Jack Harlow always manages to hit a home run when it comes to dropping music but unfortunately, he also faces a lot of slander over his success as many believe it is due to the color of his skin. The ‘Whats Poppin’ hitmaker’s close rapper pal Lil Uzi Vert recently shed light on similar lines as he extended his support to Harlow saying he got no white privilege.
 
Lil Uzi Vert surprised a bunch of fans after he hopped on the TMZ Celebrity Tour bus. When asked about his close pal Jack Harlow, the 26-year-old decided to clear some facts which have been doing rounds on the Internet for quite some time. The ‘Eternal Atake’ hitmaker said that Jack Harlow is a great rapper and he did not understand where the hate was coming from.
 
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‘He’s signed to Black people’

Lil Uzi Vert while speaking to TMZ about the hate Jack Harlow has been getting made it clear that race had nothing to do with the latter’s success. The multiple-platinum rapper said Harlow is “signed to black people!”. For the unversed, Jack Harlow is signed to Atlantic Records. Jack Harlow became a hot gossip after many on the Internet found out he was white when he managed to break through in the industry.
 
Jack Harlow aka Jackman Thomas ‘Jack’ Harlow is a Kentucky-based rapper. The young artist began rapping at the age of 12 and released several YouTube videos and mixtapes of his raps. Despite catching the attention of several record labels, Jack initially chose to go solo before eventually signing on to Generation Now and Atlantic Records.
 
 

‘Certain responsibility that comes with being a white man in a Black genre’

In an interview with Billboard in December 2021, Jack Harlow shared his valuable opinion on how he feels being a white man in a Black genre. “I’m not a novelty act,” said the rapper adding, “There is a certain reality that I am white, and I think there will always be something attached to that. No matter how embraced I am, there will never be a day that I’m Black.”
 
He added, “With that being said, there’s a certain responsibility that comes with being a white man in a Black genre, and there’s certain things that have me regarded differently. But there is something exciting about skipping over any barriers that might be there and creating unity.”