{"id":4521,"date":"2026-03-13T17:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/jack-harlow-says-he-got-blacker-with-monica-album\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:04:03","slug":"jack-harlow-says-he-got-blacker-with-monica-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/jack-harlow-says-he-got-blacker-with-monica-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Harlow Says He Got \u2018Blacker\u2019 With \u2018Monica\u2019 Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jack Harlow is back and apparently \u201cBlacker\u201d than ever before with his latest album, <em>Monica<\/em>. Harlow recently discussed the R&#038;B-inspired project with the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2018 <em>Popcast<\/em> podcast. At one point in the conversation, it turned to race and how white rappers are positioned in the music industry. One of the interviewers pointed out that Harlow\u2019s white peers\u2014like Post Malone, MGK, and Jelly Roll\u2014 have the ability to retreat into other genres, such as Country and Rock, whereas Black rappers don\u2019t. However, it appears that Harlow dove deeper into his Black influences with his latest project\u2014 a sentiment he agrees with, saying he got \u201cBlacker.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Black music. I love the sound of Black music. And of course, I\u2019m hyper-aware of the politics of today, that safer landing spot that a lot of my white contemporaries have found,\u201d Harlow says. \u201cAnd of course, it appealed to me to do something that I felt, at a time when there\u2019s certainly people that expect me to take the routes y\u2019all are taking, to take the route that not only might not be expected but is also the route that I genuinely want to take. So all the stars aligned in that way for me, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jack Harlow EXCLUSIVE \u2018Monica\u2019 Interview! On Pivoting to R&#038;B, Dating in NYC &#038; Finding Himself\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OR-GIvtidd8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Harlow is back and apparently \u201cBlacker\u201d than ever before with his latest album, Monica. Harlow recently discussed the R&#038;B-inspired&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":4624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}