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Why Jack Harlow Sometimes Regrets Using His Real Name · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Since the dawn of
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  Speaker 1: hip hop, a small percentage of rappers have used their
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  Speaker 1: birth name as their stage name, though it's become more
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  Speaker 1: common in the last decade with artists like Kendrick Lamar
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  Speaker 1: Drake and Jack Harlow, who admits he sometimes regrets the decision,
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  Speaker 1: telling Variety, I do wish I had that hiding place.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes artists assumed characters for a verse. Kendrick does, Eminem
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  Speaker 1: had it with Slim Shady, and sometimes in the studio,
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  Speaker 1: my engineer will even encourage me to get out of
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  Speaker 1: Jack Harlow. That's something I have to work on intentionally,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe I will. Jack does add on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the coin, he feels using your real name
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  Speaker 1: invokes realness and honesty that he does not regret at all.
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  Speaker 1: But for Jackson album next year, that's direct from Hollywood.