Jack Harlow has learned the hard way that despite “First Class” being a chart-topping smash, not everyone knows the song, as he was met with an awkward silence in Paris during a recent show.
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The Jackman rapper was performing as part of Global Citizen’s Power Our Planet concert in Paris, and was hoping to excite the crowd by having them rap the “First Class” opening lyrics, but to no avail. Instead, Harlow got met with a thick wave of desolate silence, so he just decided to dive into the track. Luckily, the crowd seemed to come back to life once the track dropped.
“First Class” snagged the No. 1 spot for the first time on the U.S. charts last April. Built on Fergie and Ludacris’s 2006 hit “Glamorous,” the track made big waves on TikTok and earned over 420,000 sales in its opening week, along with 54.6 million streams. The achievement marked the biggest streaming debut for a song since Drake, Future and Young Thug’s “Way 2 Sexy” in September 2021.
The track appeared on Harlow’s sophomore effort Come Home The Kids Miss You, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 in its first week, moving around 113,000 total album-equivalent units. The project – which was stacked with features from Drake, Pharrell Williams, Justin Timberlake and Lil Wayne – was projected to debut at No. 2 behind Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti but was pushed from the spot after Future’s album I NEVER LIKED YOU made its return to No. 2.
The Kentucky rhymer most recently dropped off his album Jackman, which got the internet talking after he compared his talent to that of Eminem’s with the bar: “The hardest white boy since the one who rapped about vomit and sweaters.”
Not everyone was a fan of Jack Harlow’s comparison, including Machine Gun Kelly, who attacked the rapper in his song “Renegade Freestyle.”
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“How do you take it in? I guess you just fucking take it,” Harlow said of the diss track in an interview with Rap Radar. “Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, and I feel great about what I said, and I feel great about the reaction. It just is what it is.”
He added: “It was a stream-of-consciousness sort of verse. Not that I don’t stand on my statement. I’m an MC! I’m talking my shit. This is not a new concept to feel yourself. I feel no reservations about what was said at all.”
