into rock in the 60s like it was just what was wavy this is was wavy so i was like this is me when you talk about like listening to it or your mom got you into it and it's a difference between loving something and
then going to your parents your peers and saying this is what i want to do right is it is it a slow roll before you tell your mom or you tell your parents what you want to do or did they know and did they believe you when you said i want to be an artist i think i mean when i was really young they were very open to whatever you know if i was passionate about something they saw that as a plus but they couldn't bank on it being my career at 12. right yeah yeah
and even even me as a parent like you know they still wanted my grades to be good they still wanted me to go to college they still wanted all that it wasn't until i turned when i moved to atlanta and grinded it out and got signed is when they're like oh okay so i think by the time their faith grew year by year but when i was 19 they're like he's gonna be okay really yeah how old are you when you moved to atlanta are you 19 then or i'm 19 or 19 yeah and you
got up and left with who i left with my best friend urban wyatt my photographer and my producer what made you go to atlanta it's just the closest big market from kentucky right six hours and you know we'd take trips down there do open mics do whatever it took and it's just the closest one and you remember in like 2016 2017 red hot i mean atlanta is still producing all of it but like right then it was just like thug was hot and uzi was coming out of mean street at the time you know i
signed a generation now and so looking at you know my hub mean street i was like wow this is where it all happens how do you put yourself in such a heated position though you know because sometimes we don't want to jump in the fire you know and of course you know it there wasn't too many people probably looking for you in kentucky you know what i'm saying so you got to go to it but you went right to the fire yeah i mean i've never wanted this to be a niche thing or something over
on the side where i'm making like underground stuff for a small community enjoy i like i want to make music the world loves and pays attention to and is aware of so jumping into the fire felt like second nature i mean i was i was nervous and i was going into studios and i was intimidated by other artists because they were just freestyling and i was writing and i learned a lot though i mean atlanta molded me into the artist i am now like just like a lot of my confidence and experience like i feel
like i come out here to la and uh i meet a lot of kids out here that are like famous and you know they got their thing going on but like i feel like i went through something different to get where i'm at yeah you know what i'm saying just as an artist special and and before we get into a lot of the album but even on harleezy and i and i've asked this to a lot of people man and it's in my book as well but i always talk about i got this thing while
i say the enough's right and i don't and i don't know if i ever talk to you about it but there's these enoughs and my enough sorry you know i got to be business enough i got to be street enough i got to be corporate enough and not that anybody put it on i got to be black enough i got to be hip-hop enough i got all these enough and then when i heard harleezy i'm listening to your enough and i know that there's more enoughs but did you feel the enough's of man i got
to be hip-hop enough you know i'm going into these open mic nights am i dope enough are they going to trip off is my skin tone dark enough where that what were your enoughs going in that's a great question man thank you the [ __ ] i do sorry about that i would say yeah um yeah i mean so much imposter syndrome came early on and it's like what do you say okay google that for me but i'm just going to show you but you just let it off you know what that means imposter syndrome
it's like people like oh imposter says oh okay my bad oh you let it run together i thought you know what i'm saying like i thought you thought it was one word oh man hey man i was lost i ain't gonna lie to you and people would have saw that and i would've like shook my head and they would have been like man big don't know what he just said yeah man it is incredible that's the first thing yeah man hey i'm gonna keep it real with you bro i don't need nothing from you you
know what i'm saying i don't need nothing from you man that's what i do man i keep it real so my jamaican brother uh so you say the impostor syndrome right all right speak on that i mean i so much of it had to do with the fact that i'm white and i know it's a black genre and you know i've continued to get more comfortable in my skin as i get older but i'm sure it's like i think it's something in the back of every white white rapper's mind that's like never truly goes away
you know what i mean like it can get minimized but you know i think it's something i just have never like highlighted or leaned into or battled against or hid from and i think that's the success i've had is like i'm a white guy like it's okay you know what i'm saying like and i'm authentic to it and i love hip-hop and that's really what i'm coming with and i grew up on it and that's all it is for me but yeah early on it was always i think you put a prayer am i hip-hop
enough right are they gonna believe me you know what i mean and so for me that's why i think as an artist i've never become a character right i've never like played into different personas or this or that because it was so important to me almost to a level i might may have been overcompensating for a while just be jack harlow you know what i'm saying be as authentic as you can that's the only way it's going to work and speak with conviction and tell the truth to me the key has always been if i
tell the truth i feel like i can win amen and and i do feel you on that and this is a broad stroke but but even with with us as people you know what i'm saying you'll sit down and you'll say in black and brown households whenever you go do something we're like oh man we got to be twice as good we got to be three times as good there's just there's just a different jacket that we got to wear yeah and i feel and not comparing but similar to there's a different jacket that you
had to wear you know what i'm saying like somebody else could probably walk in and be trash but they could be like oh well you know but you walk in if you if you you got to walk in extremely tighter well i always tell people it's a double-edged sword because there's pros and cons that come with it so i have that's why i've never leaned on the like see how much harder it is for me right because it's like because there's so much that serves you with being white like just the fact that i am
dope me being white it's like it's a novelty because there's fewer me you know what i'm saying so it's like it's like i'm a it's like i'm a gym you know what i'm saying but then there's the side you're talking about so to me i've always just said just cancel each other out but you know what i get to from you bro and i think it's it's because we've seen so many different shades in the game like i don't get white rapper like that's not your intro you know what i'm saying people say jack harlow
you know so so so yeah so just just take that and then when your material it's like that's what that's what really gets people what does it sound like what does it do for me and i think what your album bro is that you satisfied and checked off way more boxes than you know than what anybody else could be tripping off of because i like i said bro i think you have a great album thank you so much and i think you put together a great body working hard on it so i appreciate it but
you can tell too though bro and and take every compliment that we give to you you know cause i'm only gonna do about three more of them good and then after that i'll look forward to all three you know what i'm saying now you were so do you drink now or the drinking is done done it's done damn since when since um 2020. damn how do you stop drinking when everybody else was drinking more i just was focused and it sort of became a thing where i was proud of it and then when 3am rolls
around and like everyone's like it's time for bed i feel like my homework's done i feel like i'm gonna wake up tomorrow and feel good so there's a lot of you feel there's moments of course where you're like that warmth in my stomach will be really nice right now if i could just have a drink and i could get what y'all would be amazing but i've it's changed my life right i mean my career has gotten so i have to attribute some of it to that right but you know there's so many times where we
put this and that you know we put the vip with the drink we put the man we gotta celebrate give me a drink that's true you know and there's so much to say right it stacks up and then you everybody and you don't you might not have a problem you might not feel like you're depending on it but once you're in the heat of this every night there's a reason every night there's a dinner and it's like i have a drink and then there's something after the dinner and then you did something people like come
on you gotta have a drink you did this you know what i'm saying and then suddenly you look up and you drink every night for two weeks yeah and it's like had you had those nights in those moments um yeah i never i never had an issue i never i never was too far no i'm dead ass i'm dead ass yeah same i'm dead ass i'm sane um i never had an issue like that but i could feel it's a slippery slope do you feel you have to take care of your drunk homies now or
people around you i just leave them like drake yeah i always got to take care of people yeah yeah if anyone's your homie you should take care of him that's how i see it take care of drake the derby oh he's straight yeah taken care of yeah drake is good yeah he can handle himself no i heard i don't know if this is real but he have someone that if he's drunk they say hey you know he drink it they get drunk for oh god you know what i'm saying like yeah yeah he has he
has a drunk man he has a designated drink he has a drunk man man so when he drink that other person gets drunk it's a it's a millionaire thing you wouldn't know about it you know what i'm saying this dude over here it's hard to look at him he's saying you are hard to watch bro if you ever called in sick and he has a girlfriend bro can you believe it i can't yeah he said i can't i know man me too yeah i can't believe it how many people come in here and join him
yeah man oh wait what are you talking about the whole crew but yeah no i'm talking about how many times does a guest say myself come in here and join in yes because that's out of pocket you mean like you no you're not saying he can't you can't have a girlfriend you just said that no i said i can totally believe it i'm sure she's beautiful she is man way more beautiful like why is she with them right all the real what happened all the real ones got a girl that's more beautiful than them there
you go bro hold on man who told you who told you bro don't worry i haven't seen her and she loved your album too she introduced me to a lot of children wow man yeah hey dude i know when i walk with my queen people gotta be like how the [ __ ] did that happen you know and she loves me you know what i'm saying and she was with me when you know i was over 500 pounds at one point yeah i finally saw the entourage episode oh really oh so you know my work
too yeah yeah man do you have a podcast you want me to come on and be an uh guest as soon as i start one yeah yeah man you should get one man i'll come on the dude that'd be a great podcast while you're here before we get into anything else anything you want to ask me ask him about his star story you got a star huh i wasn't going to bring that up yeah man but you know the same way when you say there's accolades and there's those steps yeah man i got i got
a star on a hollywood walker oh you're a legendary yes chris and you know what you let other people say that you know what i'm saying now do i feel legendary yes you know yes i do but uh but it's always good to let other people say it man you know what i'm saying bro yeah yeah it is insane to be a legend there's a lot of things that you got to carry to be legendary and i'm gonna tell you man you are on your way thank you to being a legend i appreciate that especially
from a radio hall of famer man you knew that too huh oh man can we not make this about me man you know what i'm saying here we are celebrating your album celebrating your success man and you just give back to the community man thank you so much you're the greatest man you're the greatest hey man dude let me tell you homie like if i didn't have these like little black marks on my face i'm blushing right now i'm i'm yeah i'm blushing man so thank you bro i appreciate it it's not just it's not
just the career stuff though bro like everyone talks about what a great father you are too man that's just what i hear take your time big take your time thank you brother yeah i grew up without my dad man yeah you're amazing thank you you're amazing no doubt you better keep all this so talk to me about your relationship how does this relationship with drake come together man hey man you're over there and i'm like man no no but how does this relationship come together with drake man uh organically yeah that's dope yeah you know
i've looked up to him for years so i think i first met him in 2019 at a party and he just briefly gave me props and then since then we just seen each other along the way i went to toronto in the fall did a show we linked talked up there we just slowly got to know each other more and um i think i can really genuinely say we formed a real friendship you could see that bro yeah bromance you can see it is that hard to do now though with so many people wanting to
be next to you so many people just wanting you i don't want to be next to him he want to be next to drake well i think they want to be next to each other well [ __ ] i'll take either one of them go ahead sorry about that but that has to be hard to uh form organic friendships now uh yeah but you you have a gauge and when i speak to bro he's he's in tune you know what i'm saying and he's also you know one of my idols so i'm very interested in
a friendship you know what i'm saying i'm interested to learn from him i'm interested in him telling me the truth and you know just hearing his thoughts on things but after we met he just totally exceeded my expectations for what type of person he was and we just clicked bro we just totally clicked so it's fun to watch hey man when you were at that nba game the refs yeah yeah man dude the the refs on mike they were like uh who's jack harlow right who's jack harlow everyone of course don't know you you know
what i'm saying when you hear that is that funny to you yeah it was hilarious yeah i thought it was iconic right it is iconic yeah yeah they just put your name out there but you know it's a trip they know who you are now yeah they did yeah and my thing is too man no matter how long i've been in the radio i was like man i haven't met everyone and i get people every day that don't you know and you don't assume everybody know who you are but they like i get people say
i just started listening to you or i was out over the weekend with my family and it was four people that had no idea what i did i was taking pictures and they were like oh so what are you doing i was like oh i do i do radio i do television you know what i'm saying i got jack harlow coming next week i didn't say that but i just want you to feel good about it it worked yeah it did there it is right there well i probably shouldn't put the disclaimer on it but
yeah but yeah just keep working you know and then every nba ref gonna know who you are i mean that was my goal [Music] man people want grammys the people want you know but they forget the reps yeah man they forget that you ever made a sex tape yeah really yeah i mean it's a new generation yeah it's true oh you calling me old school i've seen yours i know you ain't old school hey man let me tell you you're blessed thank you bro i appreciate that man but we get blessed by you yeah personality
and everything not blessed you're not not totally blessed you know what i'm saying but natalie have you made a sex tape yeah we have yeah nice do you still have it that was adorable i know it was um no i think i think i deleted it i did the same all mine are just gone i think i we watched it once and then i was like all right we got to make sure that i remember i had a tape and it was a tape tape you know what i'm saying but them little ass tapes and
i put it up on uh like an armoire or whatever the [ __ ] that furniture piece is called and when i went to donate it jose found the tape on top and handed me the tape back can you imagine if the centimeter peter would have been out there you know what i'm saying like hell yeah [Music] how do you bless a woman though because i'm pretty sure there's a lot of ladies that want to get at you how do you feel how do they get at you though dms yeah like it's crowded in there
so yeah i don't go you know you know how it goes [Laughter] i'm not saying there's tons of women i'm just saying it's tons of you know people looking for opportunities yeah people want to talk yeah um and so i you know i check every once in a while but it's just it's just flowing for me i like a girl next door man you know i like a uh i like a girl that works at a bookstore i like a flight attendant i like you know i like a girl that you know it's just can
keep me connected to the right man have you ever done dating apps any of them swipe right maybe when i was like 18 or 17 i jumped on bumble and tinder for a little bit but even i was still in my hometown and i was well known at that point so i had to dead it yeah girls at bookstores and things nurses i love nurses when i was oh yeah when i was over 500 pounds i saw a lot of nurses i remember that you know what i'm saying i like girls like [ __ ]
heartbeat you know what i'm saying you know what i'm saying heartbeat and some interest yeah yeah thank you brother you know there's not like uh you know i don't have a lot of choices you know what i'm saying i didn't have a lot harder on yourself man hey man the moment i heard snoop dogg come in but he wasn't like listed as like a feature how did that come about how did he just jump on real quick and gave you so much like um compliments to like on the track yeah i wanted it to be
a surprise and i felt like when i heard the beat i could hear snoop dogg on it and so i brought it to him i went to his studio and he did that in one take he's like you just want me to talk on it i was like yeah he went in there and said that and then he was like how was that i was like it's perfect man you would have been you would have been g be like man can you go back in one more time i would have done it but he's perfect
perfect man everything he says is incredible hey man we yeah man that's that that that's my guy right there i believe it yeah real talk man but i want to thank you for coming into the neighborhood bro i wish we had more time with you god willing you'll come back and hang out with us absolutely and really man it's a pleasure to finally meet you likewise thank you mike what a blessing man thank y'all you're loving yourself god bless you man and for real i hope you come back and you get a chance to hang
out with us man and i wish you nothing but success thank you i enjoy your album bro i see how hard you're working man and i cannot wait to continue watching this journey today believe that man jack harlow in the neighborhood big boys [Music]
