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- Are you ready? - Yeah.
♪ I surpassed all my childhood dreams ♪
♪ Said fuck a high school team ♪
♪ Say I ain't ever comin' back for the itty-bitty chat ♪
♪ I gotta go and get on the screen ♪
♪ They ain't ever saw what I seen ♪
♪ Fast-forward, now I'm chilling with Scheme ♪
♪ How I went from being so normal to every day looking like a movie scene ♪
♪ See, I don't know, all I know is it happened quick ♪
♪ And I don't know if my head is mentally fit for it ♪
♪ I gotta keep my mindset, I gotta ♪
Ah, sh-- Fuck, I fucked up.
Uh...
I-I fucked it up a little bit. Sorry.
In my life, I've always been moving around.
When I came here, it was stability.
And I guess that's why this, to me, is like my home.
I call this shit my home.
Even though shit has been rough,
I made so many fuckin' memories here.
Yeah, it's like I'm from here and I'm doing shit that's... that's dope.
Big-ass weight on my shoulders, but it's like...
who cares?
I mean, shit, if everything goes to plan in the next two or three years,
I'll be doing big festivals and shit.
Spreading good messages.
I want to be the kid that came from Australia
and became not just the biggest thing out of Australia
but the biggest thing in the world.
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
Kid LAROI!
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
- Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
- Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
I feel like everything that's happened,
I manifested all that stuff.
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
You anticipate your life to a certain point,
and then you get there, but...
all you're thinking about is:
What do I do now?
That's why I think music's so special, because...
...as much as people are gonna... gonna learn, uh, about me,
you know, through this documentary, I think people will...
will learn more if they really pay attention to the music.
Wait, wait, wait. What was that shit?
Hey. Why the fuck you guys staring at me?
You guys making me feel awkward and shit. What the...?
Want me to put a camera in your face?
I see you laid up at the house, watching the screen right now.
Why do you want to watch a whole movie about me?
I told you, go listen to the music.
You want to stick around?
All right, fuck it.
- [ laughing ] What's up? - What's up, man?
You'll get the "Stay" master in like 30 minutes.
So, check that out for approval.
- Sounds good. - All right, bro.
Have you been doing anything, any shows or no?
- No. - Nothing?
My first one's gonna be on the 23rd of July in Miami.
- Nice. - So...
Is that... it's a festival, or is it just--
- Yeah. Rolling Loud. Yeah. - Okay, sweet.
It's gonna be cool. It's a big one, though, you know?
'Cause I haven't...
It's scary kind of, 'cause, like, I haven't performed
to my own crowd, like, that... like, that big.
You'll be good. I bet.
You've got "Stay" dropping, all these things happening...
What are you thinking about?
Feels like so much pressure.
And that gets in my head a lot, thinking that maybe one day
it could just not happen anymore.
You make one wrong move,
and the way people look at you can change.
I guess the bigger you get, the more you got to worry about this shit.
Two, one, roll camera.
The part that makes me nervous is everything getting too crazy.
One, two, one, two, three, yeah!
- ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
♪ Hey, whoa...
The Kid LAROI is one of the biggest stars on the planet.
♪ My life is a movie directed by Tarantino...
He's highly entertaining, and he's just tearing up the world.
He hasn't even put out an album yet.
His melodies are mental, lyrics are crazy.
If you're sitting at home
and you're like, "Oh, I haven't heard of him,"
you've tipped over into the next generation.
Ladies and gentlemen, Miley Cyrus and The Kid LAROI.
The Kid LAROI.
♪ Wanna be us ♪
♪ Whoa, fuck, we know, I swear I hate these hoes ♪
- Love y'all.
Let's go, bro.
That was pretty good for my first show.
- What?! - You fucking deserve it.
I can't believe they were chanting my--
Yo, if anything, I thought they was gonna be, like, booing me.
That was my biggest fear about this festival, to be honest.
I was like, "Damn, I wonder if they still fuck with me over here, man."
- Yeah, yeah. - Don't overthink it. - Bro.
'Cause it was a hip-hop crowd, and I'm like, I'm doing a lot of pop.
I thought they was gonna be, like-- And they was chanting my--
Like, "Kid LAROI! Kid--" I was like, "Jesus."
That shit's crazy.
That shit is bananas.
Mikey, right? You ready for the fucking tour?
Warm-up. It's warm-up.
Man, God is good, man.
God is good.
- - Every time I enjoy something too much,
I tell myself there's no way shit can be this good.
I've done this my entire life.
I'm always worrying about something.
Oh, my baby.
- You like it? - Amazing.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
I've only been alive 20 years.
I feel like it's been 80.
Is this your first time seeing this place?
I would hope not. We've already paid for it.
Yeah, no, I saw it before.
I'm just so excited to see it.
I can't believe it's happening,
'cause when we first met, you lived in Chatsworth.
- I did. - We would drive an hour to my house.
It's all good.
We are where we are today.
Man, it's everything, from what they dealt with.
Having people pay for his housing and his school
to buying a house before his 18th birthday, it's amazing.
Welcome home, boss.
And we arrived at the front door.
To the right, we have the full dining area.
All right, come on, guys.
I was thinking the other day, like, "Why did I even buy a house?"
It was a little sporadic.
- That's a waterfall right there. - Oh, wow.
But when you're a new artist,
you don't really know what's next.
Nice view over there.
Look at that.
And my dad, you know, he's always constantly telling me,
you know, "When I had money, I wish I did better things with it."
Oh, there's good size there. That's good.
And I guess that's how we ended up with nothing later,
because we never bought a house or anything.
Do you believe we had studios next to each other?
I kept looking outside
and seeing we usually had a queue of people waiting to get in.
- It was like a nightclub.
We were selling tickets.
My dad and I, we're rebuilding our relationship back up.
It was in and out our whole life.
Gonna catch you, Auz. Gonna catch you.
How do you even do that shit backwards, bro?
Caroline, everybody.
When I first came to L.A., my biggest fear is: I would go out,
and I would see kids off the rails.
Just doing coke everywhere, getting fucked up every night.
Someone would be like, "Oh, yeah, that's-that's so-and-so's,
like, younger brother."
I don't want him to start to go off track.
So I always try and keep him close,
spend as much time with him as I can.
Three, two, one, go.
- Yes, I win.
You went before me.
- Okay. Okay, that-- - He went before me.
- Did he or did he not? - That one was a little dodgy.
- How about we do it again? - No, I would've fucked him up.
- He knows it. - Okay, Adam?
- I fucked him up when he-- - So... so, how about we go again?
- Austin, now we're gonna do breaststroke. - Oh, my God.
Sweet?
You can't beat me, little bro.
- You can't beat me. - Yeah?
Just accept it.
Yeah, yeah, that's hot. Bro, that's sick.
My brother Auz is a producer, and he wants to make music.
You know, I never gave him anything.
The only thing I've ever really done was brought him to the studio with Fivio,
and that's 'cause I thought he was ready.
Add some drill to it a little bit.
Yeah, that's my bro Auz, too.
What's up, man? How you doing?
So if you do, like, another eight bars with no drums,
and then after that, the drums come in,
- you know, so you kind of continue. - Mm, bro, yeah, that's-that's sweet.
That's what I was thinking. Like, about right... about right here...
I think being able to make some of the best music
is about having people you trust.
I have a lot of friends that are artists, and the ones I'm close with is because
I genuinely believe that they're good people.
- Do we all love it? I love it. - I love it.
- I love it. I love it. - I love it.
I make music with my boys Billy, Blake,
Omer, who was actually one of the first people
that I met when I came to Los Angeles.
All right, I'm ready to run it.
He's great.
When I first met this dude...
I probably couldn't even sell out a fucking ten-people show
when I met him, and he...
I remember, he wasn't anybody, either.
And now look.
We evolved together, like real friends.
- And look at this, look at this, look at this. - The foreign people came up.
We already got kids...
this is five hours before the show.
All this is going to be filled.
That's it.
- ♪ I don't know if ♪
♪ We just crossed the line ♪
♪ 'Cause I don't even know what just happened ♪
- ♪ Everything I said-- ♪
Yeah, let me... let me... let me hit the line after that real quick.
Yep. Here we go.
First time I heard his music,
I was going on SoundCloud every day,
and then I find this dude.
The Kid LAROI-- he's like 15 or 16 at the time,
and he just sings so good.
I DM'd him on Instagram.
First time we ever met.
He got into the booth, and basically, he did all of "Go" in one take.
- - ♪ Okay, go, go, go ♪
♪ She always be talking like she know, know, know ♪
♪ I told her, "Don't ever leave me 'lone, 'lone, 'lone..."
I'm like, "This is gonna be the easiest thing ever to make music with this guy."
I had met Omer.
He had been making music with LAROI for a while.
And then I met LAROI in quarantine.
Everything had shut down. No one was working.
- We were like, "We're not gonna stop working. - This song is insane!
We have to work harder than everyone now."
- Yes! Add it. - He had a really good cult fan base.
A lot of the hip-hop community knew him.
He had done the Cole Bennett videos.
And he had the entire first F*ck Love EP.
- - ♪ You cut out a piece of me ♪
♪ And now I bleed internally ♪
♪ Left here without you...
The first song that we ever made together was "Without You."
Seeing our music top the charts
for so long off of this kid that I met in quarantine--
there's nothing more gratifying in the entire world.
Hard days, and my heart breaks for the thing that I got wrong.
- Like, fucking... like, crazy, like-- - Whoa!
- Whoa! Where is this guy from? - You know what I'm saying?
- Where are you from, Billy Walsh? - Like, this is, like-- Nah, but this is, like--
I worked a lot with The Weeknd and Dua and Post.
I remember the first time I listened to LAROI's music,
I just remember hearing it and being like, "Whoa."
Just, like, the emotion in his voice and the way he sang and the writing.
I saw that Omer had worked on it, so I hit Omer immediately,
and I was like, "I need to meet LAROI."
Right? So that would be, like, a little different than the first one.
We met in a session.
It just felt super natural and organic.
We would just kind of talk about what the lyrics should be.
And then he'd find a way to sing it and just go line for line.
It was totally unique to any way I had ever worked before.
With him, what makes him so special is he really is an incredible writer
and he's so young.
As his creative director,
I was impressed with him pretty quick, actually.
He's focused.
He knows what he likes. He knows what he doesn't like.
Sometimes I think I'm a perfectionist,
and then I hang out with LAROI
and I'm like, "I'm a loser."
The next album has to compete with, like, the biggest.
And just 'cause I know I'm on a creative roll right now,
so I've just been in every day, like, literally from like 3:00 p.m.
till fucking, like... last night, I was in until like 5:00 a.m.
♪ I spent 2,000 on this room just to sleep alone ♪
- Go again.
♪ I spent 2,000 on this room just to sleep alone ♪
Go again.
"Go again. Go again. Go again."
It's fine.
After a LAROI session, all I can hear when I'm going to bed is:
"Go again. Go again. Go again."
- It won't leave me. - Go again.
- That's crazy. - That shit sound fly.
I'm not really thinking about anything else
but just making the music the best right now.
I make so many songs, and then I hate them all,
and then it'll take me like months to figure out which ones I really like.
I think I just want to be able to give
the most honest version of myself.
That's really it.
You use music as an outlet.
Where does this come from?
It's the way that temporarily helps me.
I'm leaving the past in the past.
It's like going to therapy.
You got to talk about the past
to be able to move on from it.
I had an incredible mentor.
- ♪ We get money on this side ♪
♪ Baby, that's no discussion...
He taught me a lot about life, to be honest.
When I was 15, my friends and I would be running around
whenever there'd be an artist coming to town.
We'd go and wait outside their hotel and try and wait for them to come out
so I could rap for them.
I had a booking agent in Australia.
He was like,
"If anyone was to come to Australia now, who would you want to open for?"
And I was like, "Juice WRLD."
- ♪ I still see your shadows in my room ♪
♪ Can't take back the love that I gave you ♪
He's like, "He's coming, actually, in like six months.
Like, I could try and put that together."
So he reached out to Grade A Productions.
So, Juice had the Australian tour,
and then I was telling my whole team, like,
"I need this kid."
Months later, when they ended up coming,
I was at the hotel that they were staying at.
I opened the door, and it was Juice, dude.
We didn't talk much that night, but the next day,
we got to meet and chum it up properly.
A couple days later, I was opening up for him.
LAROI, what you want, man?
I got you flying private, fool.
- Of course, man.
Hold on, hold on. Wait, wait there.
Who the fuck let me have that haircut, dude? What the fuck?
Like, so bad.
Oh, shit.
Okay, back to the story.
We bonded so well creatively
and what I felt was, like, on a personal level.
I'm joining the world of Juice.
Make some noise for my boy Juice one more time.
Make some noise for my brother LAROI one more time!
I would watch him record.
Every single day, I'd just sit in the room, not even say anything,
and just watch him record and just be like, "Well, this is insane."
He's the reason that, for a long time, I was recording my songs,
like, just punching in, you know, like, punch-in style.
Once I saw Juice record, the thing that I took away
was really getting in touch with your emotions when making a song.
He was a lot of the reason Charlton has a creative escape
as a form of therapy.
I came to America with him at 15.
Now you're immersed in the world of Los Angeles.
This is what life is over here.
We had started living in the same house.
That shit breaks my brain every day
because, you know, when you see someone in such, like, everyday life,
you're not thinking about, like, "Holy shit,
this motherfucker is changing the world."
You know, I'm seeing broski wake up in his board shorts,
like, walking into the kitchen,
grabbing a glass of milk and fucking cereal or some shit.
LAROI's like, "Yeah, Juice would take me to go get food.
Like, bro would buy me clothes and shit. Really just looking after me."
When LAROI was in L.A., he lived with Juice.
I think they used to have talks about problems.
You know, Juice had a lot of problems.
As much as I loved him as a big brother or whatever,
I felt like he maybe held some things back from me.
I wish maybe we could've talked about that a little more.
August 2019.
That was in Greece for my 16th birthday.
We went out to dinner there, and Juice didn't come.
I think he was sleeping.
Shit. My fault, I couldn't make it, bro.
I was up all night recording and shit.
- Nah, that's cool. - Motherfucking sleeping all day, but shit.
I'll make a hit for your birthday. I'll give you a verse, fool.
- For reals? - That's a--
That's a $200,000 gift, little bro.
I'll never forget, I was in a session with a friend,
and I get a text from LAROI. He's like,
"Juice is literally recording on 'Go' right now."
And I just took my phone, and I threw it on the wall.
I was like, "No way!"
- - ♪ Perky with the lean, it got me slow, slow, slow ♪
♪ And yeah, I know I made a few mistakes before ♪
♪ But you know I ain't fucking with these hoes no more ♪
♪ Won't let go...
Sitting there, and I was like, "Man, like, what the fuck?"
Everything was about to start happening.
♪ And I'll die for you ♪
♪ Homicide for you ♪
It was a couple days after Juice's birthday,
we were going to Chicago for the celebration.
We get off the plane, and we're walking into the airport.
There was Feds everywhere.
They were like, "All right, everybody, we need you to take a seat.
We're gonna look through your bags."
Juice was sitting right across from me.
And there was a cartoon or something playing on the TV.
I just remember Juice being really high,
and he looked back at the TV and said something like,
"Look, y'all. What is this?"
He just started seizing.
Everything just kind of stopped.
I saw my friend pass away right in front of me.
The music world in shock after the sudden death
of 21-year-old rapper Juice WRLD.
Juice died on Sunday after suffering a medical episode
at Chicago's Midway Airport.
No one that young deserves to go through that.
He had so much life left to live.
I didn't know how to deal with it properly at the time.
I never spoke to anybody after it happened.
Like, I never saw a therapist.
I prayed a couple times, um...
I kind of prayed to... Juice, I guess.
Maybe that sounds weird saying it out loud.
Juice passed away in December 2019,
and our song got released in 2020.
It's a pretty eerie place, man.
So many different souls coming in here.
Even though those were some of the best times of my life,
going back to those places makes me feel terrible.
Ally... Juice... Me...
That's Scheme.
All from 2019.
Jesus Christ.
You put the sad face?
Yo, I wrote it, bro.
And it kind of forces you to, like, think about certain things.
You know, it was different.
I was like 15. He was like 20 or something.
I have so many questions that only he would be able to answer.
He was battling with fame and addiction.
You know, a year before, he was, like, the biggest thing in the world.
Juice was just a regular kid.
I'm about to be 20 this year, right?
Juice was 21. He'd just turned 21 when he passed away.
I'm taking in right now how young I am because I'm like, "Damn."
I can't imagine the amount of pain and...
stuff that he was going through and, like, the suffering
that he had to go through at just like 19, 20 years old.
That just should not be placed on anybody at that age.
It upsets me a lot
because I really wish I...
I-I just wish I was in the position I'm in now back then.
I wish there was something in the universe to change
that we had met later so I could be like,
"Oh, man, you know what? Like, I understand you. I get you."
You know, Juice was a really sweet,
sweet human being.
He was really, uh...
I don't know, man. Just, like, it's tough.
All of that thing... that whole thing is just really tough to kind of revisit.
♪ Faded away in the dark ♪
♪ And you're never comin' back ♪
♪ No comin' back ♪
♪ And I saw the look on your face ♪
♪ When it changed and you weren't lookin' back ♪
♪ No comin' back ♪
♪ Numb today, but tomorrow I'll feel it ♪
♪ Truth is worse every time that I hear it ♪
♪ Know you're gone, but tell me, where did your spirit go? ♪
♪ I just don't get it ♪
♪ All the things I wish I would've said ♪
♪ Before you took your last breath ♪
♪ How'd you build me up just to leave me now? ♪
♪ Whoa-oh ♪
♪ And I just don't know where to go ♪
♪ Oh, tell me where we go, whoa-oh ♪
♪ No, I just don't know ♪
♪ Call you whenever I'm drunk ♪
♪ Then I remember you're gone ♪
♪ Wish I could hear what you'd say ♪
♪ Hope that I'm all that you saw ♪
♪ I'm takin' all that you taught ♪
♪ Blood comin' up when you cough ♪
♪ Coldest December I saw ♪
♪ Tryin' to hold on to your soul ♪
♪ Fuck all that letting you go ♪
♪ I'll never let you go ♪
♪ Run away from the way that I'm feeling ♪
♪ Maybe that's just the way that I'm healing ♪
♪ Know you're gone, but tell me, where did your spirit go? ♪
♪ I just don't get it ♪
♪ All the things I wish I would've said ♪
♪ Before you took your last breath ♪
♪ How'd you build me up just to leave me now? ♪
♪ Whoa, no ♪
♪ And I just don't know where to go ♪
♪ Oh, tell me where we go ♪
♪ Whoa-oh ♪
♪ No, I just don't know ♪
Long live Juice! Long live Juice! Long live Juice!
Long live Juice!
Drained, boss?
- Huh? - The crowd didn't...
What am I even doing?
- ♪ Don't wanna do no talkin' ♪
♪ And tell them niggas that they better...
- How do you feel? - Terrible.
We gotta do this 50 people meet and greet.
Okay.
The fame makes you feel invincible.
Because you're like, "I have access to things
that a majority of the world doesn't have access to
immediately at the snap of my fingers."
So, if you think that's not gonna make another man feel invincible, you're crazy.
And that's what happens-- people start thinking that what they have is forever.
It-it's a trick. It's a trap.
What if people stop listening to my music?
And what if I can't do things with my family?
I don't know, it's weird. It happens to me every day.
I always go through phases.
Some days, I'll just go an entire day feeling like shit.
I-I don't think I ever go through an entire day feeling extremely happy.
I just have very crazy mood switches all the time.
Are your parents going with you, or just you two?
Um...
Just me and Kat are going.
In and out, no ceremony?
Um, no. I'm not really trying to go to that shit.
I really don't even want to go
to the red carpet thing, but...
I'm here, I guess.
But I know... I know what you envision
- with the baggier pant. - Yeah.
But this absolutely looks fire.
I feel like a big chicken.
I don't think I've ever really been excited about an awards show.
I was already not feeling good, and then I just went there
and just, like, hacked it.
All right, we have Kid LAROI tonight.
How are you doing? Are you so excited to be here?
Oh, yeah. I'm stoked.
Now, you're nominated in the Best New Artist category.
When you got that nomination, what went through your head?
I also get it's, like, a thing in history.
You know, really cool, like, music's biggest night.
But then you feel like you're, like, in competition.
It stresses artists out, and it makes artists
get into this whole frenzy, and it makes artists insecure.
So I just walked the carpet or whatnot and then dipped.
When I was younger, maybe I thought that this was gonna make me happy.
I understand that this is-- quote, unquote-- "what you signed up for."
But it's made me so much less confident in myself.
It's made me, like, question everything I do.
Because you're on a pedestal
and because you're an artist, everyone looks at you as, like, the voice.
Sometimes you don't know what to say when certain things are thrown at you.
I'll be onstage, I'll be like, "Hey, did I... did I say that correctly?
Did I respond to that correctly?"
It's stuff like that that freaks me out.
A moment can be taken in a TikTok or Twitter or whatever and thrown up,
and everyone can all of a sudden have this opinion on me.
People who know me and they know, like, my heart, but...
people who are fans maybe don't because they just don't know me.
Money, fame, dreams coming true-- that doesn't resolve problems.
It doesn't stop them from happening.
If anything, they just...
come on a bigger scale, you know?
But I do tell myself every day, "Be grateful," you know?
"Look at what you've got. Be happy."
People have an idea about happiness,
and I had that same idea--
you know, once I get certain things, everything will be fine.
So they'll look at it like, "Oh, well,
you know, you're still rich. Like, whatever."
One night, I, um...
I was just going through a lot,
and I was just super, like, suicidal.
And I really was thinking about, you know, some fucked-up shit.
I always felt like that for, like, a long time.
Ever since I was a little kid, honestly, but...
I definitely think the whole "famous" thing
just, like, amplified it way more.
I don't know.
It just got really bad one day, and I was just like,
"Fuck. I got to... I got to call somebody.
Just to, you know... 'cause I know I'm...
I know I'm being crazy."
I introduced him to someone
who I think is awesome.
- A therapist? - Yeah.
Someone to talk to who can, like, show you what it is and why it is.
And then you can kind of move forward.
I talked to this therapist.
He just made me feel not strange for feeling that way.
When I feel like the world's against me,
but also knowing you have somebody that, no matter what you go through,
no matter what goes on, they're always gonna love you
and they're always gonna care for you and they're always gonna be there for you,
that means way more to me than any fame,
than any monetary gain, anything like that.
- ♪ I'm still yours ♪
♪ Oh-oh ♪
One of the things that my parents always told me growing up was:
"Never date a musician or an actor, please."
And I was like, "Here's my first boyfriend."
And they were like, "Oh, great."
I'd say this is my first real girlfriend.
I'm actually in love.
You know how they always say, "Oh, no, you'll know, you'll just know"? Yeah.
I deal with a lot of weird anxieties,
and the one person that makes me feel like everything's okay is her.
When we first started dating, like, I wasn't, like, like, big or anything.
He actually had DM'd me on Instagram.
We ended up, like, FaceTiming for three months straight.
I'm super lucky to have LAROI
because he's also just been so considerate of me and my feelings.
We just help each other in that way.
What I've learned, which is what I didn't know,
is how important love is, you know?
How much it can change your life, and...
...that's something you don't want to lose.
He completely changed the course of my life,
and I think that I also completely changed the course of his life as well.
I was a sad man.
And then I met a sad girl.
And now we're a happy couple.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, are you embarrassed?
Are you embarrassed now?
- I told her she was embarrassed of me. - No, I'm not.
Would-would you agree with that? Are you embarrassed of me?
No.
- Sometimes.
What are you doing here, man?
- I don't know. - Got to keep him honest.
I just got on a plane. I'm here.
She just got on a plane 'cause I couldn't do it without her.
So, where do you think you guys will be in five years?
I hope that we'll still be together.
And even if not-- 'cause, you know, anything can happen in life--
I just... I just know how amazing of a person he is.
I don't think either of us would be in the place that we're at
without each other.
This has all been really insane for both of us.
♪ I'll do anything but let you go ♪
I remember one day--
I had this studio at my mom's house.
I was with my friend Charlie.
He went over to a keyboard and said,
"Turn this on, man. I just want to just play around."
LAROI was like, "Wait.
That's kind of... that's kind of cool. I-I think I have an idea for that.
Just maybe turn on the mic."
The first thing that came out of his mouth was:
♪ I do the same thing ♪
And that take, the first time he ever sang it,
is literally the one that's on the record.
♪ I do the same thing I told you that I never would...
I was like, "I'm-a ask, uh, Justin
maybe if he'd want to get on it."
And I was just like... in mind, I'm like,
"Yeah, no chance that'll happen.
It's Justin Bieber."
Boys, I think we're gonna run "Stay" real quick.
Today, we're dropping into "Stay"
by Kid LAROI featuring Justin Bieber.
Okay. Volume up, volume up.
"Stay" dropped, and he was just like...
- ♪ I do the same thing ♪
♪ I told you that I never would...
Now it's a whole different level.
♪ I know that I can't find nobody else as good as you ♪
♪ I need you to stay, need you to stay...
Dude, this guy's moving!
Oh, my... Yeah!
Kid LAROI, man, he's-he's carrying his own momentum.
- Thank you so much, man. You saved my life.
He means a lot to me.
♪ I'll be fucked up if you can't be right here ♪
This next song is the number one song in the world.
- It's called "Stay"!
♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh...
The Kid LAROI's F*ck Love 3 has gone number one.
- ♪ I'll be fucked up if you can't be right here ♪
Oh, I miss you so much.
How you doing?
You want to show me around your new crib?
How long have you been here?
- Like a month now. - Yeah?
Kitchen.
- So, yeah. - Sick.
Who showed you my music?
Tay was like, "Check out this dude.
He's, you know, making a splash."
And so my immediate thought, I was like, "He's got a cool vibe."
I started DM'ing, and I-I was just like,
"Yo, Justin Bieber just fucking DM'd me!
Let's fucking go!" I was like, "Yo, what the fuck do I tell him?
What do I tell him? What do I tell him?"
I was freaking out for like a whole day.
- It was kind of crazy. - That's hilarious.
The first time I actually called him, he was in the shower.
- FaceTime?
Yeah. He literally seen my call in the shower.
He got out of the shower-- halfway in the shower, halfway out of the shower--
and he answered the phone, and I was like,
"What's up, dawg? Like, you can call me when you're done showering."
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
The moment I met Justin, he was just all about positivity,
coming in here and, like, no-judgment zone, "Let's all have fun."
When you're singing,
believe everything you're saying while you're singing it.
It helps so much. Like, when you sing it and, like,
really think about what you're saying while you're singing it.
I'm sure you do that probably.
So, he plays me this song, "Stay," at my house.
Him on it by himself.
He was like, "I don't think I'm gonna use it for my album."
And I was like, "Well, if you don't use it, like, give it to me.
- Like, I'll use it. Like, this is a great song." - Yeah. Yeah.
I actually remember you telling me, "No, you got to put this on your thing.
- This is too good." - Yeah. Yeah.
Holy shit.
That's a fucking great song.
- You wrote that, bro. - Yeah.
That's fucking sick.
I knew that song was a smash when I first heard it.
Wow.
Dude, I'm so grateful we got this...
The VMAs, bro! Did you ever... dream you would be here?
Feel good about it? I do...
If you're in your head about the moment you fucked up,
then you're not gonna be able to keep going.
The way you just let it roll off you.
Be like, you know, like, I'm still...
They're here to see me, I'm here to see you.
The Justin thing, that was just euphoric.
I remember him being a little boy.
And I went to take him to the cinema to see the...
the tour when he'd wear all the-the purple.
And he looked at me.
And, actually, he got teary and he said to me,
"Mum, I'm gonna be like him one day."
You know, and...
Justin, of course, brought a huge element to the success with "Stay."
Shut the fuck up.
"Stay" just... number one again for a third week.
I just found that out.
That's sick.
Ready to move when you are.
I love you, too.
Love you.
- Love you. - Love you. Have a great show.
I will. I love you.
- London, are you ready?
Let's go! One, two, three, four!
Let's just discuss the things that you did in the course of that show.
You called the head of the label up.
Dave! Dave! Dave! Dave! Dave! Dave! Dave! Dave!
- You tried to make him stage-dive with you. - He's a fucking pussy.
My buddy Dave here is gonna jump into the crowd with me.
Then you threw up.
A milkshake was a terrible idea.
Milkshake was a terrible idea.
Then you went into the middle of your own mosh pit.
- ♪ Each one of them tryin' to get saved, shit ♪
Then you stage-dove again with someone's mother on the phone.
- Bye!
Good job.
Fucking hell, I love Britain.
Turn up!
♪ Me and my friends, we are not here for your bullshit ♪
♪ I don't care who you're cool with or where you went to school, kid ♪
We have a very, very special guest.
He's got the biggest tune on the planet right now.
It's "Stay," featuring his... his good friend Justin Bieber.
Do you have a tip for being Justin Bieber's friend?
Um...
♪ He said to me, "Look, I'm sorry..."
Let's talk about Justin Bieber.
Let's talk about how that friendship happened.
The Kid LAROI, everyone.
A world tour, maybe?
Is the rumor true that Bieber bought you a Rolex?
Does it matter to you which genre embraces you more?
When you play basketball, do you invite Justin?
Were you slipping into people's DMs?
Are you and Justin going back in the studio?
♪ Said he wanna go outside and to chop it up ♪
- ♪ I'm like, "Cough it up, bruh, is it not enough?" ♪
The blood vessels are really swollen.
So, these are bitter, angry and red.
They should be pearly white. Okay?
What are you smoking?
Weed, but, um...
Less smoking.
Super simple. It's like, if you... if you see--
But I'm not going deaf?
You're not going deaf today.
Little antibiotic, a little bit of steroid.
And I can start...
- Today. - All right.
I'll probably start in the morning just 'cause tonight might be a big one.
♪ I smoked some weed, took some Molly, can't stop myself ♪
♪ It's like I bleed, then I worry I cut myself ♪
♪ I said, yo, please, leave me lonely, leave me alone and lonely ♪
Last time we spoke was before "Stay"
and before the mixtape went number one.
What's it been like?
Um, stressful.
'Cause now I got to figure out what I'm doing next, you know?
Did it catch you totally off guard?
Yeah, it did.
I definitely didn't think it would be as big as it was, no.
I thought it might be, like, a cool little...
a cool, like, moment or, like, a building block,
and now it's just, like...
I got to really apply the pressure.
Whereas before, you could just kind of make music and put it out
and just see what's... you know, you just have it to your fans and whatever.
And I still can do that, I guess, but it's just different now
because now there's a whole thing of:
He's had this big song. Like, what's coming next?
You don't want to be the guy known that's just--
was on the song with Justin Bieber forever.
Only because I feel like I worked so hard
that it would just be kind of like a waste to just leave it at that.
When's the new album coming out?
Were you wearing boots? Do you wear cowboy boots, LAROI?
Release the album!
Hey, did... did they ask me if I wore cowboy boots?
- Yes.
The fuck was that about?
LAROI had a lot of success very quickly.
He deserves it. You know, it's all him.
♪ To you ♪
♪ Happy birthday, dear LAROI ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
You're gonna take over, bro.
You're gonna be better than I ever was.
I'm deadass, bro...
A lot of people, after they have a big song,
they're like, "I'm good now."
I'm just thinking, "Oh, man, now you can't fuck up."
I just got to make an insane album that people will love.
I always forget that he's a kid
because he carries himself in such a mature way.
He's got a lot on his plate.
It's a business, so there's a lot of people reaching at him,
trying to maximize profits.
I just imagine it like there's like 50 arms reaching at him,
trying to get him to do... do different things.
And so what I try to remind him of is, like,
all you really need to do and all that's gonna last
is worry about how the music sounds.
♪ And if I was to die right now ♪
That's what's gonna live in 50 years.
When I get these creative bursts,
I need to just do shit because there's times where
I just feel like I'm the worst artist in the world.
Like, I'm just like, "What am I doing?" So, when I get this,
I get so excited, and I'll start making shit,
- and I'm just like, "Fuck yeah."
He understands music
on a really broad spectrum.
I think that that, honestly, is one of the hardest things for him as an artist.
And he can do all of it.
Post is absolutely the same way.
Laroi!
You were created in a lab somewhere in Australia.
Thanks, man!
LAROI always looked up to Post.
I told Post, "You've got to meet LAROI. You would love this kid."
Dude, he's literally the cooler, faster, stronger, younger,
better singer version of me.
You know, that's the thing about LAROI.
He's so ambitious.
I could tell he was gonna be huge just upon meeting him.
He still hasn't even done a full album yet.
You think about the type of pressure that that puts on a kid at that age,
from the business side to the creative side.
The expectation is almost machinelike.
Once you get a little taste of it,
you're like, "That's really more than I can handle."
But every human is organic, and we're all people,
and we have bad days, and we have great days,
and we have days where we're exhausted,
and we have days where we're
- jacked up on Mountain Dew.
And it's physically draining, it's emotionally draining.
And it really kind of makes you hate your own music.
Not hate, but you're like, "I've heard this song like 10,000 times."
There was a period where I was like, "I don't want to do this."
But once you get out there, man,
that's what makes it worth it-- seeing people sing it back to you.
All right, let's get down to business.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, yeah.
Oh. What's up?
Nick. Nice to meet you, man.
- This is my dad. - Hey.
- Hey. What's going on? - How are you?
You tired?
I'm ready to do it again.
- - ♪ You cut out a piece of me ♪
♪ And now I bleed internally ♪
- ♪ Left here without you ♪ - ♪ No, no, no ♪
♪ Without you ♪
My dad, he was a singer.
- ♪ Baby ♪
Girl, I need you so much.
He was signed in the UK to Simon Cowell.
Yeah, the American Idol guy.
My career started off like Charlton's.
It was very high, fast,
bang, heading towards the heights.
Got to a certain point, I sort of went...
-
And I-I just kind of like flopped.
Recently, I've asked him, "Hey, what went wrong?"
And he told me something about a falling-out
with him and his manager and how he left him in the dirt.
- One thing led to another,
and shortly after, he was a petrol man.
One day, someone came past as he was putting petrol in their car and said,
"Hey, are you Nick Howard, that singer guy?"
Fame is not forever, and the reality is
people can like you one minute and turn on you in an instant.
I think about that stuff all the time.
I'm not gonna fuck it up. I'm definitely not gonna do that.
I mean...
I'm just really anxious.
I don't know, I just be feeling, like, defeated recently.
So, but, like, at the end of the day,
my mind got me this far, you know, believing in myself.
So I always check myself like, "Man, why are you stressed, man?
Like, just keep believing in yourself, you know."
And I haven't dropped music now in nine months.
"Thousand Miles" is next?
- "Thousand Miles" is next, yeah. - When's it gonna come out?
Ten days.
I always wonder how people are gonna look at this new stuff.
I think once I get this song out, I'll feel a lot of pressure off.
It's like, I remember that feeling when I was living in the countryside
and I was uploading videos on Facebook and be, like, freestyling
over YouTube beats and shit.
Just kids at school, people didn't understand the whole rap thing.
They're like, "You some shit. Like, man, what the fuck is this?"
I took everything off Facebook.
I was like, "I don't want to show anybody anymore."
Even still to this day, every time before a show,
I literally remember that shit
and I'm like, "Oh, what if people don't fuck with it?"
- Well, can I just say hi to everyone? - Yo, keep walking!
Clear. Come with me.
- Hey, how are you? - Good. How are you?
I'm good.
Great. Let's go. Three-two-four.
Let's go. Three-two-four.
Get to our boss here.
So many people!
I can't believe they came all this way, man.
Yo, what you just saw is not what's on the other side.
- What do you mean? - There's another 400 that way.
- We pushed the line.
That "Thousand Miles" video is about to drop any minute now.
Now, if y'all want to see this video, make some noise!
- They're going dumb. They're going-- - Whoo!
The-the video's gonna play, and then you're gonna go right on.
- ♪ I know that look on your face ♪
♪ You're comin' my way, you're comin' my way tonight ♪
♪ Here goes another mistake I know I'm gonna make ♪
♪ I know I'm gonna make tonight...
#1 new music Friday.
Whoo!
♪ There's nothin' left to say...
Dude. Almost 200,000 on Spotify already.
- Shut up. - On Spotify.
♪ Oh, I wish I let it go, you're better off alone ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm about to fuck it up with you ♪
♪ I know that look on your face ♪
♪ You're comin' my way...
- This song came out eight minutes ago.
♪ And I will never change ♪
♪ If I was you, if I was you, then I would stay ♪
♪ A thousand miles away ♪
♪ A thousand miles away, yeah ♪
- One, two, three, four!
♪ What's the call? In love with the money, it's "Fuck 'em all" ♪
♪ Heard you fucked on my bro, I can't fuck with ya ♪
♪ I don't want her unless she gon' do the dawgs ♪
♪ I got everything I ever prayed for ♪
♪ Li'l shawty gon' suck it right through the drawers ♪
♪ R.I.P. to the ones I forever lost ♪
♪ R.I.P. to the money, I ran it up, let's go ♪
♪ If she bad, Michael Jack', I'm-a let her know ♪
♪ And if she do how she say, then I can't let her go ♪
♪ I can't let her go, I can't let her go ♪
All right.
What the fuck is up, guys?
I love you guys so much for being here.
I've been going through a lot of shit,
and I want to say seeing all you guys here makes me so emotional.
It makes me remember why I do this shit.
- I love you! -
- Same game? - Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna start letting him capture me if he... if he doesn't fucking hurry up.
'Cause I'm getting bored.
Bro, why are you... why are you being disrespectful, dude?
When I play him,
he makes... he makes his move first, I go bam, up, get him.
Got him first game.
I literally said that he-he only beat me once,
- he changed from five to four to three to two. - LAROI, LAROI, LAROI, LAROI...
- The second game, I beat him. - Hello, Austin?
- The second game-- - Austin, Austin.
- The second game-- - Shut up. I'm on a-- Austin, I'm on a--
I'm on a real call. Shut the fuck up.
- The second game, I beat him. - Um, yeah, hello?
- S-Second... second... - Yeah, hey, uh, yeah.
Second day I beat him! Second day I beat him!
- And no, no, wait, second-- - I'm, uh... I'm, uh, gonna need you to come and check out my brother.
I think he's got amnesia.
'Cause he's... 'cause he's forgetting the truth.
- No. Second--
Hey, man.
Are you excited?
Absolutely, 100%.
Ooh! Me, too!
Australia.
Ooh. Wow.
When he left, he just turned 15, running around Redfern and Waterloo.
He's going back as a superstar.
Hi.
For me, keeping his head together,
getting him through that first arena show is everything.
But I'm nervous for him. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't.
Since we left there, there's been lots of changes in his life.
Whoo! That is a big plane. Wow.
And here's Auz that just pulled up in a Porsche.
Hi!
High five, boy. Whoo!
- And there's Dad. - Yo.
- Looking like a real superstar. - What-what's with this?
I'm documenting.
Look at that plane.
- There's Mum. - There's Ma. She's a--
Look it, she's a superstar.
- I love you.
Love you, too.
I'm on my way back home.
I mean, I'm excited 'cause I'm doing an arena tour, which is pretty cool.
It is our pleasure to welcome you to Sydney,
where the local time is approximately 6:36 on the 20th of May.
Definitely, when I'm there, it's gonna be super weird.
My old school's right here on the left.
- This one here, right?
Yep, right there. APGS. Australian Performing Arts Grammar School.
And we used to go to the Glebe mall, um, Broadway mall up here.
This lane right here. So, down... down that lane,
to the left, and then right, I had a...
I-I lived in a little house there for like... a couple months.
Wow, bro, we're literally back. That's fucking crazy.
LAROI, you'll have people seated all the way back to here, too.
- Wow. - Like, all the way back--
And-and this will all be mosh pit on the floor, right?
- Yeah, yeah. - Oh, my God.
- So, this is the... - All right.
We're in Sydney at, uh, Qudos Bank Arena.
And, uh, we've got two sold-out shows here.
Hopefully, if everything goes to plan,
two years from now, we'll be doing the stadium next door.
- Just wanted to document that.
♪ Oh-oh, whoa-oh, oh-oh, whoa-oh ♪
♪ Without you, without you ♪
Okay, and-and let's not, 'cause I can't see anything.
I think what I'm gonna do, too, with these, though,
on this side, I'll like-- "Hey, dude," I'll come down,
and then I'm-a probably come down to the barrier halfway through the song,
come down here and hit the top, like, on that second verse part,
come down, get on top of this thing
and then just get 'em hyped like that, too.
- It looks good. - Yeah, no, it looks really good.
People aren't gonna be disappointed, right?
- No. It's really good. - Okay.
Okay, now the concert. You're here for the big shows.
- What if no one shows up? - Oh, yeah, I get--
Oh, I get scared all the time of that stuff, you know?
Yeah, that was my biggest fear, especially when they told me
the schedule for the, um, a-arena tour, and they were like,
"Yeah, so we're gonna have you in these arenas in Australia."
And I literally looked at 'em, I was like, "Are you sure?" Like, you know, I--
What, you didn't think you could fill an arena?
No.
Bro, do you read the paper or anything, or are you just in your own--
Seeing how big the general admission mosh pit area is
was a trip and a half.
It's like, "Damn, all these people,
and they're all coming for me." You know?
My dream three or four years ago was just to sell out Enmore Theatre,
which is like 1,500 people.
I'm not the support.
I'm the main act.
And two nights in a row was even crazier.
And even just, like, getting mobbed on Pitt Street. It's crazy.
And, like, people are telling us, "Oh, we can't wait for the show."
It's an event here, you know?
That shit feels insane, out of this world,
crazy, because I just feel like me.
I just feel like myself, and even though it's always been my dream
and this is kind of everything I ever wanted,
it still feels weird because, at the end of the day,
there's still that .1% or whatever that is in your head like,
"Ah, you know, but, like, come on.
Are you actually gonna be able to achieve that?"
I always wanted to be, like, "the hometown hero" or whatever,
and then coming back, that's what it feels like.
It's kind of crazy.
- Really good to see you. - Oh, of course.
- Thanks for having me. - LAROI!
- So nice. - Good to see you.
Good to see you guys. How you doing?
- Do you remember me? - Yeah, of course. Thank you so much.
Hey, man, how you doing, bro?
- I'm starting to make money. - How much?
When I first moved here, um,
this is the first place I came, and they took care of me.
They always used to take me out onto, um, excursions
to just keep us busy and entertained,
and I think that was a really important part of me
growing up and definitely, like, staying out of trouble.
So I think it's important to keep this place going, and it's helping
young kids' lives and helping 'em get on the right path and do well.
And so anything that I can kind of do to help and support that, I'm all for it.
And so, you're here, this is your homecoming.
- Yeah. - You're playing arenas.
- Yeah. - And you don't even have an album out yet.
- No, yeah. - Are you excited?
I am. I'm excited. I'm really nervous.
- Are you? - Really nervous, yeah.
Well, we're all on your side, so don't be.
- Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. - We'll be... We love you.
- We love you so much. - Thank you. Thank you.
Okay, well, I'll see you soon.
- Bye! - Thank you.
It definitely feels completely different
- to the last time that I came. - Incredible.
Just the way we're moving
with the security, everything, I feel like a tourist.
Last time I was here, I was just walking around and shit.
I feel back at home. It's just different.
I don't know how to explain it.
Can we actually please turn left here and, uh, just head towards Chinatown?
We're gonna go to a-a little Japanese spot that, um... that we used to go to.
Copy that.
Right up here, I think.
Yeah, so then just go left and left again, please.
- Shaq, you know my friend? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- His favorite spot. - Really?
- Yeah, yeah. - Wow.
I was probably 14 when I met Saik.
We all hung out, like, this group of friends,
and he loved to do a bunch of wild shit like train surf.
In Sydney, the number of train surfers doubled last year to 110.
According to the union, most long-term train drivers
will experience at least one fatality on the tracks.
Yeah, I guess he was, like, train surfing in a tunnel.
And the tunnel was dark, so he couldn't see.
Dying so young, I mean, it just... it sucks, you know?
It was like nine months after Juice.
Damn, what's up?
They closed down?
No way they closed this down.
Wow.
No way.
Yeah, that was it right there.
They closed down permanently. That's crazy.
That's crazy, bro.
It makes me sad, bro.
I went to the arena yesterday
and the day before,
and it was crazy.
And your McDonald's meal came out today.
And the McDonald's meal came out today. Let's go.
I'm Kid LAROI, and this is my Macca's meal.
And now you can get it, too.
- Six of the Kid LAROI meals, please. - Oh.
- Is that all for today? - That's all. Thank you very much.
Can we please get 20 Kid LAROI meals?
- Twenty? That'll be a few minutes. - Yes.
Okay, it's all good.
♪ I know that look on your face ♪
♪ You're comin' my way, you're comin' my way tonight ♪
♪ Here goes another mistake I know I'm gonna make ♪
- ♪ I know I'm gonna make... - Let me hear you louder!
I am happy to be here, and I am really grateful and, you know, the rest.
Excuse me, sir, do you want some nuggets?
- Yes, please. - It's all right. They're free.
- Thank you. - They're Kid LAROI nuggets.
- Oh! - Lovely to meet you.
- What the fuck?
I woke up today and felt completely happy,
and I was like, "Wow, I feel so good today."
I'm ready to crush this show, ready to go crazy.
- See? Now you got two in one. - Thank you.
This is the biggest moment of my life.
Oh, my God, yes. Yes.
Okay, a couple more.
I'm starting to learn maybe happiness just comes in small doses.
Let's go! Let's go!
Yes, it's the Kid LAROI pen! Kid LAROI pen!
Most people go through their whole lives and never learn that, I think,
which maybe does better for them.
Because they're always chasing the happiness.
'Cause I feel like maybe you are happier when you're chasing the happiness.
Get to a point you learn that happiness isn't this 24/7 thing.
No matter what you do, no matter how life goes,
you're always gonna have shit times, you know?
I mean, the only way you go is just you keep going.
There's beauty in the struggle.
It's not all bad.
But how do you turn struggle into beauty?
It's not even about turning it into.
It's... what is already there.
- ♪ Fly ♪
♪ Up, up, here we go, go, up, up, here we go, go ♪
- ♪ Let's fly ♪ - ♪ Fly, fly, fly, fly ♪
♪ Up, up, here we go, go...
This is the first of many.
We've been through a whole lot for those that's been here.
Now it's time to get out here
and show the world what this kid is all about.
This is his city.
- We got to go shut this shit down. - Amen.
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
One, two, two, one, two, three, go!
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
This is what home looks like, man.
If I'm gonna be honest, as good as Australia was...
...to get to that status, I've had to make certain sacrifices and do certain things.
And so you just weigh up what means more to you.
In all honesty, maybe I'm just feeling a little lost.
I guess I'm just going through what maybe
most people my age are going through.
But I guess the difference is
this is the time for people to figure out what they want to do in life.
I already know what I'm doing in life.
I have a job, a family
and a lot of people I support and stuff like that,
so I kind of like don't really have time to be a...
to be, like, a lost teenager.
I'm just lost with a job.
- ♪ Can we go back to how it was ♪
♪ Before my pride got in between us? ♪
♪ Go ahead and hit me where it hurts ♪
♪ Because at least then I'll feel something ♪
♪ Screaming in my face ♪
♪ Kicked me out your place ♪
♪ I got nowhere to go ♪
♪ Can we find love again? ♪
♪ Is this time the end? ♪
♪ Tell me, how many more tears will drop ♪
♪ Till you hit me with "Can we talk?" ♪
♪ And try love again ♪
♪ Can we find love again? ♪
- You look good, Charlton. - Thank you.
We got a long, long career ahead of us
with this young man right here.
So, again, let's go kill this last one.
- Let's go, baby. Let's go, baby. - Yes, sir.
Go "finale" on three. One, two, three.
Finale!
Oftentimes, I don't realize the impact
that you can make as a musician or an artist,
and that's something that makes me keep going is knowing that
there's people out there that might need that.
It'd almost be selfish of me to just stop doing that because I'm tired.
We love you! We love you! We love you!
I love my fans.
Love them to death, and I'd say, every single show, every single thing,
I wouldn't be here without my fans,
and I genuinely believe that with all my heart.
Kid LAROI!
- Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI! Kid LAROI!
- What up, man? - Hi.
How you doing? Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too.
Sorry, I'm a little nervous.
Oh, don't be nervous, man.
- What's your name? - My name's Ethan.
- What's up, Ethan? - I'm-I'm a really big fan.
- Ethan! - Yes, sir!
Before I came, I was practicing all the songs.
- What's your favorite? - My favorite one is "Let Her Go."
"Let Her Go"? Ooh, that one's a good choice.
Twelve-hour drive up, and that's all we heard.
I didn't want other people to dictate my happiness,
because I'm the only one that has to... has to live with that, you know?
- Same thing for me. - Yeah, no one else...
no one else has to... no one else has to... has to be you
and live with the decisions you make in life,
- the things that you want to do, so... - Yeah.
...you got to just do whatever you want
because you're the only one that has to live with that.
- Yeah. - You know what I'm saying?
So don't let other people dictate your happiness.
That's a... that's a... that's a thing I think a lot of people...
a lot of people never... never learn in life.
But it's a really, really important life trick.
I think, at least. At least it helped me.
- Thank you for the advice. - Dude, of course.
Um, also, I just want to let you know, um,
when you said your music, like, it makes you happy
when you're writing it, um,
- when I listen to it, it makes me happy. - Aw.
Like, whenever I'm having a rough day, I just listen to your songs.
Aw. Thanks, man. That means a lot.
Thank you. Can I have a hug?
Dude, that's cool. And that's the other cool thing about music.
And the influence that you have,
and-and I think hearing that stuff always makes me mindful and aware
to be cautious of that even when making music,
because I think it's such a... such a powerful tool
and something that a lot of...
that has a lot of influence on not just people but on the world.
- Yeah. - I'm glad that you feel that
and understand that as well.
- Yeah. - That's a really, really good thing.
Though don't be offended because, um, I listen to other music, too.
- Oh, it's okay, man.
Is-is it okay if I head out now? I'm getting really tired.
- Oh, of course. Yeah. - It's past my bedtime.
I say this every time I come out here, but...
I want to say it one more time.
Thank you to every single person in the building right now
for not only coming here tonight
but also making my fucking dream come true.
This is everything I ever wanted to do since I was a little fucking kid,
- so thank you very much.
- I want to say...
...everybody, including myself, in here,
we all have our... we all have our own problems
and struggles and different trials and shit that we're, uh...
that we're all faced with on a daily basis, and...
I want you to know that none of you are fucking alone in dealing with that
because you have me and you have everybody else in this fucking room,
'cause we're all one big fucking family.
And I, uh...
I can't stress that enough.
I want to also say--
I love you!
Well, shit.
If-if, uh, no one else in this building
has got you or is there for you...
just know LAROI's got you, motherfucker!
- Okay, copy that.
♪ If she bad, Michael Jack', I'm-a let her know ♪
♪ And if she do how she say...
Wait. But I'm here.
I definitely wake up some days and I'm just like, "Damn, this is fucking crazy."
When I first came out here, I'm 15,
I realized that I was immersing myself in a world that is someone else's.
I feel in control of my life right now.
I think a lot of it has to do with growing up and I'm figuring out who I am.
Oh, hi.
What's up, La'bro?
- Ready? - Nothing, little bro.
Tall king...
That's a pro. I called it, too.
I was like, "What happened? What's this?"
Love you so much.
I love you, too.
- You ready to rock? - Yes, sir.
- How's it looking out there? - Looking good. It's your show.
Let's go.
Let's fucking go, bro.
- ♪ I don't know if ♪
♪ We just crossed the line ♪
♪ Because ♪
♪ I don't even know what just happened ♪
♪ Everything I said last night was lies ♪
♪ Everything I said tonight ♪
♪ 'Cause I don't even know what just happened ♪
Album! Album!
It's coming.
- Um... - Album! Album!
Album! Album! Album! Album!
What's the plan right now? When will it drop?
Mm, that's a good question. Um...
- ♪ What's the move? ♪
♪ Tell me what it is...
We have, like, the base of what's going on,
but we're just waiting on some features.
♪ If we had the chance ♪
♪ I know you've been at ♪
Then boom, goes into the verse.
♪ Twisted through the morning...
I think the reason why I was maybe anxious before
is 'cause I was kind of unsure about the music.
♪ I'm very stressed, pop a lot of X...
But I'm not unsure anymore.
I'm not really worried about the pressure aspect of doing well or not.
The thing about this song that's really cool is I played it
to a whole bunch of different people who like--
- All different styles and shit? - All different shit, and everyone points at that one: "Whoa, that one's good."
It's like a universal, like, "Oh, that shit's good."
- Yeah, they're like, "Oh, that's hard." - Yeah, yeah.
On this album, I just made music that I like to listen to.
- ♪ So tell me what got in the way ♪
♪ And how I thought it was good that it changed ♪
♪ And I'm sayin' I'm sorry again ♪
♪ Oh, I could never get out of my way ♪
♪ Hit the store and your wardrobe's replaced ♪
♪ And still all that you do is complain ♪
♪ You keep on throwin' it back in my face ♪
♪ And now you're tellin' me, "I need some space," so...
- Whoa. Amazing. - I wanted to make...
this project about all the changes I'm going through in my life.
And a lot of this, I'm experiencing for the first time.
So, what's been going on lately?
Um...
We broke up. Yeah.
She's about to go to college.
I feel like it was the only stable thing I had in my life
over these past three years.
My relationship was a lot of inspiration to make music.
- ♪ Console me that love comes and goes ♪
♪ Love comes and goes ♪
I'll say it like this. I love her.
I'll always love her.
I don't think it's best for us to be together,
so... yeah.
If I'm gonna give people this album, I have to give them
an honest thing.
♪ All those memories we made are burnin' in my brain ♪
- I love it. - I think it's great.
Yeah, dude.
And, like, I would've been raised
completely differently and whatever, but yeah, that was my first time.
- Oh, my God. Wow.
Can't believe it.
You press "bounce," brother.
- It's done! Album done! - All right. Let's go.
There we go!
- It's been fun. - Love you.
- Love you guys. - Love you.
We're gonna have many celebrations.
- We're fucking done. - Done.
Final words?
Fried.
What's your hope for the future?
Making the best music possible.
That's where I'm directing my hunger, and that's where I'm directing my desires.
It's not really fame anymore, 'cause it's overrated.
Making the best music is not overrated, though, you know?
As cool as it might be to be, like, the biggest artist in the world,
maybe that's not everything that I necessarily want.
And I know I kind of said that when I was younger-- that I wanted to be that--
but I don't think I want to be that anymore.
I don't want to be expected to be perfect.
I don't want to be expected to make all the right moves.
I don't want to be expected to be like a superhero.
I'm just gonna be myself.
I'm a 20-year-old who's just trying to figure it out still.
♪ Growing up, I used to wanna be my Uncle Wayne ♪
♪ Until I saw his body laying in the grave, rest in peace ♪
♪ Growing up, I used to want a Jeep Wrangler ♪
♪ Until I got to drive a Range ♪
♪ Growing up, I used to have a lot of friends, fuck 'em all ♪
♪ Until I saw the money change 'em ♪
♪ Growing up, I used to want a lot of hoes...
Pretty... pretty stoked about this, uh... about this new hair situation.
- Yeah, it looks... It's a vibe. - Yeah, thanks, thanks.
I walked into a party the other day, first time I went out in a long time.
Got like four different compliments.
Someone told me, they were like, um,
"Hey, man, not saying you looked bad before,
but now you look great." I was...
- I was like, "Thank you.
That's very sweet of you. Thank you very much."
♪ I'm married to the game for this diamond ring ♪
♪ And I spend more time with her...
I'm wearing these cool socks right now, which I'm pretty stoked about.
I put 'em on for this interview, actually.
I'd be lying if I said I was wearing these before the cameras came out.
♪ Always stressin' 'bout my mama, but I know that God got her ♪
♪ I'm stressin' out more now than what I did at rock bottom...
So, I can say "come"?
Can I... can I say "ho"?
- No.
What if it's a garden ho?
♪ Can't make a wife out of a garden ho ♪
♪ I guess that's how it goes ♪
♪ Oh...
We gave each other tattoos.
I gave him a cowboy with some, um, clogs and a big old cowboy hat.
I got this one that Post did on me.
Um, and then I did one on him, too.
He gave me this tattoo.
It says, "I have to shit."
Yeah. It's probably one of my favorite ones,
just 'cause he's the best.
And it looked really bad, but he loves it.
Now it is on my body forever.
♪ Shit, you probably know me better than I know myself ♪
♪ And you're the reason why...
I just got an alien
feeding a chocolate chip cookie to the spaceship.
I just think, like, you know, like, an alien comes to Earth
and they're like, "Man, what are we doing here? This place is terrible.
But, oh, my God, we found this crazy thing that they have."
And it's a chocolate chip cookie, and they're just like, "Bro, check this out."
♪ Money that I make ♪
♪ You tell me you won't ever let me make the same mistakes ♪
♪ You makin' sure we had it good...
- Aw. Come on, buddy.
♪ Of the apartment we was livin' in, in Kings Cross...
Uh, we're keeping three songs,
and we scrapped the rest of the album, and we're starting again.
- No, please! No, please! - We're just gonna rewrite that shit.
- No, this is crazy! - That's crazy.
♪ And me and you was sleepin' on the separate ends of Louie's couch...
I got drunk again one night, tattooed this on me.
"I would never get a tattoo drunk at a party."
The worst tattoo I ever got in my entire life.
All right, interview's done.
♪ To the hospital, I thought you weren't comin' back ♪
♪ Next mornin', walked in just like nothing happened ♪
♪ You'd never admit the problems that you had ♪
♪ And tell me that I'm bein' crazy if I ever asked ♪
♪ Now I got my own problems and I understand ♪
♪ 'Cause I try to protect you from anything bad ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ I don't know why I can't believe it ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ Oh, nothin' ever is in season, oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ I thought my nightmares were my dreams ♪
♪ Ooh, I don't believe ♪
♪ This ain't what it seems, no, no ♪