Source: Jack Harlow and Dua Lipa Are ‘Hanging Out’
The stars were spotted together at Variety’s Hitmakers brunch earlier this month
Jack Harlow may have created a relationship entirely on his own.
Earlier this month, the “First Class” rapper was seen in public for the first time with Dua Lipa at Variety’s Hitmakers brunch. The sighting sparked interest on social media because he released his song “Dua Lipa” — in which he seems to shoot his shot with the pop star — earlier this year.
A source said that Harlow, 24, and Lipa, 27, have been “hanging out” since then.
Page Six of the New York Post was the first to break the story. According to the site, the singers also had lunch together in New York City after her performance at iHeartRadio’s Z100 Jingle Ball on Friday.
“Dua Lipa” was featured on the rapper’s latest studio album Come Home the Kids Miss You. During an interview in May on the radio show The Breakfast Club, the “Like a Blade of Grass” rapper opened up about getting her approval for the track.
“Dua Lipa, I’m tryna do more with her than do a feature / I checked the web, they out here chewin’ me up, f— it,” he raps on the song. “Fadeaway, I lift that Luka knee up, bucket / I heard from someone you said you could be us, nothing.”
While appearing on the radio show, Harlow was asked if Lipa has responded to the song since the album dropped. “Not publicly,” the rapper said at the time, noting she’d acknowledged it privately. “I wanted to get her blessing, so I FaceTimed her and played it for her because I didn’t want her to be blindsided by that or feel creeped out or anything.”
“If she had said, ‘Yo, I hate it. I don’t want it to come out,’ it wouldn’t have come out,” continued Harlow before detailing the conversation they had about the track on FaceTime.
“She was like, ‘Oh, I mean it’s not my song. I suppose it’s OK,'” the “First Class” performer recalled. “She was just kinda thrown off and she just kinda let it go.”
On whether or not Harlow truly has a crush on Lipa, the rapper said, “I admire her,” and revealed their conversations have become “less awkward” since she heard the song. “I think we’re good. We’ll see how the record does,” he continued. “I think when the song comes out, she’ll grow to appreciate it even more.”
Lipa and Trevor Noah were previously linked after they were pictured having dinner in New York City in September. Despite the claims, a source at the time commented that “they’re simply pals.”
Prior to Noah, the “Levitating” singer and ex-Anwar Hadid decided to split up in December. “Dua and Anwar are currently taking a break from their romance and spending time apart,” according to the source. “They’re working on it right now.” The couple had been dating for over two years.
In April 2021, Harlow was linked to TikTok star Addison Rae, but she soon debunked the allegations by tweeting, “I’m single.”