Jack Harlow Net Worth

Rap music reflects its origin in the hip-hop culture of young, urban, working-class African-Americans, its function as the voice of an otherwise underrepresented group. Rap music commercialization in recent decades has become dominant in the mainstream and popular culture worldwide. Being a white rapper recognized in the hip-hop culture can be very challenging, if not ridiculed. Jack Harlow’s playful lyrics and banters bring something unique into the modern rap era. In both of his music and lyrics, they explore themes in brilliant parodies of sex, party, and drug use. The wise use of his wordplay in lyrics is introspective and entertaining. 

Harlow’s rise to fame was less than two years from his mixtapes remix and collaboration with notable artists such as Lil Wayne and DaBaby, and undeniably the social media. 

Jack Harlow’s first major breakthrough was his 2020 single Whats Poppin. Its remix featured other talented rappers and topped the chart at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 with over 240 million views on Youtube and over 1 billion streams on Spotify. 

What is Jack Harlow’s Net Worth?

In 2021, the newly emerged rap star, Jack Harlow earned US$5 million, a significant portion of which was just from brand endorsements; Harlow also sold more than $1 million in merchandise during that time. As of August 2022, Jack Harlow’s net worth is US$4 at a conservative estimate. If his tours, sales of albums, and music royalties were to be included, the figure is definitely much higher, but that information has yet to become publicly available.

In 2022, it was announced Jack Harlow will star in a remake of the classic 1992 sports-comedy film White Men Can’t Jump that starred Wesley Snipe and Woody Harrelson.

Who is Jack Harlow?

JackmanThomas Harlow is a rapper, actor, songwriter, and record producer. He was born on March 13, 1998, in Louisville, Kentucky. His mother, Maggie Payette Harlow is the CEO of the Louisville, Kentucky-based signal enterprise, Signarama Downtown, his father, Brian Harlow, also shares the same ownership of the enterprise. His younger brother, Jack Harlow, was born in 2000, two years younger than him. The siblings are of French and Irish descent. Harlow’s grandfather used to live down the street from renowned fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger.

Jack Harlow was raised on a horse farm near Shelbyville as an infant. Later during his childhood, his family moved to Louisville. Harlow began rapping when he was 12, he used a microphone and a laptop to create beats with his friends. While Harlow attended Highland Middle School in Louisville, he sold his music in the form of CDs to other students entitled his mixtape Rippin’ and Rappin. While making mixtapes, Harlow formed a group called Moose Gang.

Harlow is also a big proponent of Black Lives Matter. He attended a rally to protest against the killing of an African-American Breonna Taylor by law enforcement in his hometown. He remarked that being a white person, he can never truly understand the experience of racism. 

The Beginnings

In 2015, while still in high school, under the banner of sonaBLAST! record label Harlow released his first commercial album, the extended play (EP) The Handsome Harlow. It was a massive hit in Louisville—the shows were sold-out at venues at places like bars, ballrooms, and music halls. In 2016 Harlow released his first album, Private Garden; he collaborated with many familiar artists from his town and then went on tour for about a year to promote his album. 

In 2018, after moving to Atlanta, he worked at a fast food chain, Chick-fil-A, inside a cafeteria at Georgia State University to supplement his income. Not long after he was introduced to record executives of Generation Now records—under the umbrella of Atlantic Records— the deal was sealed in August 2018. Under the banner of Generation Now records, Harlow debuted a mixtape titled Loose. He embarked on a four-month tour in North America to promote his music. Loose received a nomination for Best Mixtape at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards.

Into The Limelight

In January 2021, Jack Harlow released the single Whats Poppin in his second EP, Sweet Action. It was a massive hit. Two months later, Marlow’s second EP was released in March 2021. The remix of What’s Poppin featured DaBaby, Tory Lanez, and Lil Wayne was immediately a hit and widely shared on the social media platform TikTok with over 7 billion views; it reached over 1 billion streams on Spotify and topped the number 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.

Later that year, Harlow featured in Eminem’s remix single, Killer. Two months later, in July of 2021, Jack Harlow’s collaboration with Lil Nas X in the single Industry Baby instantly boosted his fame globally—it reached the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100, giving the Georgia native his first number-one single on the chart.  

In 2022, Harlow released the single Nail Tech to promote his second studio album, it did exceptionally well on the Billboard Hot 100. It was praised by Kanye West, who co-produced Industry Baby. In May, the release of his second studio album, Come Home the Kids Miss You, his second hit single First Class of this album was the top spot at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, his second number-one single.

Brand Endorsements

Jack Harlow rose to stardom and was piled with endorsement offers. So far, Harlow is in partnership with established brands: KFC, a giant sports apparel New Balance, Buffalo Wild Wings, a worldwide popular video game Call of Duty, Tommy Hilfiger, and Cheetos.

Philanthropy

Through the social media platform and his fan base, Jack Harlow help to raise over $1 million for NGOs in Louisville and Historically black colleges and universities. KFC and Instagram announced that the companies will match up to $50,000 of what Harlow raises through the social media platform.

In December 2021, KFC and its parent company Yum! Brands worked with Jack Harlow to pool in $250,000 for the American Red Cross to support people residing in the western region of the United States that were affected by a deadly tornado.

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