The Kid LAROI reveals his "first" everything! From his first impression of Justin Bieber to his first celebrity crush being Britney Spears, The Kid LAROI spills all the tea. How was his first Grammys experience? What was his first date like? How was it like meeting Jungkook for "TOO MUCH"?
Director: Frank Cosgriff
Director of Photography: Jack Belsile
Editor: Lucy Nebeker
Talent: The Kid LAROI
Producer: Madison Coffey
Line Producer: Jen Santos
Associate Producer: Rafael Vasquez
Production Manager: James Pipitone
Production Coordinator: Tania Jones
Talent Booker: Jenna Caldwell
Camera Operator: Brittany Berger
Gaffer: Niklas Moller
Audio Engineer: Michael Guggino
Production Assistant: Lyla Neely, Sonia Butt
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Erica Dillman
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Graphics Supervisor: Ross Rackin
Director: Frank Cosgriff
Director of Photography: Jack Belsile
Editor: Lucy Nebeker
Talent: The Kid LAROI
Producer: Madison Coffey
Line Producer: Jen Santos
Associate Producer: Rafael Vasquez
Production Manager: James Pipitone
Production Coordinator: Tania Jones
Talent Booker: Jenna Caldwell
Camera Operator: Brittany Berger
Gaffer: Niklas Moller
Audio Engineer: Michael Guggino
Production Assistant: Lyla Neely, Sonia Butt
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Erica Dillman
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Graphics Supervisor: Ross Rackin
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00:00 First time that I hung out with Jungkook,
00:03 the music video shoot for "Too Much,"
00:04 that was the first time we actually got to properly hang.
00:07 It's interesting, right, 'cause he doesn't speak a lot of English.
00:09 I obviously don't speak Korean, so...
00:12 So it was like an interesting hang,
00:14 'cause a lot of it is just like vibes and like energy.
00:16 And we obviously had like a translator.
00:18 We laughed a lot during that time.
00:20 We laughed a lot, made a lot of jokes.
00:22 Hi, Team Vogue. It's the Kid LAROI,
00:24 and these are some of my firsts.
00:28 I think the first time that I ever introduced myself
00:31 was that was probably at like a...
00:33 Probably at like a meeting or something.
00:35 Even still, I don't like go up to people and be like,
00:37 "Hi, my name is the Kid LAROI."
00:39 My first impression of Justin...
00:42 I just remember being like, "Wow, he's really nice."
00:45 I mean, we met in the studio,
00:47 but it was kind of like a listening party situation.
00:49 He DMed me on Instagram.
00:51 I just remember that being like really like crazy for me,
00:54 especially at the time.
00:55 I remember he like hit me.
00:56 He was like, "Hey, I have this song that I really see you on."
00:58 And that was like a big moment for me.
01:00 The first time we actually hung was
01:02 when we played basketball together at his house.
01:04 I would get a shot in or something.
01:06 He'd just like pat me on the back, be like, "Good job."
01:08 But like if I missed one, he'd be like,
01:10 "Come on, buddy, like next time.
01:11 Like, you have it, you have it.
01:13 Like, keep going."
01:14 And he was just really encouraging.
01:15 Do you want to know my current impression?
01:17 I love him.
01:19 Still.
01:20 Actually, that would just be funny if I was like,
01:23 "Current impression, he's the worst."
01:25 You know what I'm saying?
01:26 That'd be derby.
01:26 That'd be funny.
01:27 But unfortunately, no, fortunately,
01:29 what am I saying?
01:30 Fortunately, he is the greatest still.
01:32 So I heard Central C's song "Loading"
01:37 when it came out in 2020, I believe.
01:40 I think I reached out after that
01:41 and we just kind of stayed cool.
01:43 He came out at Reading Leeds with me in 2021,
01:46 which was a really cool moment.
01:47 That was really dope.
01:48 And from there, we just kind of like stayed in contact,
01:50 whatever, and I was just always trying
01:52 to find the right record for him.
01:54 And I really liked the idea of this one
01:55 'cause it was like fun and fresh
01:58 and something that we both had never really done before.
02:02 So I was just like, "It'd be cool."
02:04 I'm trying to practice like not using my phone
02:06 in the morning at all,
02:07 'cause I always notice when I wake up
02:09 and look directly at my phone,
02:10 it just creates a bad day for me.
02:13 So who the hell wants to wake up
02:15 and look at like, beep, yeah, no.
02:18 But it happens, unfortunately.
02:20 My breakfast consists of, every morning, by the way,
02:23 this is like ritual.
02:24 It's my favorite meal of the day.
02:26 Egg whites, turkey bacon, or like sausage,
02:29 sourdough toast, and a cup of black coffee.
02:32 And like sometimes like breakfast potatoes,
02:34 if I'm like at a restaurant.
02:35 First time that I hung out with Jungkook,
02:38 it was at the music video shoot for "2MUCH."
02:41 That was the first time we actually got to properly hang.
02:44 It's interesting, right?
02:44 'Cause he doesn't speak a lot of English.
02:46 I obviously don't speak Korean.
02:48 So it was like an interesting hang
02:51 'cause a lot of it is just like vibes and like energy.
02:53 And we obviously had like a translator and stuff.
02:56 He's just like super, super kind, super sweet.
02:58 Like we laughed a lot during that time.
03:00 We laughed a lot, made a lot of jokes.
03:02 I had him try a Vegemite for the first time,
03:05 pranked him a little bit, told him it was chocolate.
03:08 And that was funny.
03:09 He was like, what the hell?
03:12 He was like, this doesn't taste like chocolate.
03:13 It tastes like veggies.
03:15 And I was like, ha.
03:16 We laughed a lot.
03:17 He was very kind and yeah, cool dude.
03:21 Cool ass dude.
03:22 I mean, I drink lots of water.
03:23 I mean, it's kind of boring.
03:24 The last tour that we just went on,
03:26 the first thing that we would do after the show
03:28 is we kind of had this like Nerf gun war going on
03:32 throughout the entire tour.
03:33 So like I would get off stage
03:35 and I'd instantly go to the room and load up my Nerf gun
03:38 'cause we just couldn't be caught lacking.
03:40 That was like the whole thing.
03:42 At any point of the day,
03:43 someone could come in and just light you up
03:46 with the Nerf gun.
03:47 So we would go right to it.
03:49 Like after the show, we'd get right to it
03:51 and then probably go get some food and yeah.
03:54 If we're talking about Australia,
03:56 I wasn't like super big or anything.
03:58 I just had some stuff on like SoundCloud
04:00 and stuff like that.
04:01 But if we're talking about like in America,
04:04 I think I was walking through the mall with my buddy, Omar.
04:08 And it was right after my first ever "Cole Bennett" video
04:10 was put out, a group of kids like recognized me.
04:13 And I just remember being like, holy shit.
04:15 Like this was like literally like days after it came out.
04:18 Like that's when I felt like, oh my God, dude,
04:20 people are starting to know who I am.
04:21 This is really crazy.
04:22 I don't know if I like get as hyped about like followers
04:25 and stuff anymore.
04:26 It's just more so like when people like the music,
04:28 I think that's when I get the most excited.
04:30 I mean, the first big purchase,
04:32 well, I rented a,
04:34 the moment I signed a record deal,
04:35 I rented a house back home for a couple of months.
04:38 But in terms of like something I bought, like and had,
04:41 I went to this store in Sydney
04:43 and I bought like three pairs of Amiri jeans.
04:45 That was like, whoa, I can't believe
04:48 I just spent this much money on jeans.
04:50 Like that's crazy.
04:51 I think it was MC6.
04:53 That was my first ever stage name.
04:56 And it was just 'cause MC like rapper.
04:58 And I always like, it was like, I don't know,
05:00 I've been kind of like trying to rap
05:02 since I was six years old.
05:03 As funny as that sounds like, you know, just, yeah.
05:05 That's when I started like loving music.
05:07 I think I still remember like the first ever thing
05:10 that I wrote.
05:11 I set a bar in there about like,
05:13 you need a cool exhibit to come and pimp your ride.
05:16 'Cause like, that was like my favorite show
05:17 at the time when I was a kid.
05:18 I just remember that bar being a standout.
05:21 I was really proud of it.
05:22 So the first time that I've been to the Grammys
05:25 was last year and I was having a bad week.
05:28 I was having an even worse day
05:30 and I just was like going through the motions
05:33 and just like not feeling it.
05:34 So it was honestly like as cool as it is
05:37 to go to the Grammys.
05:38 I was just like in such a thing that I just like wasn't.
05:43 I feel like I wasn't present.
05:46 I wasn't taking it in.
05:47 So like I didn't have the best experience.
05:50 But so yeah, there it is, I guess.
05:54 The brutally honest version of my first time
05:56 at the Grammys, yeah.
05:57 Anytime you go to any award show,
05:59 it's like overwhelming.
06:00 You're like put up against other people
06:02 and other peers and stuff.
06:03 And everyone's feeling a little like vulnerable
06:05 or a little like insecure.
06:06 At least I know I do 100%.
06:08 And like some of the people I've talked to,
06:09 you're in a whole nother mind frame.
06:11 You're doing interviews,
06:12 you're doing all this other stuff.
06:12 You're like overwhelmed and it's just,
06:14 you're not sometimes feeling your best
06:16 and you're feeling anxious about like awards
06:19 or people choosing your stuff or whatever it is.
06:22 And so that in itself is like an overwhelming thing.
06:26 And then just like not being in the right mindset for that.
06:28 It's just like a combination for like disaster.
06:32 My first date.
06:33 It depends what you count as a date.
06:37 I think like something that could be counted
06:39 as like a date date is probably go-karts I think.
06:42 I love go-karting.
06:43 I'm sure I like went on like mini dates or something.
06:46 But like something that felt like an actual date
06:48 was probably yeah, go and go-karting.
06:51 Now 16.
06:52 I was like super young.
06:53 I might've been like five years old or something.
06:55 And I remember like watching a Britney Spears music video.
06:59 And that was the first time that I was like, whoa.
07:02 Like I was like, wow.
07:03 I think I'm in love with Britney Spears.
07:06 The first part of my nighttime routine is brushing my teeth.
07:11 And then I wash my face
07:12 and then I do like a little skincare situation.
07:15 I've been trying to read books recently,
07:18 but like I'm so my attention span
07:21 is like trying to work on that.
07:24 I listen to a lot of music.
07:25 I've been watching Entourage a lot recently.
07:28 I love that show.
07:29 The show is insane.
07:29 I like crushed like five seasons of that in like weeks.
07:35 So celebrate probably.
07:37 Celebrate music being out.
07:39 Yeah.
07:39 I just have some people over at the house or something.
07:42 I go to a restaurant.
07:45 I don't know.
07:46 Thank you, Teen Vogue for having me.
07:47 I am the Kid LAROI and these were my first.
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