Jack Harlow is leaving the past where he found it and moving on with his latest single “Set You Free.” The record arrives alongside a music video that finds the Kentucky rapper exploring New York with a group of friends coaching him through a breakup.
“I’m overly in tune, I’m over stimulated/I’m over me and you/I’m over eating too, I’m drinking again/I’m outside the house, I’m linking with friends,” Harlow admits over skittering production from Angel Lopez, Jenius, and Don Alfonso. “You found me at the end of peak innocence/My love is dried up like ink in this pen/And now that I’m thinking again/I’m not scared to leave you/’Cause I know I need to.”
“Set You Free” marks the third single from Harlow since he made his return with “Miss Johnson” in November after a year-long break between releases. Where that single was cheeky and chaotic, its follow-up “Tranquility” was a necessary introduction to the artist he became during his time off.
“I just left the old me’s funeral/I would turn the camera on and give you more of me like I used to do,” he rapped on the record. “But somethin’ ’bout it don’t seem suitable/Somethin’ ’bout selling myself feels so juvenile.”
Harlow’s most recent studio album Jackman arrived in 2023 as another return to form following the pop-heavy Come Home the Kids Miss You the year prior. Still, he followed it with “Lovin’ on Me,” a slick rap-pop record that captured the same viral attention that launched “First Class” and “What’s Poppin’” into the internet stratosphere.
From Rolling Stone US
