The track appears on his recent album Jackman
Jack Harlow retreats from the spotlight in the video for “Denver,” a deep cut from his third studio album Jackman, released earlier this year. Directed by Eliel Ford, the video centers the rapper in spaces of solitude that are comforting at times and wholly isolating at others. “Ignorance is bliss and so is bein’ underground,” he raps in the song’s opening verse. “Cause it was fun when we were known less.”
Jackman followed the release of Harlow’s second album Come Home the Kids Miss You, an unexpected foray into the pop sphere that spawned the biggest hit of his career with “First Class.” With the new album, the rapper reeled it in and set the scene for his reflections on fame and maturity with his home state of Kentucky as the backdrop. But “Denver,” naturally, took Harlow to the mountains of Colorado.
In the video, he looks out across picturesque landscapes under clouded skies. Unlike his other clips, where he’s surrounded his crew from back home or the entourage that culminated around his spike in popularity, Harlow spends most of “Denver” alone. “I’ve become so vain and insecure ’bout everything,” he admits. “I feel all this pressure to live up to what they tell me I’m gon’ be/So I isolate myself, you can’t help me, it’s on me.”
In hotel rooms, he sprawls out his thoughts on loose pieces of paper and tosses them in the trash. He opens the curtains to let some light in, only to close them when he begins to feel the exposure creeping back in. Even in a strip club, the hip-hop heartthrob is distracted, lost in his own thoughts. At the venue Casino Cabaret, he lays down on the stage with no audience in the room to feed him their energy.
It’ll be a different scene when he embarks on the six-city No Place Like Home tour, which will only make stops throughout Kentucky. The tour will begin on Friday, Nov. 24 in Owensboro and will wrap up on Sunday, Dec. 3 in Lexington.