Aussie hip hop sensation the Kid LAROI (not our capitalisation) is getting the biographical documentary treatment, which is pretty impressive for someone who’s been around for about a minute and a half.
When is Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named LAROI being released in Australia?
Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named LAROI is now streaming in Australia exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named LAROI
What is Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named LAROI about?
Directed by “vertically integrated content studio” OBB Media’s founder, Michael B. Ratner, who also helmed a genuinely staggering number of Justin Bieber videos, Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named LAROI follows the young man born Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard from the mean streets of Redfern in Sydney’s Inner West to global success and considerably classier digs in Los Angeles.
Charting LAROI’s meteoric rise to international success off the back of his 2021 duet with Justin Bieber, “Stay”, the film sees him deal with the sudden influx of fame and fortune as he prepares for his first world tour and studio album, while also contending with the loss of his mentor, rapper Juice WRLD, who died of an overdose in 2019.
The cast of Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named LAROI
The Kid LAROI, Justin Bieber, and apparently Post Malone shows up as well. And that’s all the information at hand.
Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named LAROI trailer
Why we’re excited about Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named LAROI
Hmm. Well, look, we know all these things are pretty nakedly self-serving, right? Carefully managed quasi-confessionals designed to set the record straight for posterity—the recent Robbie Williams documentary is a prime example.
This offering is like that only moreso, given that LAROI’s a bit young to be making a play for living legend status, and that production house OBB Media and its founder seem to be more keyed into brand management than anything within a parsec of what we might call art. Still, if you’re a fan you’ll probably like it.
