Jack Harlow virtually received his award for Songwriter of the Year, as well as Song of the Year at the 2021 SESAC Pop Music Awards.
On Saturday, the “What’s Poppin” rapper received some well-deserved awards at Variety’s annual Hitmakers award event in downtown Los Angeles. The Kentucky native won Variety’s Hitmaker of Tomorrow award and while accepting the award, he gave a sweet speech in which revealed the last time he won an award in front of a crowd was when he was a competitive second grader.
“I went to an elementary school that had a competitive program,” Harlow started. “You could read a book and then take a quiz on that book, and if you passed the quiz, indicating you had really read the book, you would get awarded a certain amount of points. The bigger more challenging the book, the more points you earned. I read every book I could find. I read all the Harry Potter books. Boy, those Harry Potter books are worth some points.”
“So we get to the end of the school year and there’s a big assembly,” he continued. “The entire school is there, in my memory at least it feels like a stadium full of people. The climax of this assembly is the staff announcing the top three students who had read the most, or at least, had been credited the most points for reading.”
Harlow added that he had watched two fifth graders come in second and third place before his name was finally called. “I had beat the entire school. I won by a landslide, I probably had quadruple whatever second place had,” he recalled.
“I think if you took a picture of me on this stage and showed that kid, he’d be pretty blown away,” Harlow said. “It was a competition and it brought out the competitor in me, which is a big part of the genre I’m in. All that reading is what made me the writer I am now, and I’m pretty sure it’s what’s going to make me the Hitmaker of Tomorrow.”
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