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Apparently Ben Marshall’s impression of Jack Harlow on Saturday Night Live over the weekend was so convincing, it even tricked the rapper’s family.
On Monday (April 13), Harlow took to his Instagram Stories to reveal that his aunt sent him a text message saying she was “proud of me for going on SNL and addressing everything.”
The “everything” Harlow’s aunt was referencing? The controversy around his most recent album, last month’s Monica, for which Harlow told The New York Times that he consciously “got Blacker” with his sound. “I love Black music,” he told the Times. “I love the sound of Black music. And, of course, I’m hyper-aware of the politics of today, that safer landing spot that a lot of my white contemporaries have found.”
SNL poked fun at the situation during a segment on Weekend Update that saw Marshall — wearing the exact outfit Harlow wore to December’s Marty Supreme film premiere — invoking some of the funniest nicknames social media had given the artist in the wake of the controversy, including “LL Cool Whip,” “D’Anglo,” “Jay-ZZ Top” and “Lil Wayne’s World.”
In his Monday post, Harlow marveled at the fact that someone so close to him could be fooled by the over-the-top impression. “My aunt that I am related to actually thought that was me,” Harlow wrote over a picture of himself with his hair in a black bonnet, looking in disbelief.
Next up for Harlow: The Monica Tour, kicking off Aug. 4 at the Brooklyn Paramount in New York and wrapping Sept. 21 at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California.
Watch the Weekend Update segment and see Harlow’s response below.
