Last night, Aussies tuned in to 60 Minutes to hear from Aussie rapper The Kid LAROI about his incredible journey from living in a Sydney housing commission to becoming a megastar. The episode raked in a Total TV National Reach of 1,695,000 and a Total TV National Average Audience of 722,000 for Nine.
The young rapper made it clear he’s not anything like many might expect him to be.
“Some people have told me I look like a dickhead from my Instagram,” he said.
But in stark contrast to his charismatic and energetic presence on stage and Instagram, in reality, he’s a humble, anxious, and honest person, he revealed to viewers in the episode.
“I tend to go into a character a little bit, I think, when I’m on stage,” he said.
Charlton Howard – or The Kid Laroi, as we know him – opened up about his mental health struggles and his constant striving for perfection.
He lived for a time in a Sydney housing commission, surrounded by drug use, poverty and tragedy.
When he was just 12, his uncle was murdered, and he didn’t escape grief with a more lavish lifestyle. His mentor, rapper Juice WRLD, died of a drug overdose before one of The Kid Laroi’s childhood friends was killed train surfing.
“There is no such thing as perfection,” he said.
“Whenever I hear other people talking about how they feel and normalising their feelings and normalising vulnerability, it helps me a lot.
“Often everyone’s feeling the same or similar things, and we’re just not talking about it because we’re embarrassed.
“The more we kind of normalise just having those conversations and being more open to them, it just becomes more normal and more human, right?”
Also on Nine, The Block continues to do the numbers, raking in a Total TV National Reach of 2,650,000 and a Total TV National Average Audience of 1,527,000.
Over on Seven, Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story brought in a Total TV National Reach of 1,302,000.
Dessert Masters brought in a Total TV National Reach of 761,000 for Channel 10.
