Jack Harlow has broached a very difficult, but growing, topic about sexual predators in his new video for the single, “Gang Gang Gang.”
The video, which dropped on Wednesday (June 14), features Harlow telling a cautionary tale in the vein of Eminem’s “Stan.” In the song, he talks about his friend Marcus, who had been slapped with several rape charges after allegedly raping a bunch of girls in Target. He then talks about his friend Kevin, who’d also been charged with rape.
And while he initially promises to “ride for his dogs/ die for his dogs,” he ultimately comes to realize that some things are just inexcusable and indefensible.
“Truthfully, it’s family ’til it can’t be/ Gang ’til it ain’t twins, but it depends,” he raps. “Years of comraderie/ suddenly disappear/ almost like you never were here.”
Check it out below.
Jack Harlow has a lot of fans around the world, and one of them includes Kendrick Lamar, who gave the White Men Can’t Jump star his flowers for his latest album, Jackman.
Speaking on the Rap Radar podcast in an episode that dropped on Wednesday (June 15), Harlow revealed that the praise from his musical peers helped him overcome some of the frustrations he felt from his biggest detractors, who often accuse him of cultural appropriation or being a “culture vulture.”
“I think you have to have passion, and I think you have to be a fan,” he said. “You have to be a fan of the genre, and love it. And I love the craft, and I love chasing ‘getting better.’ Of course, there’s some frustrations with not being understood, but, you know, it’s also exciting to think, ‘Let me see how I can get better.’
“But of course, there was just a lot of excitement in recording the songs, and thinking, ‘Damn, I can’t wait for them to hear this shit.’ Because I know they’re going to like it, and sure enough, it resonated.”
He continued: “That’s why I do it, because I was waiting for a muthafucka to just tell me I’m dope. [Then] I ran into Kendrick at the Met, and it was like a few days after the album dropped, and he was like, ‘Yo. Shit is incredible.’ And he gave me enough props that I could have just walked home. I didn’t even want to meet anyone else.”
