Jack Harlow is playing coy when it comes to details about his love life.
“I don’t feel like I’m in the wrong place,” Harlow, 28, said on The New York Times’ “Popcast” podcast when asked about dating in New York City.
The rapper was promoting his new album, Monica, which was released on Friday, March 13. He was also asked about whether the record’s name references a specific person.
“I just have always loved that name. I think that name is so pretty. I’ve always liked it. It’s just like how I feel about the name Adrian for a man,” Harlow said. “I love when I meet a man named Adrian. I’m like, ‘OK.’”
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He continued, “But Monica is just a pretty name, man. It’s the passive thing we’re talking about. You want the music to sound good forever. I want the album title to be something I can say forever and enjoy saying it and enjoy hearing it.”
While Harlow joked around — dodging outright questions about his relationship status — he did confirm that the final track on the album, “Say Hello,” is an “accurate” representation of where he’s at now.
“Maybe I’ll get at you when my life gets slow / I’ll be understandin’ if you change your name / And maybe you prefer to live a life you know,” he sings in the chorus. “One day I’ll be walkin’ by the place you stay, ooh, woah / Ooh, woah, say hello.”
Harlow explained on “Popcast” that the song represents the album as a whole.
“I think that outro is really saying you don’t have any obligation to me. I don’t have any obligation to you, but it doesn’t mean we can’t share a warm feeling for the rest of our lives,” he continued. “Maybe when I run into you, it could still be all good. I hate ending on bad terms. I don’t want my album to end on bad terms.”
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Harlow also explained how his New York move gave him “a jolt” in life — in more ways than one.
“I think some of the things I was reading and watching, they were taking place in New York. Suddenly, I started [to think] New York as a backdrop for my life sounds appealing,” he added. “It was all just gut feeling, like, I feel like that’s where I need to be.”
Harlow added, “I need forward momentum. I need to be learning. I need to be meeting people that are after the same thing as me.”
