Jack Harlow just rapped over what he’s calling “the best rap beat of all time.”
For his third L.A. Leakers freestyle with Power 106, the Louisville spitter delivered some rhymes over the instrumental for Snoop Dogg and Pharrell’s 2004 classic “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” giving his collaborator Skateboard P’s iconic beat a fresh spin.
Harlow covered plenty of topics in just a minute, including his love for women, his bodyguard’s lack of time off, and not needing validation or acceptance. “I keep on showing up and y’all boys are just absent again/Dropped a new joint, she got a new set of captions/Y’all don’t got passion, you just be wearing the fashion that’s in/I used to beg for acceptance, don’t plan on asking again.”
Harlow’s second studio LP Come Home the Kids Miss You just debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, charting behind Bad Bunny’s new album Un Verano Sin Ti , which reached No. 1. Bunny’s record moved 274,000 album equivalent units. Harlow’s sophomore effort ended up with 113,000 units moved, marking the highest-charting effort of his career so far.
Come Home the Kids Miss You included features from Pharrell, Drake, Justin Timberlake, and Lil Wayne, plus his No. 1 solo single “First Class,” which returned to the top of the Hot 100 this week.
“I think it’s one of the best albums of the year, period,” producer Rogét Chahayed told Complex. “I’m not trying to be biased, obviously, because we put our heart and soul into it, but go listen to everything else right now and tell me if you hear anything that sounds like what we’re doing or what we did. I really feel strongly about what we did.”
