Harlow: “I’m in the business of turning skeptics to believers.”

Harlow: “I dress a certain way. I move a certain way. A lot of it’s subconscious, but it’s because I don’t want anyone to be able to put me in a category.”

Harlow: “To me, it’s music that the culture digests all at the same time, on a decently mass level.”

Harlow: “I want to be the face of my sh*t, like the face of my generation, for these next 10 years. We need more people in my generation that are trying to be the best, and you can’t do that with just ear candy, vibe records.”

Harlow: “I think people are unaware of my musical range.”

[On the hate he gets]

Harlow: “I felt like the bulk of hatred was coming from like, other white boys, or very well-educated white guys were writing thinkpieces on me and trying to discredit me… And then I started to realize, well, this isn’t a unique situation. So I felt like well, let’s make this bigger than me.”

Harlow: “You can’t put me in a box.”

Harlow: “It was good for me to come down here and force myself to work and get better. I wasn’t freestyling and I wasn’t punching in until I got down here. All the artists down here, they freestyle. So it forced me to step it up.”

Harlow: “I always say some of the greatest songs come together quickly.”

Harlow: “For the last 10 years, I’ve been looking to my idols for what’s OK. It’s starting to become my turn to tell the kids that are looking to me what’s OK. After a while, you have to stop looking at your idols and saying, ‘All right, what’s the blueprint? How do I do?’ That was very valuable for a while, but now I’m becoming my own man, my own artist, with my own lane.”

Harlow: “I don’t know if [credibility] is a requirement to have success, but it’s important to me.”

Harlow: “I was rapping in high school and there were kids that used to hate on me, who show me a lot of love now.”

Harlow: "So many people in my life want me to get on 15 trap beats, whatever the fly sound is right now, and just swag them out. But what’s driving me to push the envelope is I know there’s still kids that are 11 years old that want to be the best rapper alive one day, like I wanted to be at 11, and there’s not enough people making music for those kids. There’s not enough people making music to inspire."

Harlow: “I think people right now have me boxed in as the white boy who can really rap.”

Harlow: “I’m always going to do the rap thing, but I’m excited for more of my music to spread its wings and get credit for that breadth and that range.”

Harlow: “All I want to be seen as is the truth. I didn’t come in here with a persona.”

Harlow: “A response is better than no response.”

Harlow: “I’m excited for the world to find out more about me because I can see them getting to know me better, month by month, and really getting closer to having a grasp on who I want to be seen as.”

Harlow: “Proving people wrong and showing my range.”

Harlow: “Louisville’s always home. That’s my city. But Atlanta has been a good workspace for me, and I’ve been able to grow a lot down here, just being around other artists and being around work ethics and being in the industry.”

Harlow: “I see what everyone says about me. I’m narcissistic enough to find out. But it doesn’t bother me like it did when I was younger.”

Harlow: “Since I’ve been moving around Atlanta for the last few years and going to the clubs and events, I run into Lil Baby periodically. Every time, it’s been love—more than I could’ve anticipated. That’s in his character. ”

Harlow: “Even outside of rapping, I never wanted to be pigeonholed.”

Harlow: “I try to make music that isn’t just about me.”

Harlow: “I know that people have opinions about me, but it’s not healthy for me to know all of them. And if you go looking for them, you’re asking for it. So, aside from that, I know all the controversy ages well.”

Harlow: “Sometimes great music doesn’t have to just be about, 'Look how great I am.' This is grown music. This is adult music. And I think my voice has really settled into this manlier space.”

Harlow: “I think people believe me and people can tell that I’m secure in myself.”

Harlow: “All our greats have been through the controversy and have been crucified and made to be seen as a villain. And then it ages and the art speaks. So I don’t trip.”

Harlow: “I just have a good feeling about this music aging well.”

Harlow: “I think Drake has crossed that line now where it’s like, all right, it’s kind of lame if you just hate Drake at this point. So when I see the greats do it, I know I can do the same.”

Harlow: “We’re not supposed to know what the world thinks of us. Even at this level, it’s not really healthy as a person.”

Harlow: “There was a point where it was really trendy to hate LeBron James, and then he hit a turning point when he won that championship in Cleveland, after being down 3-1.”