At the end of 2019, Australian-born artist The Kid LAROI was just another teenager trying to make it in Americas rap game. But a little over a year later, the 17-year-old LAROI is among todays top hitmakers, with collaborations alongside megastars like Juice WRLD, Justin Bieber and as of today, Miley Cyrus.
Cyrus has hopped on a remix of LAROIs breakthrough song, Without You, an emotive ballad hinging on the age-old adage: You cant make a wife out of a ho. The two are set to perform the track on Saturday Night Live on May 8, marking LAROIs first time on the Studio 8H stage. Though it may seem like a surprising collaboration at first, LAROI and Cyrus voices each with their own signature croon blend together seamlessly, and Cyrus contribution brings a new maturity to the track. Feels like sleeping with a ghost / I called you up to let you know / I really wish that we couldve got this right, Cyrus belts over the songs laid-back acoustic guitar.
In fact, it was guitarist and Without You co-writer and producer Omer Fedi who brought the two together for the collaboration, LAROI tells Variety.
We met through Omer because wed been working together, and we talked about maybe doing a remix of Without You,' LAROI says. Omer came to me and was like, Hey, would you want Miley to do the remix? And I was like, Yeah, that would be dope. So we just linked up, met in the studio, she cut the record and then we went and hung out and had a little party. Shes cool as fuck. I remember when my cousins used to force me to watch Hannah Montana, so collaborating with her was pretty cool.
But by this point, hanging out with musics biggest stars is just another day for LAROI, whose raspy, punk-tinged vocals make it easy for him to blend in but also stand out on a variety of tracks. As a result, hes scored an impressive number of collaborations this year, including with Marshmello, Machine Gun Kelly, and a song on Biebers newest album, Justice.
For LAROI, featuring on Unstable was a dream come true. True to many of LAROIs songs and as of late, a lot of Biebers Unstable deals with the topic of mental health, specifically struggling with anxiety within a relationship. In a softer tone than normal, LAROI laments: White knuckles tryna hold my sanity/ Not every wound is the kind that bleeds/ Never know when my minds gonna turn on me/ But youre the one I call for security.
LAROI calls himself a longtime Bieber fan, even crediting Biebers 2011 doc Never Say Never as one of his inspirations for starting a music career.
I remember when I was seven years old and my older cousin took me to go watch the Never Say Never documentary with her when it came out in the movie theater, LAROI says. I didnt really know a lot about Justin Bieber, I was like seven years old, but I remember after watching that movie I was like, Yo, this is the coolest kid in the fucking world.'
Has Bieber lived up to LAROIs expectations? Absolutely, he says. Their collaboration started as many relationships do nowadays Bieber slid into LAROIs DMs.
He DMed me and he said, You got the sauce. I responded like, Thank you, Im a big fan. He just liked my message and that was it for a month or two, LAROI says.Then he just hit me up like, Hey I think I have a song for us to do. He sent me his number and I texted him while I was in the shower. I remember being like, Oh fuck, I hope he doesnt Facetime me or anything while Im in the shower. He did.
The two became fast friends, and have a tradition of playing basketball together every Sunday. Its crazy, thats my boy now, LAROI says with a chuckle.
In more ways than one, LAROIs rapid rise to success at such a young age mirrors that of Bieber. Born Charlton Howard in Sydney, Australia, LAROI started out writing his own raps in notebooks and uploading freestyle videos on social media. After becoming a finalist on Triple Js Unearthed competition in 2018 at age 15, LAROI caught the eye of Lil Bibby, a Chicago-based rapper who started his own label, Grade A Productions, and famously signed the late Juice WRLD in 2017. After hearing LAROIs track Blessings from his first EP 14 With a Dream, Bibby locked in LAROI to open for Juice WRLD during his Australian tours in 2018 and 2019. During those tours, LAROI and Juice WRLD forged a strong bond, with LAROI referring to him as a mentor.
First and foremost, he was just a really good dude, LAROI says of Juice WRLD. In the short time that we knew each other, he gave me a lot of the game on the industry and how some stuff works that I still keep in mind today.
Juice WRLD tragically died in December 2019 after an accidental overdose at only 21. LAROI paid tribute to him on his July 2020 debut mixtape, F*CK LOVE, by posthumously releasing their collaboration, Go. The track reached No. 22 on Billboards R&B and hip-hop chart, and an emotional music video featuring behind-the-scenes footage of LAROI and Juice WRLD has over 47 million views. Though the song focuses on romantic love, its lyrics take on a new meaning in the wake of Juices passing: Dont leave me lone, lone, lone/ I guess Im accident prone, prone prone.
Being such a young player in an industry ripe with addiction, LAROI does what he can to keep himself grounded. The biggest help, he says, has been having his mother and younger brother living with him in L.A., and the advice of those who have been there, done that.
You know whats funny, every big celebrity I meet, they always tell me: Hey man, dont do cocaine. Every single one of them, LAROI says in a tone that toes the line between joking and serious. Im like, Okay, Im going to take your word for it.'
With much of his music dealing with topics like love and mental health, LAROI says he finds the most songwriting inspiration in just regular life shit.
My biggest thing is like, you have to go through regular shit for regular people to relate, you know what Im saying? LAROI says. A lot of my biggest songs are just some real shit that I feel like a lot of people relate to.
Growing up in Australia, LAROI says he didnt have a ton of access to education concerning mental health, making him feel isolated in his emotions. He puts his mental health journey into his lyrics to help others who may be in the same situation. As LAROI sings on I Wish, one of the more vulnerable tracks on his debut mixtape: Every night I saw it, skeletons in my closet/ Still got all these problems, I thought money would solve em/ Blood all on the walls and, teardrops down, they falling.
I was kind of taught that depression and anxiety isnt real and it doesnt exist. I have felt this way for such a long time and I never knew what it was, so I didnt think that that shit really existed, LAROI says. I feel like some of my favorite artists back then were the people that were talking about that stuff because I could relate to it. So I want to be able to help people out the same way that some of my favorite artists helped me out.
Those favorite artists were Kanye West and Drake, LAROI says. But, though he has been raised in rap, dont expect LAROI to stick to one genre for the rest of his career. To him, they dont exist.
My music, if it had a genre, it would be called raw emotion because thats all it is, LAROI says. I dont go in and have specific sonics that I need to do, just whatever I think is dope or whatever helps bring how Im feeling at that time out. So genre to me, I dont think about that shit. That doesnt really mean shit to me.
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