AccuRadio Song Of The Day-The Kid LAROI

Artist:The Kid LAROI f/Justin Bieber

Song:Stay

Mixtape:F*ck Love 3+: Over You Deluxe Edition

Australian teen rapper The Kid LAROI used Justin Bieber's star power to top the worldwide charts with the 2021 single Stay. You know what they say. Everything Bieber touches turns to Platinum. Like many rappers, The Kid LAROI seems limited and I don't expect him to have longevity. He's already fading. He was born Charlton Howard Aug. 17, 2003 in Waterloo, Australia which is a suburb of Sydney. His parents are in the music business but not as performers. His father is a record producer and recording engineer and his mother is a talent manager. They separated when Howard was four years old. Howard got into rap by listening to his mother's record collection. He's a big Kanye West fan. After his parents separated, Howard's uncle became a father figure until his 2015 murder. They moved to a small town to live with his grandparents but that didn't work out and they moved back to Sydney. Howard was hustling to make contacts. But the big one was producer Khaled Rohaim who he still works with today. Howard signed a development deal with Sony Music Australia in 2017 and released an EP in 2018. After he opened for Juice Wrld's Australian tour, Howard went to live with him in Los Angeles. He starts turning up as a featured performer until he released the 2020 mixtape F*ck Love. The lead single So Done is Howard's first top ten hit in Australia. His remix of Without You featuring Miley Cyrus reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The interest in this song started on Tik Tok. And that was followed by Stay with Justin Bieber which topped the charts everywhere. That is Howard's peak to date. You can get Stay on the deluxe edition of F*ck You which is available as a digital download. The main producer was Norwegian DJ Cashmere Cat along with Charlie Puth, Omar Fedi and Blake Slatkin. Slatkin works a lot with Bieber. Since then Howard has faded. He released the album The First Time in 2023. None of the singles from the album charted. So now what? Who knows? Maybe Howard is a hasbeen at age 20. But I think the success of Stay was due to Bieber and Howard was not memorable. It was a fluke. Here's the video for Stay by The Kid LAROI featuring Justin Bieber.