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Hip-Hop Lives Here
The Kid LAROI is taking fans behind the scenes of his life and his rise to fame in his forthcoming documentary, KIDS ARE GROWING UP.
Set to be released on Amazon Prime on February 29, the “Stay” singer dropped a preview on Wednesday (February 21). According to a press release, the documentary explores his rapid rise “from an unknown musician living in Australia to a teenage global superstar selling out his hometown arena in three years.”
In addition to never-before-seen footage of LAROI and his late friend and collaborator Juice WRLD, the doc will also feature commentary from Post Malone and insight into the making of the 2021 hit “Stay” with Justin Bieber.
Check out the trailer below:
In November, the singer joined Apple Music’s Zane Lowe to promote his new album THE FIRST TIME, and it’s here that he reflected on his time around the late rapper in 2019.
“That was big bro, but I was 15 and he was 20,” he began. “So there is a dynamic of, as a kid, you’re a fan and you’re like, now this guy I guess would be big bro. And now I get to travel everywhere and there’s just that sense of you’re kind of just happy to be there and move in with the flow.
“And one thing that I always wished I think was that I was like, damn, I wish there was in another universe I’ve met Juice now with going through what I’ve gone through and knowing what I know.”
The “Stay” artist didn’t even try to speak up since he was just grateful to be hanging with Juice and the stark age difference between them. He’s learned a ton about what Juice was going through by being in the spotlight himself the last few years.
“I wish I was able to meet him now and we were able to get on a level where I could provide some type of thing for him,” he continued. “And I think I just was never equipped to do that then. It wasn’t even an option. No one was looking to me. My take didn’t matter. Again, that was a funny thing.”
He went on: “I was like a 15-year-old kid. I’m an artist and living in bro’s house, I’m just grateful to be here and grateful to be around everything and grateful to be around these people and grateful that my life is changing. That was what I was grateful for at that time. And it’s just funny how you get older and perspectives change.”
The Kid LAROI and Juice reportedly met in early 2019 when the Chicago native was performing in Australia close to where LAROI grew up. The two were said to have been connected when the pop star got onto the radar of Juice’s manager, Peter Jideonwo.
He signed to Lil Bibby’s Grade A Productions management but eventually left Grade A in 2021 for a deal with Scooter Braun’s SB Projects empire.
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Blueface has never been shy about finding himself in the middle of rap related drama, but one of his strangest run ins so far has been with King Harris. It is not really a traditional feud and feels more like an awkward online exchange built around trolling, yet neither side seems ready to let it go.
For anyone who missed how this started, T.I.’s son fired back at the California rapper after Blueface joked that King resembles his new girlfriend Nevaeh Akira. While Blueface’s partner appeared to mean the comment as a compliment, King did not take it that way. Following King’s response, Blueface kept the jokes going, as seen in clips shared by Complex on Instagram.
“King Harris is my type of bh,” he wrote online before posting a video shortly after. “See, here nas go. They want to be funny now. I tried to say it the nicest way I could without calling you a bh, bro. You look like a bh. King Harris look like my bh. You want to go laugh and make it seem like you cute and handsome, and I’m weird? Ain’t nothing manly about you. You look like my bh. [On the] dead homies. You look like baby, look. There’s nothing manly about you, bro. You don’t look like a man, you petite, you light skin, your voice is real high. You want to make it weird? We can make it weird, na. You look like my bh.”
“King Harris, come get in the bed, baby,” Blueface joked while addressing Nevaeh Akira in another clip. “I like the way you said that. Queen Harris? Ooh. With your little petite a**. Ayo, pause, hold on.”
“First of all, I don’t look like no female ever,” King Harris said in his reply to Blueface. “Second of all, why the hell would you say that, brother? [...] I’m less mad, more like weirded out. Why would you say your girl resembles a guy? That s**t don’t sit. And then props to her. She was like, ‘Well, that means I’m handsome.’ Nah, baby, you’re supposed to be beautiful, pretty, sexy. Men are handsome, you know? Don’t get her thinking she handsome, Blueface. I’m handsome. She’s the female, beautiful, you know? Man traits should not be there.”
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