Posted by Louisville, KY – Jack Harlow has been announced as a headliner at the 2022 Forecastle Festival, which is set to take place at Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky between May 27 and May 29.
The event is particuarly significant to Harlow due to the fact he attended the local festival as a kid, watching Outkast perform as part of their reunion tour in 2014.
“Grew up going to this festival,” he wrote to his Instagram Stories on Wednesday (January 5). “Saw Outkast here. Headlining is a genuinely a dream come true.”
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Forecastle Festival will take place for first time in two years following 2020 and 2021 cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Other artists on the lineup include Tyler, The Creator, 6LACK, Earl Sweatshirt, Wale, Maxo Kream, Princess Nokia, Duckwrth, JPEGMAFIA and many others, with tickets available to purchase on their website.
In March, Jack Harlow revealed some of his biggest musical inspirations, naming Outkast’s André 3000 as one of them.
“My rap influences are Drake, André 3000, Lil Wayne, Eminem and JAY-Z,” he said at the time. “I only got the chance to work with Wayne and one other is coming right up. One of them I just listed. It’s an exclusive but we can’t say it.”
Harlow went on to collaborate with Eminem on a remix of “Killer” featuring Cordae in May.
Jack Harlow Honored With His Own Day In Louisville, Kentucky
During an interview with ELLE in April 2020, Jack Harlow rapped part of Big Boi’s second verse on “The Way You Move,” which appeared on Outkast’s 2003’s album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
“The whole room fell silent, the girls all paused with glee,” he recited. “Turning left, turning right, are they looking at me?/Well, I was looking at them, there, there, on the dance floor/Now, they got me in the middle, feeling like a man-whore.”
He added, “That song’s so smooth and timeless – I wish I had that song.”