Jack Harlow's Crowd Doesn't Know His Own Lyrics

BYLavender AlexandriaPublished on June 23, 20231219 Views

US rapper Jack Harlow performs during a 'Global Citizen' concert in Paris on June 22, 2023. International artist headlined the bill for a concert for the planet on June 22, 2023 at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, as part of the New Global Financial Pact Summit organised by French President. (Photo by Anna KURTH / AFP) (Photo by ANNA KURTH/AFP via Getty Images)

Jack Harlow was met by a pretty weak response from the crowd at a recent show.

Last night Jack Harlow performed at the Power Our Planet concert put on by Global Citizen. The star-studded event featured performances from Billie Eilish, Lenny Kravitz, H.E.R, and Jon Batiste among others. Jack Harlow also took the stage and may have expected more from the crowd than they were prepared to give him. He tried to do a classic live performance move and start off his song "First Class" without the instrumental while rapping the lyrics himself. The trouble came when he tried to hand it over to the crowd to finish the lyrics. Despite the song's massive sales numbers, the crowd in attendance totally left Harlow hanging.

"First Class" run at number one was less than a year ago. But Jack Harlow got a taste of the industry's short attention span when many at his show had no idea what the words were. Thankfully, he played the incident off well and the crowd seemed to catch up once the beat dropped. 2023 has been particularly unkind to new rap music. The year is almost halfway through and there hasn't been a number-one rap song or album. Despite being over a year old "First Class" is still the most recent rap song to spend multiple weeks atop the chart. Drake's "Jimmy Cooks" and Nicki Minaj's "Super Freaky Girl" each topped the charts for one week last year.

Jack Harlow's Underwhelming Crowd

Like many other celebs, Jack Harlow is in Paris this week celebrating Paris Fashion Week. He posted some pictures of what he's been up to, including sporting an all-black Givenchy fit. He's also been pretty consistent at delivering new material for fans recently. His new album Jackman came out back in April. He released a music video for the song "Gang Gang Gang" last week after teasing it on social media. It's the second video so far from the surprise-released project.

He's also been dealing with a recent beef with Machine Gun Kelly. In a recent freestyle, MGK took issue with Jack Harlow claiming to be the best white rapper since Eminem. What do you think of the underwhelming crowd response to Jack Harlow's performance? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria

Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.